Think the 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900KS with its boost frequencies of up to 5.50 GHz is fast? Wait until you see what blue team is supposedly cooking up for its next generation of desktop processors. New rumors shared by leaker @OneRaichu suggest that Alder Lake’s successor, Raptor Lake, will boast exciting increases in clock speeds of around 200 to 300 MHz. The implication is that the 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900K may be able to boost up to a very impressive 5.8 GHz. AMD’s flagship Ryzen CPU for desktops, the Ryzen 9 5950X, is listed with a maximum boost clock of 4.9 GHz.
RPL will over the new highest freq which was created by 12900KS.
— Raichu (@OneRaichu) April 13, 2022
More 2-300 MHz is possible.
Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake Flagship, Core i9-13900K, Could Feature Clock Speeds Up To 5.8 GHz (Wccftech)
Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs are expected to be an evolution of the 12th Gen Alder Lake family. Both are based on a hybrid core architecture with the former utilizing the x86 Golden Cove and the latter utilizing the Raptor Cove cores. Both Alder Lake & Raptor Lake feature Intel’s Gracemont Atom cores known as E-Cores though Raptor Lake will increase the overall quantity of such cores to 16 from the existing 8. This will push the core count up to 24 cores and 32 threads vs the 16 cores and 24 threads that we get on the flagship Core i9-12900K.
Besides this change, Intel is also expected to increase the cache size dramatically for its 13th Gen Raptor Lake lineup. The flagship Core i9-13900K is expected to rock up to 68 MB of cache as part of its new ‘Game Cache’. This rumor was first started by @OneRaichu last year and since, many other tech leakers and insiders are reporting the same.
Now, @OneRaichu has another rumor surrounding the Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake lineup and that’s the core clock. As per the rumor, Intel is expected to boost its P-core clocks by up to 300 MHz. Currently, Intel’s fastest chip in production is the Core i9-12900KS which offers a max clock speed of up to 5.5 GHz. A 200-300 MHz jump in frequency for Raptor Lake would mean that the blue team is aiming to breach the 5.5 GHz clock limit on a retail chip and go for the 5.7-5.8 GHz mark.
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Join Discussion →I'm still waiting for 10GHz from Netburst.
I'm wondering how high they got those on sub ambient cooling....
I wouldn't call this as authoritative as Guiness, but it does look like they got up to 8.0Ghz
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I want to see how HOT this gets and how much POWER it needs to hit those numbers. Clearly Intel is a bit shook by AMD's 3d vCache.
That's what I was thinking - for Raptor Lake, these speed boosts are intriguing, and mean that Intel's ~10nm '7' process still has some legs.
Really more concerned about the power draw involved, as well as the endurance at these higher speeds.
Positive as the 3D Vcache is, it's not terribly practical given how it limits clockspeeds. It does certainly show how throwing cache at the problem can help, though!
It's just standard marketing - announce something big and bold and baseless if your competition one-ups you. It's strictly to keep the shareholders from getting too spooked and triggering a sell-off.
Yes 3dvcache limits your overall clock speed. But in the world of gaming clock speed isn't everything. IPC and clearly Cache are vastly important as well.
Now I am not in the market for this particular CPU (the 3dvcache one) but the next generation I am wondering and hoping that they resolve the speed issue and get the 3dvcache (or just large cache spaces) properly configured and maintain or increase clock speed and IPC.
I can see it now. Someone tries to show off their new rig in a year or two.
Hey dude! What's with the three power supplies?
One is for the CPU, the other is for the GPU, and the last is for everything else.
Dude! What's with the glow coming from the closet?
Oh, that's nothing, it's just my mini-reactor to power it all.
Sulu: She's supposed to have transwarp drive.
Scotty: Aye. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
It's really up to the game - and honestly, a game that's faster on a 5800X3D that's slower on a 12900K and even slower on a 5800X, was poorly optimized. No two ways about it.
Well, they have to. There's a reason that there are not '3D' versions of the 5900X and 5950X - they'd literally be no faster than the 5800X3D for games, perhaps slower, while simultaneously being no faster than the current versions at anything outside of gaming.
And remember that the 12900K is still faster all around, especially outside of gaming. Not really cost efficient, but it's priced like the best of both worlds.
That's why this is more of a 'hmmm'. Great deal for those looking to upgrade on AM4 for gaming specifically, not so much otherwise.
I will also say after having watched a few reviews that the idea of a power / thermal / noise constrained gaming build really looks like a solid application for the 5800X3D. Maybe ~100W under load to dissipate, easy peasy for a 240mm AIO, and you'd be off to the races.
I need to get a separate cooling system for my office... assuming that I'd need to get power run for it too, I might as well just get a 220 circuit put in, right?
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3 phase or gtfo
FTFY