As we told you a few weeks ago, everything points to the fact that Intel will introduce Raptor Lake, the thirteenth generation of Intel Core, at its Intel Innovation event. which will begin on September 27. A little over two months from today, in which we can expect a steady stream of information and leaks about what to expect from the next evolutionary leap in societal integration, which we will continue to be very attentive to.

Now, while we’re almost certain that Raptor Lake will see the light of day this event, we’re talking about the presentation, not its arrival on the market. At the same time? A week later? maybe a month? Of course, there is still no official information about this (Intel did not even confirm that Raptor Lake will be presented at Intel Innovation in September), but now the ECSM_Official leak in Bilibili (in Chinese) gives us possible dates.

According to your information The first Raptor Lake processors, from the K series, will hit the market on October 17, and they’ll do it hand in hand with motherboards featuring the Z790 chipset, the pinnacle of Intel’s thirteenth generation lineup. Recall that there are three families of chipsets that will accompany the Raptor Lake, the aforementioned Z90, the H770 as an option for the upper mid-range and mid-range, and the B760 for the entry-level and part of the mid-range. The forecast is that these two additional families will see the light of day during CES 2023, which will be held in early January, predictably along with other Raptor Lake lines for desktops and laptops, among other announcements.

Core i7-13700K performance

Although, as we mentioned earlier, there are still months to go before the 13th generation processors start to hit the market, there are already quite a few samples of them that have started circulating and caused the information to start appearing and some of their performance tests in various benchmarks link. This, while we have to take it with a grain of salt, as there may be slight differences between these previews and the final versions, allows us to get a fairly concrete picture of what to expect.

A few weeks ago we published a complete compilation of what we know about the Raptor Lake-S, and especially in terms of processors, we have already seen the top of the range, the Intel Core i9-13900K, published here and here in several performance tests. A few days ago we also learned about the Intel Core i5-13600K, a tremendously promising chip and that with the right price, it can become an Intel bestseller.

Y now in Geekbench 5 we also find information about the Intel Core i7-13700Kwhich leads us to the fact that we already have a good set of information about the Raptor Lake K series, and what we see about this new chip is quite interesting, as performance tests indicate that it will be 17% faster than its predecessor, the Core. i7-12700K.

And what do we find inside? Well eight power cores with the architecture of Raptor Cove accompanied another eight effective cores based at Gracemont, do 24 threads in total. Its fundamental frequency will be 3.4 GHzwhich can be increased to 5.30 GHz in turbo mode. However, I repeat what was mentioned above, we are talking about test units, so it is possible that their maximum frequency is somewhat higher. It comes with 30 MB of L3 cache and 12 MB of L2 cache.

Moreover, we have to reckon with it testing was done on a system with an ASRock Z690 Steel Legend motherboard with 32GB of DDR4-3600 memory, so we can also expect some chip performance improvement on a board with a Raptor Lake specific chipset (Z790, H770 or B760) and with DDR5 memory. Let’s remind that Raptor Lake aims to be a transition generation with both DDR4 and DDR5 support and that the processors of this generation will be compatible with a significant part of motherboards with Alder Lake chipsets, Z690, H670, B660 and H610. while Meteor Lake will be disruptive in this regard by switching sockets (from LGA1700 to LGA1851) and only allowing DDR5 memory.