Meet the Intel 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake launch press-deck. It unveils six SKUs with which Intel will launch the 13th Generation Core desktop CPU series, emphasize important distinctions from the previous-generation "Alder Lake," and explain what the new Intel Z790 chipset brings to the table.
The initial wave of 13th Gen Core processors will comprise six SKUs: the Core i9-13900K, i9-13900KF, i7-13700K, i7-13700KF, i5-13600K, and i5-13600KF. The -K and -KF components are similar, save for the -KF ones' absence of integrated graphics.
Many of the essential characteristics of these six SKUs, as well as those of other SKUs from future waves of 13th Gen SKUs, have already been leaked to the web, but this presentation verifies a few of noteworthy power specs. The slide validates the Processor Base Power value of 125 W for all six SKUs, the Maximum Turbo Power value of 253 W for the Core i9 and Core i7 K/KF SKUs, and the Maximum Turbo Power value of 181 W for the Core i5 K/KF SKUs. This is a significant improvement over the previous-generation Core i9's 241 W MTP, 190 W MTP for the Core i7, and 150 W MTP for the Core i5. Of course, if these restrictions are like a hedge in your way, you may remove them in the motherboard BIOS.
The following slide compares and contrasts the 12th Gen "Alder Lake" and 13th Gen "Raptor Lake." The maximum number of cores has been increased to 8P+16E. Higher IPC and L2 cache are added to the P-cores, while higher L2 cache is added to the E-cores. The CPU's PCI-Express I/O remains unaltered, with 16 PCIe Gen 5 lanes for PEG and 4 PCIe Gen 4 lanes for CPU-attached M.2 NVMe. The Ryzen 7000, on the other hand, is verified to include Gen 5 CPU-attached M.2 NVMe. DDR5 memory speed has been raised to native DDR5-5600 from DDR5-4800.
The slide describing the new Intel Z790 chipset is very intriguing. At DMI 4.0 x8, the chipset bus remains intact (bandwidth comparable to PCI-Express 4.0 x8). While the previous-generation Z690 had 12x PCIe Gen 4 and 16x PCIe Gen 3 downstream lanes, the new Z790 has 20x PCIe Gen 4 and 8x PCIe Gen 3 lanes. Except for the fact that the Z790 has five 20 Gbps USB 3.2x2 ports instead of four on the Z690, the USB connection is nearly identical.
On September 27, Intel is scheduled to unveil the 13th Generation Core "Raptor Lake" processor line and Z790 chipset.
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