Today, at the Intel Innovation event, 13th Gen Core Raptor Lake was announced as Matthew covered HERE. This is the final step before full technical reviews in the next few weeks and we are now allowed to stop teasing you with partial coverage that we prepared under NDA such as THIS and THIS. Today we take a closer look into Raptor Lake itself…

Timestamps

00:00 Start
00:57 Bold Claims by Intel
01:56 ‘The Worlds Fastest Desktop Processor’
02:35 Leo deep dive
13:26 Leo’s closing thoughts

Intel is making huge claims about the increases for 13th Gen Raptor Lake over 12th Gen Alder Lake. As always we caution you to approach the claims with a degree of scepticism until we have facts and figures and can offer an independent view.

We are confident that Intel's claims about Core i9-13900K beating Core i9-12900K are accurate. Indeed we can believe that Core i9-13900K squeezes out a victory over Ryzen 9 5950X, although we want to check that for ourselves. The part that makes us drop our drink and shriek is that Intel claims the Core i9-13900K is a better gaming CPU than Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Them's fighting talk, Intel.

We cover the details behind Raptor Lake in our video, in particular the boost that Intel claims they get from Raptor Cove P-Cores over the Golden Cove cores in Alder Lake. Again – we cannot say this too often – this information comes from Intel and we cannot yet verify it one way or the other.

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KitGuru Says: Intel has announced 13th Gen Raptor Lake and we have details of the high end K-SKUs. Next up we'll be tackling reviews and judging whether or not Raptor Lake can take the fight to AMD Zen 4. 

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