the chips will be announced on Sept. 27 at the company's Intel Innovation event in San Jose, California. Pre-orders will start on the same day, while the official launch is expected to happen on Oct. 20.
In the lead-up to the Raptor Lake launch, a series of leaks, rumors and speculations revealed several details about the range. Earlier this year, a leak claimed that the flagship chip in the lineup, the Core i9-13900K, could be up to 20 percent faster than the company's current top-of-the-line Alder Lake processor, the Core i9-12900K. Other leaks have also revealed some of the SKUs that are expected to be available at launch, as well as details about motherboard, RAM and cooler compatibility. The Raptor Lake lineup will be the follow-up to the Alder Lake chips released late last year and will be followed by Meteor Lake processors next year.
According to a leaked document accessed by ship with integrated GPUs.
Intel's Raptor Lake Lineup
Alongside the six aforementioned chips, the Raptor Lake lineup will also reportedly include 'F' versions of these six processors that will come without an integrated GPU. These will include the Core i9-13900KF and Core i9-13900F, etc. These chips will be slightly cheaper than the ones that will ship with an iGPU. Finally, there will be two more low-power 'T' series chips targeted at enterprise s. These will include the Core i9 13900T and Core i7 13700T, both of which will have a 35W base TDP.
In of expected performance, Intel's lineup is rumored to be faster than anything that AMD's mainstream Ryzen 7000 lineup can offer. According to reports, the flagship Core i9-13900K will have a maximum boost clock of 5.8GHz on a single core, while the boost clock for all the performance cores is said to hit a beastly 5.5GHz. The efficiency cores, however, are said to top out at 4.3GHz. If the above specs hold true, Intel's Raptor Lake chips will definitely be worth the wait, especially for performance enthusiasts and serious gamers.
Source: Wccftech