The leaked schedule left us with the introduction and launch dates of Intel Raptor Lake-S, the chip giant’s new generation of high-performance processors. this series it will directly compete with the Ryzen 7000 which AMD just presented today and thanks to numerous leaks and official information shared by Intel itself, we already know almost all its keys.

In this roadmap, we can see that the introduction of Intel Raptor Lake-S will take place on the day September 27 (September 28th, Taiwan time) and Core i9-13900K pre-orders will open on the same day, while Core i7-13700K and Core i5-13600K pre-orders will start on October 13th. The general availability of all these processors will not be a reality before long October 20. They can be directly purchased from that day.

AMD finally managed to get ahead of Intel with the Ryzen 7000, as these processors will hit the market on the same day as the introduction of the Raptor Lake-S. However, Intel played its cards very well and decided to introduce Core Gen13 on the same day as the new AMD launch for two simple reasons:

• Deduct the interest from the launch of the Ryzen 7000.
• Show users its new generation of high-performance processors to see what’s to come and make them think twice before buying Ryzen 7000.

I remind you that a total of six Core Gen13 processors will hit the market from October 20. These will be yours key specifications:

• Intel Core i9-13900K: 8 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3GHz-5.8GHz, normal and turbo mode, 16 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.4GHz-4.7GHz, normal and turbo mode, 68MB cache (L3 + L2) and TDP 125 watts. Integrated Intel Xe GPU and a total of 32 threads
• Intel Core i9-13900KF: 8 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3GHz-5.8GHz, normal and turbo mode, 16 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.4GHz-4.7GHz, normal and turbo mode, 68MB cache (L3 + L2) and TDP 125 watts. Integrated GPU disabled and 32 threads total
• Intel Core i7-13700K: 8 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3.4 GHz-5.6 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 8 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.4 GHz-4.3 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 54 MB cache (L3 + L2) and a TDP of 125 watts. Integrated Intel Xe GPU and a total of 24 threads.
• Intel Core i7-13700KF: 8 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3.4 GHz-5.6 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 8 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.4 GHz-4.3 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 54 MB cache (L3 + L2) and a TDP of 125 watts. Integrated GPU disabled and 24 threads total.
• Intel Core i5-13600K: 6 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3.5 GHz-5.2 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 8 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.5 GHz-3.9 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 44 MB cache (L3 + L2) and a TDP of 125 watts. Integrated Intel Xe GPU and a total of 20 threads.
• Intel Core i5-13600KF: 6 high-performance Raptor Cove cores at 3.5 GHz-5.2 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 8 high-performance Gracemont cores at 3.5 GHz-3.9 GHz, normal and turbo mode, 44 MB cache (L3 + L2) and a TDP of 125 watts. Integrated GPU disabled and 20 threads total.

All these processors will support overclocking and will work with the current 600 series motherboards and the upcoming 700 series motherboards. We don’t have any specific pricing details yet, so we’ll have to wait.