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Recently Intel announced the specifications of the 13th gen Raptor Lake processors in the Pax West event. Many upgrades were introduced in the new generation processors, some of which are revolutionary and beat the competing Ryzen 7000 series processors.
"Raptor Lake" is nothing but Intel's codename for the upcoming 13th-generation of Intel Core processors. It is expected to be launched in the fall of 2022 with mobile parts at the end of 2022. Like Alder Lake, Raptor Lake will also be fabricated with Intel's Intel 7 processors.
Upgrades in the 13th gen Raptor Lake processors
(1) Faster operating frequencies
Intel introduced a 6 GHz frequency in the 13th generation processors which are 300MHz faster than the 5.7 GHz AMD's Ryzen 7000.
The company also shared that the Intel processors created a world record by touching the 8 GHz frequency peak with liquid nitrogen. However, it is still unknown which processor will record that speed. Enhanced overclocking features will also be introduced. To break the world record Intel must find 700 MHz more which is manageable for the i9 13th Gen Processor.
In comparison, the recently launched Ryzen 7000 has a top clock speed of 5.7 GHz which is still a lot impressive, but Intel's 6GHz processors will surely beat it.
(2) Support for up to DDR5-5600 memory
The Raptor Lake processors will support up to DDR5 5600 MHz memory. This will lead to support of higher capacities of RAM.
The change in memory standards can cause fewer stutters in video games. For budget-friendly users, support for DDR4 memory is also available.
They are said to support a dual-channel or up to 4 DIMMs of DDR5-5600 memory. Also, Intel's 13th gen Raptor Lake will be using the 13 nm manufacturing process, so it is interesting to see which power consumption and heat output we will be seeing.
(3) Increased L2 and L3 cache
The i9 13900K comes with 36MB Cache L2 whereas the 12th gen was 30MB. The higher the Cache, the higher the performance in the game.
(4) Increased core count
Raptor Lake processors do support 8 P-Cores + 16 E-Coresand thus a total of 24 Cores and 32 Threads. And there will be certain variants that will feature double E-Cores. And Flagship SKUs will feature 125W PL1 TDP.
The desktop series will be using the Raptor Lake-S Series with 65W-125W processors, whereas the Laptop series will come with Raptor-P Series with a power range of 15W-45W. Also, they will have support for PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs.
(5) New motherboards to harness the maximum out of Raptor Lake
With the processor, Z790, H770, and B760 Motherboards will also be available. And it also features 20 PCIe Gen 5 lanes with AI PCIe M.2 technology.
Further, Intel also claimed that single-threaded Raptor Lake will feature a 15% gain, and double-threaded will feature almost 41% performance gain compared to Alder Lake.
Conclusion
Intel mistakenly listed three CPUs, namely, Intel Core i9-13900K, the Core i7-13700K, and the Core i5-13600K on their website for a brief amount of time, but instantly removed it.
The company will share more details regarding the chips in the Intel Tech Tour 2022. On Sept 28th, Intel will likely perform a full reveal of the processors. For now, these are just leaks, so better wait for the complete final announcement from Intel.
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