AMD will release its first Zen 4 processors in the second part of the year, while Intel, according to recent speculations, will not stand idle: Raptor Lake would outperform Alder Lake by up to 15% in single-core performance and up to 40% in multi-core performance, making it a formidable competitor for the next AMD.

Raptor Lake would improve between 8% and 15% in single-core due to architectural improvements, and between 30% and 40% in multi-core due to the combination of these architectural improvements and the addition of extra cores, which is a significant generational increase. It is also expected to come in the third quarter of the year, so it will not take as long as the Zen 4 to hit the market.

Remember that Intel confirmed a few days ago that Raptor Lake will have up to 24 cores and 32 threads compared to 16 cores and 24 threads in Alder Lake, so these figures make a lot of sense when you consider the improvements per core that you mentioned in the previous Intel, as well as the addition of up to 8 additional high-efficiency cores. The Zen 4 will have the same number of cores as the Zen 3, but it will have a much-improved architecture and a larger TDP to allow speeds beyond 5GHz, so the battle between the two firms in the second part of the year will be more than exciting. 

Raptor Lake would outperform Alder Lake by up to 15% in single-core and 40% in multi-core.