[PLUS] Preview: Intel Raptor Lake

Raptor Lake Revealed!

After AMD pushed ahead at the end of August and was the first of the two CPU giants to present its new Zen 4-based Raphael CPUs, the Ryzen 7000 series, and now launch them on the market, Intel now took the reins of action in hand and presented new processors. It’s about Intel’s 13th generation of desktop CPUs, codenamed Raptor Lake. This generation is manufactured in an improved Intel 7 process (10 nm), replaces Alder Lake from 2021 and comes up with all sorts of improvements and innovations – but only to a certain extent, but more on that later – it’s just that much said: It has to do with the partitioning of the L2 cache.

Intel’s K processors and their KF siblings, which will do without integrated graphics units, will start again. The flagship is the Core i9-13900K, which Intel also calls the “world’s fastest desktop processor” on its presentation slides – a title that the CPU has to earn in the exchange of blows with the Ryzen 7000. The 13900K is followed by the K processors of the i7 and i5 series, the Core i7-13700K and the Core i5-13600K. According to their own statements, Intel wants to cover the high-end (i9), the upper class (i7) and the middle class (i5) with the three processor divisions. For the entry-level class, the small i3 processors will be added next year, which will probably be at the CES 2023 in January. With the desktop CPUs of the 13th generation, Intel packs significantly more efficient cores into the equipment, so that there are 24 cores (8 P and 16 E cores) and 32 threads on the Core i9-13900K to admire.

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The following topics can be found in the article:

• Six CPUs are coming in 2022
• More cache, more performance
• platform support
• “Alder Lake Refresh”
• Prognosis

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