The current crisis has lowered the consumption level of users and slowed down the market, which, combined with inflation, has led to changes in the plans of large companies. Among them is Intel, where in its most recent roadmap the Raptor Lake-S refreshan upgraded version of their new desktop processors.
Well yes, it looks like Intel has eased off the accelerator and the annual launch of a new generation and as a result, its desktop processor architecture is going to slow down. While everything pointed to Meteor Lake launching in 2023, the world’s largest PC processor maker made it clear to us that the 13th Gen will still hit the market next year and even get an upgraded overhaul.
Intel will launch an improved version of its Intel Core 13
As can be seen from the roadmap and as Raptor Lake-S Refresh, starting in the second half of next year, we will see the in-store launch of a new version of the most popular Intel Core. advanced never appeared on the market. . . Which compete head-on with AMD’s Ryzen 7000, processors that will receive their corresponding update with V-Cache memory included next year. Intel would therefore have decided to confront its rival and not take it as a banality.
What improvements can the “new” Raptor Lake-S bring?
Well, at the moment we don’t know, what we do know is that DLVR was disabled in the first batch of current generation Intel processors. As we already told you a few weeks ago, it is a voltage regulator inside the processor which, in combination with the one included in the motherboard, results in a voltage curve and a more efficient clock speed. Which can mean two things: more speed with the same consumption or less consumption with the same speed.
However, Intel may also opt for other improvements that we are not aware of, such as a different organization of P-Cores and E-Cores. We don’t expect the total number of threads to increase beyond the i9’s 32 (16 for the 8 performance cores and 16 for the small ones). We also don’t see Intel launching versions with 12 and 16 big cores, which would mean a 12+6 or 16 configuration. More than anything because even games don’t need that many cores and few use more. 8. Although it’s always appreciated to have extra hearts.
As for the added potential of an Intel V-Cache, that’s not something we should ignore, as the company already has experience pairing multiple stacked chips together through its Foveros technology. The problem is that it would be a surprise, since it would be something that would have been kept for a long time. In any case, it is unlikely to be filled, although it is also not 100% disposable. In any case, there are a few weeks left for CES and to remove any doubt about these Raptor Lake-S Refresh.
Intel’s return to workstations
As a last novelty, we have the appearance of the Xeon W which will use the W790 chipset and which is designed for workstations. Its architecture will be based on Sapphire Rapids with 64 execution threads and therefore with 32 P-Core cores. What differentiates it from its brother for servers.
This is Intel’s first processor in years for this type of processor, which has caused AMD’s Threadripper monopoly and total stagnation in this sector of the market, which will mean increased competition in a market, that of the HEDT, which has been stagnating for years.
