Intel Raptor Lake CPUs will launch October 20 with prices largely to match 12th Gen
Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake CPUs are headed to our gaming PCs on October 20. The first chips to arrive from the 13th Gen will be K-series chips, favoured by us PC gamers for our gaming machines, and we have high hopes for what they might offer. We already know to expect a significant uplift in both single-threaded and multithreaded performance but Intel has now offered further explanation as to how it hopes to give AMD's recently released Zen 4 processors a run for their money.
At launch, six 13th Gen processors will be available: Core i9 13900K, Core i9 13900KF, Core i7 13700K, Core i7 13700KF, Core i5 13600K, and Core i5 13600KF.
The 'K' chips come with onboard graphics, Intel's UHD Graphics 770, and slightly higher recommended retail price tags ($25 more) than the graphics-less 'KF' versions.
We've heard a lot about these new processors over the past few months, so let's say none of what I'm about to tell you will come as a complete surprise. Although I have been able to speak with a few key folks over at Intel about the upcoming 13th Gen architecture/CPUs, and there are some less talked about improvements that might be of interest to the budding PC gamer.
First off, Intel is promising a varied uplift in gaming performance over its last-gen Alder Lake processors. Somewhere between an impressive 1.2X improvement in games such as League of Legends(opens in new tab) or Rainbow Six: Siege(opens in new tab) through to generally higher fps in most titles tested internally by the company. With gaming workloads preferring single-threaded performance, and Intel touting up to a 15% increase there, these benchmarks fall roughly in line with our expectations.
However, Intel does also note a slight decrease in performance in
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