Just like any other year Intel has once again revealed about the launch of the successor of the previous Alder Lake CPUs, now Intel made a showcase at the Investor Meeting 2022 about the new upcoming 13th Generation Raptor Lake CPUs to tackle the upcoming AMD Ryzen 7000 series CPUs.
Intel didn't told anything about the performance increase in this generation of CPU but leaks say that there would be atleast upto 30% increase in the CPU performance. The release date and price are still a Mistry but lot of specs are officially revealed by Intel.
Release Date and Price
The Intel Raptor Lake release date will be here by the second half of 2022, confirmed by Intel at Investor Meeting 2022 but we might see them a month or so earlier to tackle AMD Zen4 CPUs. We don't know anything about the price but these CPUs cost the same or little more than their 12th Gen counterpart.
Specifications
According to the Intel Raptor Lake chips will pack up to 24 cores with a mix of up to 8 Performance and 16 Efficiency cores. Intel also revealed a double digit performance increase for its 13th gen CPUs compared to Alder Lake CPUs. Still these new upcoming CPUs will be compatible with LGA1700 socket mother-boards also used by 12th Gen CPUs, so you can use them with your older LGA1700 mother-boards. There are also some leaks that these CPUs will be fabricated on 7nm process but not confirmed. We also don't know about the integrated GPUs in these CPUs.
Along with this, these new CPUs will support higher frequency DDR5 memory like the 12th Gen CPUs but at a higher frequency (5600MHz as compared to 4800MHz) but you can also use DDR4 memory with these CPU as DDR5 memory is more expensive than mother-board itself. There will also be a support of PCIe Gen 5.0, so you can enjoy faster SSD experience.
Performance
Intel has not said much about the new series performance but they company has mentioned up to double digit performance increase from last generation but According to Moore's Law Is Dead this number is from 8% to 15% for single-threaded performance and 30% to 40% for multi-threaded performance. Well, there are no official graphs or benchmarks till now so we can only assume for now.