Just yesterday, the official presentation of the Intel Raptor Lake-S and processors took place we managed to confirm most of the leaks which we have seen on previous occasions. We are facing a new generation of high-performance processors that retain the hybrid design we saw in Alder Lake-S, but this means a leap to a new architecture in high-performance cores, as they are based on Raptor Cove.

To improve the performance of Raptor Lake-S compared to Alder Lake-S, Intel experts introduced important new features, among which we can highlight increased L2 cache, a move to 2 MB per core, a new dynamic prefetching algorithm and a dramatically increased operating frequency. The result is an increase in single-wire performance up to 15%.

There is also a significant improvement in multithreading performance, thanks to an increase in the number of E-cores (efficient, based on the Gracemont architecture), more threads, and an increase in the frequency of work and cache. an improvement of up to 41% over Alder Lake-S. These are very positive numbers, which in theory should be enough for Intel to win over Ryzen 7000.

Within the Intel Raptor Lake-S series, the most powerful model with the highest number of cores and threads is the Core i9-13900K, a chip that has 8 high performance cores, 16 high efficiency cores and 32 threads. There are no surprises yet, everything falls in line with what we already knew and the leaks we’ve seen, but it was a big surprise to learn that Intel has a 34-core version of the Raptor Lake-S wafers.

A priori, we might think that this is a version of the Intel Core i9-13900K with a higher number of cores to forcibly dominate the high-end market, but according to information shared by Tom’s Hardware, the source of this information, it appears to be an MCC design using the mesh design we saw on the Sapphire Rapids processorswhich means that we would actually be facing a chip aimed at the Intel Xeon series, i.e. the professional sector.

More information about this “mystery chip” can be found in the attached video. It is clear that this is not a version for general consumption, as we can confirm this it doesn’t have the Raptor Lake-S hybrid design because all its cores are P-type (high performance), so the 34-core chip completely lacks E.