Look out Zen 4, Intel says Raptor Lake's single thread performance is 15% higher than Alder Lake
Intel's upcoming Raptor Lake processors were not on the roadmap until two years ago, when Intel decided to rush to battle stations and get to work on what would become the 13th Gen.
Intel's Isic Silas, general manager of client platforms and corporate VP, confirmed today at the Technology Tour here in Israel, that Raptor Lake was something of a last-minute (in CPU roadmap terms) addition to Intel's roadmap. Usually Intel would plan chips for many years in advance. Even if the public doesn't necessarily know about it. Raptor Lake, however, was a relatively late addition.
«Raptor Lake was not on the Intel roadmap just two years ago, there was supposed to be another product,» Silas tells us.
«So we predicted, okay, the next one, which was very complex from an architecture point of view, would not make it on time. So we have two options, one to close our eyes and say everything should be okay and I can go and pray to the synagogue and make it happen.
»The other option was to go back to management to give us some small amount of resources in order to do a product and this is where we started Raptor Lake."
Intel then set out to make something out of the 12th Gen Alder Lake architecture that would take the form of the 13th Gen. That's not necessarily easy, though Silas says there was plenty of impetus to find increased performance somewhere on account of what it would be up against in the market.
Starting out with a performance expectation of around 16 — 20% multi-threaded performance increase over Alder Lake, the design team quickly realised it needed to go further, for two reasons.
«One, we have much more competition than we thought,» says Silas. «Second, we internalised the fact that Raptor Lake needs more time in the
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