According to rumors, Intel will introduce Raptor Lake on October 7. The initial batch will include the Core i9-13900K, Core i7-13700K, and Core i5-13600K processors, as well as the top-tier Z790 chipset.

The Core i7-13700K has 16 cores (8 Raptor Cove P-cores and 8 Gracemont E-cores) (E-cores). Raptor Lake has 30MB of L3 cache with clock speeds of 3.4 GHz base and 5.3 GHz peak. According to Geekbench 5, the Core i7-13700K outperforms AMD's Ryzen 9 5950X. Benchleaks discovered a new submission indicating that DDR4 memory was slowing down the Raptor Lake CPU. DDR5 did not boost the single-core performance of the Core i7-13700K. DDR5 was 1% slower than DDR4, however this was within error. DDR5 delivered a 20% improvement in multi-core performance. That's a big performance difference.

DDR5 memory improves Alder Lake's performance depending on the workload. Raptor Lake uses Raptor Cove cores, which may have a different effect on memory performance than Golden Cove cores. While the early results of DDR5 are promising, further testing is required to evaluate if it is worth the additional cost over high-performance DDR4.

DDR5 might bring Raptor Lake CPU 20% more performance