The launch of the Intel Core i9-13900K, Intel Core i7-13700K and Intel Core i5-13600K was just a preview of what’s to come. Between the end of this year and the beginning of next year, we’ll see the launch of Core Gen13 non-K, and according to new information, the chip giant is working on what is currently known as Intel Raptor Lake Refresh.

As the name suggests, it would be a minor renovation of the current generation of Intel processors, which, as we told you in our analysis, was able to restore the crown of single-threaded performance and offers similar performance in multi-threaded. To improve its position, AMD has been working on a new series processors with vertically stored L3 cacheRyzen 7000X3D, whose gaming performance should be much higher than Raptor Lake-S.

And then there would be the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh, a new series of processors that would be the chip giant’s answer to the Ryzen 7000X3D, and which would consist of new models that would have as the only novelty slight increase in beats. There is talk of an increase between 100 and 200 MHz depending on each chip, but it may happen that in those cases where there is more margin of frequency increase, we will find an increase of 300 MHz.

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The real revolution for Santa Clara will be Meteor Lake-S, the successor to Intel Raptor Lake Refresh. According to the latest information we have seen, the generation said will use Intel node 4 (7nm)it will retain the hybrid design we’ve seen in the current generation, meaning it will have a high-performance block and another high-efficiency core and use the architecture Reedwood Cove on high performance cores and Crestmont in highly efficient cores. A significant increase in performance is expected at the time of the two architecture changes.

If we return to the Ryzen 7000X3D, we also have new information that ensures that AMD will limit itself to the launch of two new processors under the mentioned nomenclature, and Ryzen 5 7600X3D with 6 cores and 12 threads and Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 8 cores and 16 threads. Both would theoretically have 32 MB of L3 cache and an additional 64 MB of 3D stacked L3 cache.

It will be interesting to see what the new Ryzen 7000X3D is capable of in games and how it compares to the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh. The truth is, seeing what the Ryzen 7 5800X3D was capable of I’m pretty confident that AMD is going to take the gaming performance crown with the Ryzen 7000X3Dbut until we get the first performance tests, we can’t say for sure.