On stage throughout Intel’s Expertise Tour 2022 in Israel, an govt teased that there might be a thirteenth Gen Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processor that’s able to operating at 6GHz with inventory settings. Furthermore, the identical SKU has been confirmed by Intel as being efficiently overclocked to 8GHz utilizing excessive cooling.
Releasing a processor with a inventory clock of 6GHz might be a milestone for Intel, and the business as a complete. AMD’s finest upcoming Ryzen 7000 processor might be a full 300MHz slower. Nonetheless, we don’t know what Intel product might be launched with these clock speeds. It could be a top-end area of interest fanatic chip like a painstakingly sorted ‘KS’ product, which might come months within the wake of the first designs releasing.
Whichever Raptor Lake you may get your arms on, there are good points available, even at iso-clock speeds. Intel claims that the brand new thirteenth Gen CPUs will supply a generation-to-generation efficiency improve of 15% for single-threaded workloads, and 41% for multi-threaded workloads. These figures come from SPECintrate_2017 testing.
The above picture got here by way of HardwareLuxx’s editor Andreas Schilling’s Tweet in regards to the headlining 6GHz inventory clocks. Dr Ian Cutress confirmed one other fascinating reality from the Israel leg of the Intel Tech Tour. Based on the ex-Anandtech CPU editor, Raptor Lake was solely created as a result of Intel administration knew that Meteor Lake wasn’t going to be prepared in time. For a ‘filler’ product, we reckon Intel has completed a very good job with Raptor Lake, and the stats talked about within the information above again this up (see clock velocity milestones and efficiency over Alder Lake).
The story goes that Intel turned conscious that it was going to want Raptor Lake two years in the past. That is partly the explanation why the thirteenth Gen Core iGPU and I/O die aren’t modified from twelfth Gen. Admittedly, Meteor Lake is a really vital step to make, bringing in a mess of advances just like the Intel 4 manufacturing course of, new tiled structure, the tGPU made by TSMC, and built-in AI acceleration integration.
Intel is predicted to launch its first thirteenth Gen Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processors in mid- to late-October.
