At its Intel Tech Tour in Israel, the firm provided some important data about its 13th generation Raptor Lake CPUs, which are scheduled to be publicly announced around a month from now.
The new Raptor Lake desktop CPU will outperform Alder Lake by up to 41% in multi-threaded workloads and up to 15% in single-threaded applications.
Also, Raptor Lake will have the first SKU to run at up to 6GHz stock clock speed. Intel also claims the chip will reach world-record-breaking 8GHz, supposedly with the use of liquid nitrogen. Also, it would need to run as high as 8.7GHz for it to be the actual world record. This would likely be a Core i9-13900KS.
Intel’s aim is clear – get the bragging rights over AMD’s upcoming Ryzen 7000 series, which will sport a 5.7GHz clock max.
Intel’s 13th gen processors will become fully official at the end of this month and launch on October 20. They’ll run on Intel 7 – a refined version of the Alder Lake 10nm node. They’ll bring up to 24 cores and 32 threads with up to 8 performance cores and up to 16 efficiency cores.
Raptor Lake-S is a series of 65W–125W desktop CPUs, whereas Raptor-P is a series of 15W–45W laptop processors. Expect dual-channel DDR5-5600 memory and PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSD capability.