Again a two-step launch, with mobile chips that would only arrive in the fourth quarter.
Last week, Intel slipped in a few words regarding its thirteenth generation Core, codenamed Raptor Lake. Like some Alder Lake chips, these will benefit from a hybrid architecture with two types of CPU cores; only the maximum configurations will be 24 cores / 32 threads thanks to a number of E-cores multiplied by two (up to 16 E-Cores). Intel hasn’t given a specific launch date yet, but Raptor Lake processors are expected to arrive in late 2022. However, according to Moore’s Law is Dead, the company has decided to move the release forward. a few months: this would rather be scheduled for the third quarter.
MLID thinks Raptor Lake desktop processors will debut as early as July, August or September. Remember that the first Alder Lake processors, the K models, have been available since November 2021, but the bulk of the troops have only been there since January.
Regarding Raptor Lake processors for laptops, MLID expects a launch during the fourth quarter of 2022.
Note that this change of schedule might be motivated by the movements of the competitor: he says to himself that AMD would also launch its Ryzen 7000 “Raphael” in the summer.
A 32-thread Raptor Lake CPU heats up in the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark
A performance increase of between 8 and 15% in single-core
MLID also delivers its predictions regarding generational performance gains. According to him, compared to Alder Lake, Raptor Lake will allow increases of between 8 and 15% in single-core, between 30 and 40% in multi-core (it is assumed that the gains in multi-core advanced here include the increase in CPI as well as the eight additional E-cores).
The Raptor Lake desktop processors will retain the LGA1700 socket and Intel 7 engraving inaugurated by the Alder Lake. They should normally be compatible with 600 series motherboards.
| Series | Alder Lake | Raptor Lake | Meteor Lake |
| Generation Intel Core | 12th generation | 13th generation | 14th generation |
| Socket | LGA1700 | LGA1700 | To be determined |
| Manufacturing node | Intel 7 | Intel 7 | Intel 4 |
| Architecture P-Core | Golden Cove | Raptor Cove | Redwood Cove |
| Architecture E-Core | Gracemont | Gracemont | Crestmont |
| Graphic architecture | Gen12.2 | Gen12.2 | Gen 12.7 |
| Maximum number of cores CPU | 16 (8C + 8c) | 24 (8C+16c) | To be determined |
| memory media | DDR4 / DDR5-4800 | DDR4 / DDR5-5600 | DDR5 |
| PCIe Gen | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 | PCIe 5.0 |
| Release date | T4 2021 | T3 2022? | T2 2023 ? |
Source : Moore’s Law is Dead via TechPowerUp
