Intel suggests Raptor Lake features 6 GHz CPU stock, envisioned to set 8 GHz overclocking world report

Highly predicted: Intel has been teasing its upcoming 13th-gen Raptor Lake CPUs with a couple of engaging announcements. It claims the processors will be the 1st to operate at 6 GHz at inventory, and that they have presently set a "world overclocking document" of 8 GHz.

Workforce blue gave us a peek at Raptor Lake in the course of the Intel Tech Tour 2022 in Israel. A single slide confirmed that Intel is looking to conquer rival AMD in conditions of clock speeds with Raptor Lake. We know that the Ryzen 9 7950X is clocked up to 5.7 GHz, but Intel says its future chips can conquer that by 300 MHz with a 6 GHz design.

Intel by no means mentioned which Raptor Lake SKU would have the 6 GHz stock velocity or when it would arrive. Although it could be the flagship Main i9-13900K, which modern leaks propose will complete in the same way to the Ryzen 9 7950X, that certain 24-main (8P + 16E) CPU is explained to strike 5.8 GHz, suggesting the 6 GHz frequency might be reserved for a KS product like the Core i9-12900KS.

The slide also claims that Raptor Lake has previously been overclocked up to 8 GHz using liquid nitrogen. Intel suggests this is an OC world document, even though that almost certainly will come with some caveats as 8.7 GHz is the in general world file.

Intel also reported that Raptor Lake gives a 15% uplift for single-threaded workloads and 41% for multi-threaded operate.

Like Alder Lake, Raptor Lake combines General performance (P) and Efficiency (E) cores. When the E cores are dependent on the same Gracemont cores as Alder Lake, the P cores are now Raptor Cove as opposed to the final generation's Golden Cove.

In addition to the better frequencies, Raptor Lake is anticipated to provide two times the volume of E-cores and extra L2 and L3 cache in comparison to Alder Lake, although the additional state-of-the-art memory controllers will bring official assistance for DDR5-5600 (as opposed to Alder Lake's DDR5-4800) and DDR4-3200 memory.

Intel will be hoping the Raptor Lake CPUs can aid it get back some of the consumer self-confidence it is shedding by way of the Arc Alchemist GPU launch—the firm recently experienced to deny it was shutting the division down, the 2nd time it is had to challenge such a assertion. But with so a lot hoopla encompassing Zen 4, Chipzilla is likely to have a battle on its fingers in the next-gen-processor sector.

Intel is set to announce the Raptor Lake CPUs at the Innovation event on September 27. The processors are predicted to start in Oct.

Intel slide credit history: Andreas Schilling/HardwareLuxx