The release date for the first three members of the Raptor Lake family has been leaked. The leaker is reliable and the timing is logical.
In September, Intel will unveil its 13th generation Raptor Lake processor family, and next month the first batch of different models will be on the shelves. This was aired by a user with the pseudonym Enthusiastic Citizen, otherwise considered a reliable leaker, on the Bilibili social network. It also has exact dates:
The presentation will take place on September 28, and the store launch will take place on October 17.
The former is logical: the Intel Innovation conference starts on the 27th, it goes without saying that the audience will be shown what Raptor Lake will be able to do there.
As usual, not the entire family will be launched in October, but the three big guns, which have been given the already known numbering. The flagship will of course be the Core i9-13900K, the upper-middle category is represented by the Core i7-13700K, and the favorite of gamers will probably be the Core i5-13500K: it contains just enough cores and will run at such a clock rate that in the near future it will be enough for a game nor will this CPU be the bottleneck.
Those who do not tune, but would rather build a PC more cost-effectively, will have to wait: the models without the K mark, i.e. with factory-maximized clocks, will not arrive until next January. They are expected to be presented at CES on the 5th and will be on the market in the second half of the month.
The motherboards are similarly scheduled: the high-end models with the Z790 chipset will arrive with the first processors in October, according to the leaker, while the cheaper H760 and B760 chipset models will arrive in January. The good news, however, is that the 600 chipset series designed for the current Alder Lake processors will be compatible with the Raptor Lake CPUs, i.e. we can get away without replacing the motherboard, although many models will probably require a BIOS update.
The preliminary test results of the Core i9 Raptor Lake processor have also been leaked, and as far as games are concerned, the results are not very encouraging: either it runs processor-intensive titles at the same speed as its predecessor, or only a little faster. True, on the one hand, these were test copies in an unoptimized environment, and on the other hand, we are also very curious to see if they are used by production software (video editors, 3D render engines).
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