If we believe the insider’s information, the Intel company should introduce the next generation of Intel Core Raptor Lake processors in October of this year. And the closer it is to a full-fledged presentation, the more aggregated data about the characteristics and capabilities of processors from the future line appear on the network. For example, on July 31st, the Videocardz information publication published photos showing the overclocking of the Intel Core i7-13700K processor, citing their source. Perhaps this is an engineering sample sent to trusted people for testing, or the “blue team” has already sent the first batches of chips for testing to journalists for testing.

And if you think the photos were leaked online, the Intel Core i7-13700K was overclocked to 6.0 GHz on the MSI MEG Z690I motherboard, without the use of liquid nitrogen and other overclocking enhancements (no information about it). However, as always in the news about overclocking processors that are not yet on sale, there are a few key clarifications. For example, to overclock to such an important mark, it is worthwhile to understand that enthusiasts turn off small cores (energy efficient cores), since it would be very difficult to raise them to such a frequency. Accordingly, large (productive) cores were overclocked.

So, in the benchmark in single-threaded mode, enthusiasts managed to show 983 points – this is more than reaching the flagship Core i9-13900K processor on these high-performance cores, at a frequency of only 5.5. GHz. At 6.0 GHz the Core i7-13700K processor turned out to be 10% faster than the Core i9-13900K at 5.5 GHz – at equal frequencies, most likely, there will be no difference in performance in single-threaded mode. all. This makes sense, because the cores of the models are the same. Moreover, the difference with the 5.2 GHz Core i9-12900K is only 16%. That’s actually a minor power gain, especially considering the Core i7-13700K’s core voltage has been increased to 1.421V and power consumption at 6.0GHz will be noticeably higher.

In simple terms, Intel is trying to play its favorite card again – with the transition to the next generation, the architecture, technological process and cores do not change. The user will receive a 10-15% increase in performance over the previous generation due to increased clock frequencies, but will pay for this with high power consumption and the need to purchase a powerful cooling system.