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Intel 13th-Gen Raptor Lake specs, rumored release date, benchmarks and more

Intel's 13th-Gen Raptor Lake processors will bring more cores, more connectivity, a revamped core architecture, support for PCIe 5.0 SSDs, and possibly even a rumored 6.0 GHz peak boost clock to bear. Alder Lake righted the ship. These chips brought the best of Intel's newly re-worked 10nm process, now re-named 'Intel 7,' enabling higher clock rates and lower power consumption, paving the way for Raptor Lake. Intel will etch the Raptor Lake processors on a refined version of that same process node and pair it with its newly-revamped x86 hybrid architecture, a design that combines a mix of larger high-performance cores paired with smaller high-efficiency cores. Like its predecessor, Raptor Lake will also support disruptive new features like PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 but preserves DDR4 support for less-expensive build options. Raptor Lake will also drop right into existing motherboards to offer an upgrade path for Alder Lake users, but there will be new 700-series motherboards at launch that offer better connectivity options. Intel is also introducing more CPU overclock features for Raptor Lake, too.

The Raptor Lake chips will have Performance Cores (P-Cores) with a new microarchitecture, rumored to be named Raptor Cove, designed to handle single- and lightly-threaded tasks, like gaming and productivity workloads. The Efficiency Cores (E-Cores) also bear signs of a revamped microarchitecture, but these cores are still rumored to have the Gracemont design. These cores step in for heavily-threaded workloads, background tasks, and multi-tasking. We know the flagship gets eight more E-Cores, but we aren't sure how Intel will increase the number of cores for the Raptor Lake Core i7 and i5 models — the former might see an increase to eight E-Cores, but we have no concrete indication of that yet.

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