Intel’s Raptor Lake processors will launch with 12 totally different fashions of desktop CPUs for customers, in accordance with the most recent rumors.

This comes from Wccftech (opens in new tab), which received its arms on a leaked spec sheet for the preliminary line-up of 13th-gen chips.

The speculation is that Intel will initially debut the Core i9-13900Okay and vanilla 13900, together with the Core i7-13700Okay plus 13700, Core i5-13600Okay, and Core i5-13400.

That’s six fashions, and supposedly there’ll even be ‘F’ variations of those six processors, such because the Core i9-13900KF and 13900F. The addition of that letter merely means these are variants with out an built-in GPU (permitting for barely cheaper costs for individuals who have a discrete graphics card).

That makes 12 CPUs in whole for the preliminary launch (plus a few enterprise-targeted chips, the 13900T and 13700T that are low-power variants).

The flagship Core i9-13900Okay is proven with a most enhance of 5.8GHz, a pace which has lengthy been rumored, and an all-core enhance of 5.5GHz (for the efficiency cores that’s – the effectivity cores, 16 of them, high out at 4.3GHz).

Wccftech maintains that Raptor Lake will likely be revealed on September 27, at Intel’s huge Innovation occasion, with the processors really happening sale come October 20, as latest hypothesis has indicated.

Evaluation: Extra fashions than we anticipated

It’s attention-grabbing to see leaks which present fairly plenty of processors current proper out of the gate, as elsewhere we’d heard that Intel might be capturing for a extra restricted launch of only a few ‘Okay’ mannequin CPUs to start with (particularly the 13900Okay, 13700Okay and 13600Okay). It might be the case, although, that these are the chips which go on pre-order per week earlier than the October 20 on-shelf date, and the opposite 13th-gen processors would possibly arrive very swiftly after that.

Different notable factors made within the leaked specs right here embrace the assertion that the TDPs for Raptor Lake run from 65W to 125W on the high-end, which sounds all very palatable. However bear in mind: the flagship 13900Okay is rumored to have an excessive efficiency mode which may peak at a lot, a lot larger wattages than that (though fans who need this sort of efficiency are unlikely to be too fearful about energy payments).

Raptor Lake CPUs look set to ship some significantly nippy body charges, however the identical is true for AMD’s next-gen choices. Certainly, what we’ve seen of Ryzen 7000 chips to date following their preliminary reveal makes the Zen 4-based silicon look fairly robust – with some excellent news on the pricing entrance, too.

AMD will even be getting a key benefit by way of really happening sale come September 27 – method forward of Raptor Lake (in principle), and with loads of inventory rumored to be available, that might give Crew Purple a serious head-start within the battle for next-gen turf.

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