Intel wants users of its LGA 1700 platform to know it intends to continue supporting the platform amid new motherboard announcements. Raptor Lake saw the release of the powerhouse 14th-gen Core i9-14900K processor, featuring 24 cores/32 threads, 8P + 16E, with a staggering 6 GHz boost clock. Intel also designed Raptor Lake so that it could support either DDR4 or DDR5 memory, giving builders options when configuring systems, and thanks to the current DDR/NAND shortage, it is a strategy playing into LGA 1700 sticking around. The following is from Club386 (via VideoCardz).
““You’ve also seen some new motherboard announcements that support both DDR4 and 5 on Raptor Lake, as kind of like a bridge between worlds for people, That is reflective of our overall confidence and expectations.”
– Robert Hallock, Intel VP and GM enthusiast channel
The LGA 1700 platform has not seen any new processors in a while, but its commercial version recently got the Bartlett Lake-S CPU. This processor has been on the radar of the PC community for some time now, with enthusiasts working to get it running on the LGA 1700 socket. Efforts have seen it go from simply showing in the Z790 motherboard BIOS to booting and now running in Windows. It’s probably only a matter of time until we see gaming benchmarks with the unusual 12P core design. If enough performance gains are seen, enough pressure might see Intel officially releasing it to consumers, although that probability is quite low, but stranger things have happened.
Some motherboard manufacturers have offered either LGA 1700 socket boards with DDR4 or DDR5 versions, while others, such as the ASRock H610 Combo, have included both on a single board. In either case, Intel has placed its Raptor Lake processors in a unique market space so that users can opt for either the current memory standard or its predecessor, giving it a longer lifespan during these very interesting times.
“Raptor Lake is a big part of our strategy – I want to be very clear about that, it’s still really, really good, even with multiple generations of hardware from other vendors coming after it, so it’s not going anywhere. I want people to understand that Raptor Lake will continue to be abundantly available.”
– Robert Hallock, Intel VP and GM enthusiast channel