Intel Raptor Lake: At 6 GHz, up to 41 percent faster than Alder Lake

Also interesting is that the 6GHz peak is a whopping 300MHz faster than the 5.7GHz for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors, but Intel hasn’t announced which product will hit that peak speed. We’re also not sure if a 6GHz chip will appear with the first wave of chips or if it’s a special “KS” model. Intel also claimed that Raptor Lake will have a 15 percent increase in single-threaded performance and a 41 percent increase in multi-threaded performance compared to Alder Lake as measured by SPECintrate_2017, and an overall “40 percent performance scaling “.

The 6 GHz clock frequency and the 8 GHz world record are only shown in passing in the timeline above. The Israel Development Center (IDC) has been instrumental in developing a long line of Intel products dating back to the 8088 that started it all in 1979.

Raptor Lake presentation most likely at the Intel Innovation event

All of this culminates, at least for now, in the 13th generation Raptor Lake processors that Intel will be officially announcing soon, although the company obviously has many other designs in the pipeline, such as Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, and other processors on the horizon Company roadmaps. “Soon” means September 27th: Intel will most likely be publicly presenting the new Raptor Lake series on this day – as part of the event “Intel innovation“. Exactly on the day that the new Ryzen 7000 CPUs are supposed to hit the market – just coincidentally, of course.

Aside from the teaser about the 6GHz peak operating clock speeds out of the box and the new 8GHz overclocking record for Raptor Lake (although we’re not sure if that’s the overall world record or just a world record for Intel’s 7 chips), that The company has not yet announced any further details, which we already knew before the official presentation on September 27th. allowed to speak.
Small changes to P-Core, none to E-Core or graphics
The upcoming Raptor Lake processor architecture will have to lead Intel’s battle against AMD’s Zen 4 architecture until Meteor Lake emerges in late 2023. It’s the result of a long back-and-forth involving multiple departments and teams to create something out of an architecture and process that resembles Alder Lake in many ways. However, there will be few important changes. “We have a very small change on the Raptor Lake core, on the P core,” says Intel’s Isic Silas, “we have no changes on the E cores at all, no graphics changes.”

Intel also shares much more information about its design and validation process, saying that the Raptor Lake’s development cycle was eight months shorter due to backwards compatibility with Alder Lake. This quick turnaround time was necessary because the Raptor Lake chips weren’t on the roadmap as recently as two years ago – Intel only put the chip on the roadmap because a “future product” was delayed (believed to be Meteor Lake, although that’s not confirmed). is).