We begin to see the nose of the future CPU Raptor Lake which should logically come out in the second part of this year. For the record, some people think that Raptor Lake would be a simple “refresh” of Alder Lake but several leaks seem to confirm for a while that the “refresh” will be much deeper… The i9-13900K spotted here could reinforce this hypothesis.
24 Cores and 32 Threads for the next i9 Raptor Lake ?
The main evolution on this 13th generation will concern the arrival of Raptor Cove as performance cores, which will always cohabit with Gracemont efficient cores. However, the latter will benefit from several improvements. Another important improvement will come from the arrival of a more substantial L2 cache, thus improving performance in games. Finally, the overall frequency of this generation is also expected to increase. The Raptor Lake-S chips will also support faster DDR5 memory speeds and it seems that DDR4 support will still be possible even though we have some conflicting information on the subject.
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The Core i9 leaked here would be a test sample so still relatively far from its final version. The frequencies mentioned are therefore not really valuable to get an idea of the final version. However, with this new leak, we can now project ourselves and envisage a range articulated in this form:
- Intel Core i9 K-Series (8 Golden + 16 Grace) = 24 cores / 32 threads / 36 MB
- Intel Core i7 K-Series (8 Golden + 8 Grace) = 16 cores / 24 threads / 30 MB
- Intel Core i5 K-Series (6 Golden + 8 Grace) = 14 cores / 20 threads / 24 MB
- Intel Core i5 S-Series (6 Golden + 4 Grace) = 10 cores / 16 threads / 21 MB
- Intel Core i3 S-Series (4 Golden + 0 Grace) = 4 cores / 8 threads / 12 MB
- Intel Pentium S-Series (2 Golden + 0 Grace) = 2 cores / 4 threads / 6 MB
If these configurations are confirmed, the gain should be much more significant than what a simple refresh could bring…
