The upcoming Intel's 13th Gen CPUs will be code-named as Raptor Lake CPUs which will succeed the previous 12th Gen Alder Lake CPU. Intel has officially confirmed about its launch date and specifications.
According to Moore's Law is Dead, this time the jump in performance is going to be a huge one.
Just like the last Generation, Intel will continue using their hybrid design of both high-performance cores and efficiency cores for even better user experience in every task. The use of hybrid Cores will give Intel an edge over the upcoming AMD Zen4 CPUs.
With this we can easily assume that even this time Intel will remain as the best for gaming and the leaks claim even after using the same 10nm process node these CPUs are going be far more power efficient than any 12th Gen Intel CPU.
Release Date
Intel has officially confirmed that the Raptor Lake CPUs will be launching in the second half of this year.
Many leaks also suggest that these CPUs might Lauch around as early as July-September but since the Alder Lake CPUs were launched in October 2022, they might be launched as late as November this year.
In case for Intel 13th Gen mobile chips there are not much leaks or announcements, so seeing them before 2023 is very unlikely as Intel is till producing more and more 12th Gen mobile chips.
Pricing
Intel has not revealed the pricing for these CPUs but since the price Core i9 12900K was $589 compared to $539 price of i9 11900K chip, the pricing would be more than $600 due to the silicon shortage.
Specifications
We know that just like the last Generation, Intel will continue using their hybrid design of both high-performance cores and efficiency cores and Intel also revealed a double digit performance increase for its 13th Gen CPUs compared to Alder Lake CPUs.
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.
Intel will still be using its 10nm Intel 7 process node which was used in last Generation CPU. On the other hand AMD has confirmed on using TMSC's 5nm process node for Ryzen 7000 CPUs.
These upcoming CPUs will be compatible with LGA1700 socket mother-boards which are also used by 12th Gen CPUs, so you can use them with your older LGA1700 mother-boards.
Intel is also going to increase the core and thread counts in the 13th Generation. Intel has demoed the core i9 13900K with 24 cores (8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores) and 32 threads as compared to previous Core i9 12900K with 16 cores and 24 threads so we can expect a huge performance gap.
There will also be a support of PCIe Gen 5.0, so you can enjoy faster SSD now.