A content producer on the Bilibili video platform delidded Intel's Core i9-13900 Raptor Lake CPU on video. The Raptor Lake die measures 23.8 by 10.8 mm. This means a broader and longer die than 12th-gen Alder Lake CPUs.

Near the end of the movie, the developer combined three delidded chips from past, current, and future Intel CPUs together, including the Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K at 24 x 11.7 mm, Alder Lake Core i9-12900K at 20.4 x 10.2 mm, and the Raptor Lake i9-13900 engineering sample. Raptor Lake is between the i9-12900K and 11900K in size. Raptor Lake's die size matches the architecture's latest improvements. These enhancements include doubling the efficiency core count, increasing L2 cache by 60%, and slightly increasing L3 cache.

These upgrades have prolonged Raptor Lake's die. Additional cores require fusing two more quad-core clusters onto the design, which necessitates a longer die without decreasing other components. We're not sure why the die size has grown, but we presume it's because of the huge L2 cache, which may need more capacity. New "Raptor Cove" performance cores may also effect die size. We don't know if Raptor Cove has changed since Golden Cove (Alder Lake's P cores).

The i9-die 13900's size is smaller than the i9-11900 K's. Despite adding two core clusters, die size is still greater than Raptor Lake. This shows how bad Intel's 11th-generation architecture was. Despite the huge die, Intel's upcoming 13th gen processors will be compatible with the current LGA 1700 socket, LGA 1700 coolers, and current 600 series chipset motherboards - with a simple BIOS update. The bigger chip size might put more heat on CPU fans from cache and cores, but we don't foresee a major difference from Alder Lake. These chips must have the same power envelope as Alder Lake. All reports lead to a Q4 2022 debut for Raptor Lake, which matches AMD's announced Ryzen 7000 series launch.