Intel Unveils 'Raptor Lake' 13th Gen Core CPUs, With Overclockable Chips to Start

pcmag.com:

At the Intel Innovation event in San Jose, Calif., today, the chip maker decloaked full details on its first 13th Gen Core desktop processors, dubbed "Raptor Lake-S" during their development. (Some details on the processors leaked earlier in the month, but today's official launch provided significantly more context.) Like the previous-generation "Alder Lake" 12th Gen chips, the first chips (six of them) are all unclocked "K" or "KF" versions. Non-K models will follow later; Intel notes that there will ultimately be 22 desktop chips in the 13th Gen line.

“Alder Lake was all about architecture, but Raptor Lake was built for speed,” noted Dan Rogers, senior director of mobile product marketing, at a Raptor Lake prebriefing event in Tel Aviv, Israel, earlier in the month attended by PCMag. The new desktop chips are all rated for 125 watts base power. Lower-power 35- and 65-watt Raptor Lakes will follow.

Intel also teased that mobile versions of Raptor Lake will follow in 2023, in its now-typical U (ultralight), P (mainstream-performance), H (power user), and HX (unlocked) series. The P series of mobile chips were introduced with the 12th Gen Alder Lake family. Dynamic tuning will also be coming to mobile, with some “new core-parking technologies” arriving later in the year, taking advantage of the chips' twin core types and the Thread Director technology that negotiates tasks between the cores.

For this launch, Intel is starting with the 125-watters for enthusiasts, dubbing them as “the world’s best gaming experience,” similar messaging as with earlier launch K-chips. The chips, like with Alder Lake, employ what the company calls a "hybrid architecture": full-power Performance cores (P-cores) for higher frame rates, and