Intel Raptor Lake: everything we know and what we want to see
Intel Raptor Lake promises cores on cores on cores
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IntelRaptor Lake is the follow-up to theAlder Lakeseries of CPUs, the latter of which is the architecture behind the chips in ourIntel Core i9-12900K and Core i5-12600K review. This launch is particularly important because it’ll determine whether Intel can compete against theAMD Zen 4processors.
Intelannounced their new 13th-generation processorson September 27, the same day that theAMDRyzen 7000-series went on sale. As usual, Intel is pretty tight-lipped about a release date and pricing, but we should be hearing more about these sooner rather than later. Team Blue made some serious boasts about the new processors' performance, which we’ll need to verify ourselves once we get the new chips in for review.
In the meantime, however, Intel has supplied us with some concrete details, and they can certainly give a resurgent AMD a good brushing back if Raptor Lake is as good as Intel makes them out to be. So what do we know so far? Lets dig into the known details and look at what we should expect from Intel Raptor Lake.
Cut to the Chase
Intel Raptor Lake release date
The initial launch lineup of Intel Raptor Lake will go on sale October 20, and will include the following processors:
Intel Raptor Lake price
The pricing of the initial launch lineup of Intel Raptor Lake has also been revealed for both K and KF variants, and are as follows:
Intel Raptor Lake specs
We’ve gotten a lot more info from Intel during the Raptor Lake launch announcement about the initial launch lineup’s specs, including core counts, core speeds, L3 cache details, and more.
Obviously, we won’t know how these fare against AMD’s Ryzen 7000 series launch lineup until we test them, but Intel has a real high bar to clear given how incredible theAMD Ryzen 9 7950XandAMD Ryzen 7 7700Xperformed in our reviews, and as we test the remaining chips, we’ll have a more complete picture of what Intel is up against when these chips go on sale.
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