Intel has demonstrated a slide revealing the detailed capabilities of its next-generation Raptor Lake desktop platform. A few of the particulars about Intel’s thirteenth Era Core processors and supporting platforms have been identified for a while, and this slide simply confirms just a few of the numerous particulars we have already printed in our Raptor Lake all-we-know article.
Intel held its 1H 22 NAS workshop in Shenzhen, China, the place it revealed particulars of its NAS-related plan. The Raptor Lake-S Platform Overview slide made it to Baidu (opens in new tab), found by Twitter person HXL (opens in new tab).
As we have already coated, Intel’s thirteenth Era Core ‘Raptor Lake-S’ processor will enhance core depend in comparison with Alder Lake-S by rising the variety of energy-efficient Gracemont cores from eight to 16. Against this, the variety of high-performance Raptor Cove cores will stay at as much as eight items. In the meantime, Intel’s next-generation CPUs will achieve assist for DDR5-5600 reminiscence, which can increase the processors’ single-thread efficiency. Nevertheless, for individuals who don’t wish to spend money on DDR5, Intel will retain assist for DDR4-3200 reminiscence, which is unsurprising as Raptor Lake-S can be suitable with Intel’s present LGA1700 platforms.
Relating to enter/output capabilities, Raptor Lake processors will function 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes, 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes, and eight DMI 4.0 hyperlinks to connect with the chipset. The 16 PCIe Gen5 lanes assist bifurcation to get a PCIe Gen5 x8 interconnection to a GPU and two PCIe Gen5 x4 interconnections to SSDs. In consequence, one Raptor Lake-S CPU can deal with as much as three SSDs straight connected to it. It’s unclear why Intel determined to maintain PCIe Gen4 x4 devoted interconnection for M.2 SSDs. Nonetheless, it could have one thing to do with the need to take care of compatibility with present LGA1700 platforms which might be validated just for PCIe Gen4 x4.
In the case of Intel’s 700-series chipsets for Raptor Lake-S processors, it is going to proceed to assist PCIe 3.0/4.0 interconnections, 2.5GbE (exterior MAC is required), Wi-Fi 6E CNV, SATA, and USB 3.0 Gen 1/Gen 2/Gen 2×2 interfaces. In the meantime, to assist Thunderbolt 4, Intel recommends that PC makers equip their machines with its Maple Ridge exterior controller (USB4-compliant).
Intel’s twelfth Era Core ‘Alder Lake-S’ platform introduced many new applied sciences and options (hybrid CPU design, DDR5, PCIe Gen5) to the desktop market. The Raptor Lake-S platform may be thought-about a comparatively minor improve, although it does increase the variety of PCIe 4.0 lanes from the chipset to twenty.
We have already shared all of those particulars in our Raptor Lake roundup. These chips will compete with AMD’s Ryzen 7000 chips after they arrive later this 12 months.
