Intel Raptor Lake CPUs could be on shelves come October 17

Date:
Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:25:37 +0000

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The key question is will that be quick enough to beat AMD which is also set
to unleash Ryzen 7000 around the same time.

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Intels Raptor Lake processors could go on sale on October 17, according to the rumor mill, following a launch in late September.

This fresh speculation on the release timing of Intels next-gen CPUs comes from known leaker Enthusiastic Citizen (on Bilibili), as spotted by Toms Hardware . You may recall that Enthusiastic Citizen recently provided another Raptor Lake leak concerning the Core i5-13600K (which was an impressive showing for the mid-range chip).

Apply all the usual caveats regarding a suitable degree of skepticism to this (and the previous) leak, of course, but the claim is that Intel will launch Raptor Lake at its Innovation event on September 28 (the dev conference kicks off the day before).

That day will also be when the embargo on reviews is lifted, so would-be buyers should be able to see how the 13th-gen range performs, with the processors going on sale come October 17 as mentioned.

The first models to hit the shelves will apparently be the flagship Core i9-13900K , along with the Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K, which would be the expected CPUs to begin with. KF models will also be released those are processors without integrated graphics for those who are happy to rely on a discrete GPU.

However, non-K CPUs, such as the vanilla Core i7-13700 for example, may not
be shown off until CES 2023, on January 5, before going on sale in the latter half of January. Those models arent unlocked like K series chips, which means they cant be overclocked, but thats fine for many people who wont ever tinker with their hardware anyway.

Finally, only the top-end Z790 motherboards will launch in October, the
leaker claims, and more affordable H760 and B760 chipsets wont get here until January (where theyll be pushed out alongside those non-K Raptor Lake processors).

Its worth remembering that Alder Lake motherboards (600 series) are
compatible with Raptor Lake, so you wont have to upgrade your mobo to a 700 series if youre already running a 12th-gen chip. And indeed Intel supposedly wont be releasing an H710 chipset for Raptor Lake, and will instead simply reuse the H610 chipset, which as mentioned is fully compatible. Analysis:
More of a wait to hit shelves than Alder Lake?

This fresh rumor must be treated with plenty of caution, but it does line up with what we were already thinking. When Intel announced its Innovation event for 2022 , the chip giant dropped hints regarding hearing about the latest launches at the conference, and last year, this was the platform Team Blue used to unleashed Alder Lake processors .

So we were already believing there was a solid likelihood of seeing Raptor Lake at Innovation, around its long-rumored October launch timeframe, meaning its no surprise to hear this from the grapevine. However, whats particularly interesting to us here is the purported gap between launch and the CPUs actually going on sale.

We were assuming this would be short gap, but thats just guesswork on our part, based on what happened with Alder Lake where there was just a week between the reveal and processors hitting the shelves. In this case, Intel will apparently be waiting three weeks before unleashing Raptor Lake so the public can buy it, and thats a perfectly reasonable prediction.

The chips will only be ready when theyre ready, of course, but wed been thinking that Intel might want to shoot for an early October launch to try
and get the drop on AMD. Team Reds Ryzen 7000 CPUs are expected to be
launched in September and likely to then emerge in October, just the same as the theory holds with Raptor Lake and whichever company gets their next-gen processors out first will obviously have something of a minor victory in
terms of grabbing that limelight the quickest.

In Intels case, though, it would be a potentially bigger win because itd be the third generation of chips to come out without an answer from AMD, which could be regarded as making Team Red look more than a tad sluggish even if Ryzen 5000 has held its own remarkably well throughout its reign (with that
3D V-cache refresh helping as a kind of stopgap at the top-end for gamers, admittedly).

Maybe AMD will get past the post first, though, if this new rumor is right, but well only know for sure in a couple of months when these next-gen
launches should get underway.



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