Initially, o Alder Lake spoke of a late-summer product that should be released in September. Soon, however, rumors began to come, suggesting that it would not be so quick. Starting with the release Rocket Lake only at the turn of March / April (if a 2 × more powerful product should be available in 6 months, it would not release Rocket Lake general sense) only after the rumor that an act may take place in September, but it will not be about availability. Later there were reports that Alder Lake for desktop will go on sale in the fourth quarter, not at the beginning, but rather at the time of pre-Christmas purchases.
This is confirmed, according to current information, the 13th generation is targeting November. It will be accompanied by new boards, but according to the editors of the WCCFTech website, also new coolers. It is not yet known whether they will differ from the existing ones only by the clamping system, or whether there will be differences that will affect the cooling performance.
With a generation Alder Lake Intel has a very good chance of strengthening its position. Especially after generations like Comet Lake a Rocket Lake, which not only failed to fully compete with the contemporary top model of competition, but also failed to match the second model in the order. Rocket Lake The third most powerful retail model of the competition, the eight-core Ryzen 7, matched the effort, but at a consumption higher than that of the 16-core Ryzen 9.
It will not be difficult to improve supply if the initial situation is as it is. Alder Lake but it has several bonuses, including a new platform with DDR5 memory support and PCIe 5.0. Another (perhaps most significant) advantage is the use of an architecture two generations newer than the current one Rocket Lake; core Golden Cove will increase the IPC by ~ 20% compared to Willow Cove (Tiger Lake) and even more significantly than the current desktop Rocket Lake. This will bring IPC significantly above the level of AMD’s current offering. Atomic nuclei will then help multi-core performance Gracemont, which are significantly weaker in terms of IPC, but the situation will no longer be such that Intel will not be able to compete with the second most powerful model of competition. That shouldn’t be a problem now.
A big positive for Intel is the fact that AMD 6nm desktop processors Warhol with cores Zen 3+ they have apparently been canceled and are probably not going to be more than a slight overclocking of existing models. Zen 4 then it should not arrive until the second half of next year, so it will compete more with a generation Alder Lake-refresh alias Raptor Lake.
Of course, aspects such as price, consumption, availability and others remain, which we will learn in November.
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