During the Intel Innovation keynote on September 27, 2022, Intel finally revealed its 13thGeneration Raptor Lake chips.
This follow-up to the powerful 12th-Generation Intel Core processors is expected to provide more power and efficiency.
So, what processors exactly are we getting from Team Blue?
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These chips offer more cores and faster clock speeds while delivering more efficiency.
Each chip model also has a greaterCPU cachethan the previous generation.
More Cores
All 13th-Generation processors are getting a bump in their core numbers.
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The i7-13700K also gets eight Efficiency Cores, up from Alder Lake’s four E-Cores.
When Premiere Pro is in the background, its workload is transferred to the E-Cores.
you’re able to continue working on Lightroom using the P-Core with minimal effect on performance.
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The 12th-Gen 12900K tops out at 5.2GHz.
However, the mainstream i5-13600K now has a max clock speed of 5.1GHz.
Although they still have the same base TDP of 125W, they require significantly more when on Turbo.
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The i5-12600K, i7-12700K, and i9-12900K had a max TDP of 150W, 190W, and 241W.
These are massive increases, especially for the i7-13700K.
However, these also come with a massive bump in processing power.
Despite that, the company claims its Raptor Lake chips are more efficient than the Alder Lake CPUs.
And when you push the i9-13900K at max TDP, the chip performs 41% better than its predecessor.
This is unlike AMD’sRyzen 7000 processors, which only work with DDR5 memory.
Although DDR4 RAM might bottleneck the CPU’s performance, it allows users to upgrade their systems gradually.
After all, DDR5 RAM is still expensive.
However, Intel will not take this lying down.
They released phenomenal chips in the form of the Alder Lake CPUs, and Raptor Lake looks equally impressive.
These two new processor families are heating the CPU industry, with both processors delivering remarkable performance.
