Extremely anticipated: Intel’s upcoming Raptor Lake processors face stiff competitors with AMD’s Ryzen 7000 collection. Beforehand-leaked Cinebench outcomes point out the flagship i9-13900K may carry out equally to the Ryzen 9 7950X. Nonetheless, AMD’s choices may come out on high in energy effectivity on account of switching to a extra superior TSMC 5nm course of node.
Although we’re nonetheless weeks away from Intel’s Thirteenth-gen Core CPUs announcement, Igor’s LAB has printed some leaked slides confirming the total specs of the desktop Raptor Lake lineup. The corporate will initially launch six unlocked SKUs, with the cheaper non-Ok processors doubtless arriving subsequent 12 months round CES.
These Raptor Lake CPUs characteristic a number of enhancements over their Alder Lake counterparts, together with greater frequencies, twice the quantity of E-cores, and extra L2 and L3 cache. They’re going to even have extra superior reminiscence controllers, with official help for DDR5-5600 (vs. AL’s DDR5-4800) and DDR4-3200 reminiscence.
In response to the chart, Intel’s flagship Core i9-13900K(F) will likely be a 24-core CPU (8P + 16E) that may enhance as much as 5.8Ghz out of the field if it has sufficient thermal headroom. The corporate charges base energy (PL1) at a conservative 125W, whereas most Turbo energy (PL2) stands at 253W (vs. the 12900K’s 241 W).
Choosing an i7-13700K(F) will get you fewer cores (8P + 8E), lowered cache, and a decrease 5.4GHz max frequency for the P-cores. Rated energy consumption is an identical to the i9, doubtless on account of binning. Lastly, the i5-13600K(F) provides 14 cores (6P + 8E), even much less cache, and a 5.1GHz max P-core frequency. Its most turbo energy additionally will get lowered to 181W.
Like their predecessors, Raptor Lake processors will supply 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes and stay appropriate will 600-series motherboards. Nonetheless, high-end Z790 motherboards may include an “Excessive Efficiency Mode” toggle within the BIOS, permitting the brand new processors to attract as much as 350W and additional bettering efficiency when you’ve got an sufficient cooling resolution. The Z790 chipset additionally options extra PCIe 4.0 lanes and as much as one additional 20Gbps USB port in comparison with Z690.
Intel will doubtless announce Raptor Lake at its Innovation occasion on September 27, the identical day AMD plans to launch its Zen 4 CPUs. At this level, the one particulars we’re lacking are pricing and availability, though earlier leaks recommended Workforce Blue’s processors may begin delivery on October 20.