Intel Raptor Lake-S has up to 24 cores
For a long time, the focus of attention has been on Alder Lake and Meteor Lake. Alder Lake is Intel’s upcoming 12th-generation Core series processor, the first desktop platform x86 processor with big.LITTLE hybrid architecture. It is also Intel’s first desktop processor based on the 10nm Enhanced SuperFin (Intel 7) process. Meteor Lake is Intel’s 14th-generation Core series processor, with a modular design. It is Intel’s first 7nm process (Intel 4) product for the consumer market. It incorporates EUV lithography technology and will use Foveros packaging technology.
Obviously, there will be a 13th-generation Core series processor between the two, which is the improved version of Alder Lake Raptor Lake. Compared with the two generations of the Core series one after the other, Raptor Lake has relatively few opportunities to show up. It is said that the desktop platform Raptor Lake-S still uses the big.LITTLE hybrid architecture and Intel 7 process, and makes relevant improvements to the core architecture. At the same time, it will continue to use the LGA 1700 base, which is compatible with the motherboard used by Alder Lake-S. It is expected to be released at the end of 2022.
According to YouTube AdoredTV, Raptor Lake-S will be equipped with a code-named Raptor Cove performance (large) core to replace Alder Lake-S’s Golden Cove. At the same time, the number of Gracemont efficiency (small) cores will be doubled. This means that the highest-positioned Core i9 processor in Raptor Lake-S will consist of 8 Raptor Cove performance (large) cores and 16 Gracemont efficiency (small) cores, for a total of 24 cores.
AdoredTV even exposed the entire product line of the 13th generation Core series processors, including Core i9, i7, i3, and Pentium’s large and small core configurations. Among them, the enthusiast “K” series will provide three configurations of 8C+16c, 8C+8c, and 6C+8c. Core i3 is a 4-core processor with only 4 big cores. Intel retains the Pentium brand and continues to provide dual-core processors, equipped with 2 large cores, and the number of EUs for GPUs is only 16. The situation of Core i5 is the most complicated. In addition to the number of cores, the number of EUs of the GPU will also be different. There are 10 (6C+4c/24EU) or 14 (6C+8c/32EU) core models.
TDP is still divided into three gears, 125W is the enthusiast “K” series, 65W is the mainstream product, and 35W is the low-power “T” series. Except for the lowest-end Pentium and some Core i5 processors, the GPU is generally equipped with 32 EUs. However, the information does not disclose which GPU architecture is, but it is likely to be the same as Alder Lake-S. In addition, there is no Celeron brand in the 13th-generation Core series processors.
Since Raptor Lake-S will improve performance and power consumption on the basis of Alder Lake-S while increasing IPC and frequency, it will provide better cache design, and the second level cache will be larger. AdoredTV said that in terms of frequency, Raptor Lake-S will be 200 MHz higher than Alder Lake-S, with a core frequency of up to 5.5 GHz. In addition, Raptor Lake will also support higher frequency DDR5 memory. Desktop platforms support up to DDR-5600, and mobile platforms are LPDDR5-6500. This refers to the default memory support.
