Intel Teases 6 GHz Raptor Lake at Inventory, 8 GHz Overclocking World Report

We’re right here in Israel for Intel’s Know-how Tour 2022, the place the corporate is sharing new details about its newest merchandise, a lot of it underneath embargo till a later date. Nonetheless, the corporate did share a slide touting that Raptor Lake is able to working at 6GHz at inventory settings and that it has set a world overclocking document at 8GHz – clearly with liquid nitrogen (this is our deep dive on the Thirteenth-Gen Intel processors). Intel additionally shared spectacular efficiency projections for single- and multi-thread efficiency.

Notably, the height of 6 GHz is 300 MHz sooner than the 5.7 GHz for AMD’s Ryzen 7000 processors, however Intel hasn’t introduced which product will hit that peak pace. We additionally aren’t positive if a 6GHz chip will arrive with the primary wave of chips or be a particular version ‘KS’ mannequin. Intel additionally claimed that Raptor Lake can have a 15% achieve in single-threaded efficiency and a 41% achieve in multi-threaded, as measured by SPECintrate_2017 and in comparison with Alder Lake, and an total ‘40% efficiency scaling.’

You possibly can see the 6GHz inventory clocks and eight GHz world document listed within the final entry within the above timeline. The Israel Improvement Heart (IDC) has been the design engine behind a protracted line of Intel merchandise spanning again to the 8088 that began all of it again in 1979 (this is a glance again). That lineup spans till immediately, encompassing well-known names like Pentium MXX, Banias, Sandy Bridge, and plenty of others. 

All of this culminates, not less than for now, with the Thirteenth-gen Raptor Lake processors that Intel will formally announce quickly, although the corporate clearly has many different designs within the pipeline, like Meteor Lake, Lunar Lake, and different processors on the firm’s roadmaps. 

Apart from the teaser in regards to the 6 GHz peak working clocks at inventory and the brand new 8 GHz overclocking document for Raptor Lake (although we aren’t positive if it’s the total world document or merely a world document for Intel’s 10nm chips), the corporate hasn’t shared extra particulars but. Naturally, extra info will comply with through the NDA’d conferences held over the subsequent a number of days, and we’ll share that info quickly. We’re notably to study pricing and energy consumption particulars, although we already know many of the particulars of the specs. You possibly can see these in our Raptor Lake all we all know.

Intel can be sharing way more details about its design and validation course of, with the slide above touting that the Raptor Lake improvement cycle was eight months shorter because of backward compatibility with Alder Lake.  

This fast turnaround time was obligatory as a result of the Raptor Lake chips weren’t on the roadmap as little as two years in the past — Intel solely added the chip to its roadmap as a result of a ‘future product’ was delayed (presumably Meteor Lake, although we have not confirmed).

Intel has been very forthcoming with particulars thus far, sharing fascinating particulars just like the picture above — as an illustration, this handwritten guidelines is the primary listing of design targets for Alder Lake.