Restoration of Raptor Lake or soda Raptor Lake is a new generation of processors that Intel is preparing for desktop computers. As the name suggests, this is the thirteenth generation of the Intel Core soft drink, which will retain the brand that has accompanied these products for more than a decade. This means that the Raptor Lake Refresh processors will be called Intel Core iX-14XXX, while retaining the “i” feature that will surely stick in the minds of many for a while.

On a feature level, the latest information suggests that the Raptor Lake Refresh will try to bring some improvements over the original generation, although the fact that it’s a remake will mean that these improvements don’t aim to be overly ambitious. Here we find the alleged an increase in frequencies and the number of physical cores, mainly in the middle and low bands, especially in the Core i3, which is a series in which it jumps to six physical cores and twelve threads It can represent a significant improvement in terms of extending the life of those devices that are designed to perform tasks that are not particularly demanding.

The Core i7 line will be interesting in the Raptor Lake Refresh, as it looks like it will offer 20 physical cores providing a total of 28 threads (16 for the eight high-performance cores and 12 for the efficient twelve cores). The information we gathered indicates that the Core i5 will implement 16 cores, providing a total of 24 threads.

As for other possible features of the Raptor Lake Refresh, it is expected to support memories DDR5 RAM with a frequency of up to 6400 MHz and that the Intel Core i9-14900K and Intel Core i9-14900KS models are capable of reaching 6 GHz and 6.2 GHz or at least under certain very favorable conditions.

As the next generation is a refresh, it should be highly compatible with the motherboards that were once released for Alder Lake (12th generation), with the only requirement being that a firmware update would be necessary at worst. This possibility is mainly due to the reuse of the LGA1700 socket.

In short, and while not a revolution, the Raptor Lake Refresh seems to be a series of processors that offer a lot of performance and that in the mid and low range can represent a significant jump in quality. Yes, here too it will be necessary to consider pricing and the depressed nature of the industry in terms of sales, two factors that could ultimately make competition with the original generation Raptor Lake fierce.And that’s not counting what AMD does.

The launch of the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh is apparently scheduled for October 17-23, 2023. Given the current market situation, the three giants around the x86 spectrum (Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA) are reserving better, forward-looking cards that have actually resulted in such as maintaining 8GB of VRAM in the mid-range of the latest generation of dedicated graphics sold by AMD and NVIDIA, an amount of memory that is rare to run certain games on the latest generation in ultra and 1080p.