Intel’s incoming Core i9-13900KS, which can be a brand new model of the Raptor Lake flagship CPU – one able to increase to 6GHz proper out of the field, no overclocking wanted – could possibly be over 20% dearer than the present 13900Ok.

As VideoCardz (opens in new tab) highlighted, that is going by a tweet from {hardware} leaker @momomo_us who picked up on the 13900KS – and different inbound Raptor Lake processors – being listed at retailer PC Canada (opens in new tab) (hold your skeptical head firmly on, naturally).

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The 13900KS is priced at $927 Canadian {Dollars}, and evaluating that to the value of the prevailing 13900Ok on the similar retailer, that’s a 22% markup.

A bunch of different Raptor Lake processors are listed and priced right here, fashions which have already been leaked beforehand (by Microsoft in actual fact). They embody the Core i3-13100 on the different finish of the spectrum from the 13900KS, a quad-core processor marked up at $207 Canadian {Dollars} (or $170 for the 13100F which is the variant that drops the built-in GPU to maintain the associated fee down extra).

Evaluation: Beware the risks of placeholder pricing

Intel is about to disclose these new Raptor Lake processors at CES 2023, which isn’t far off now. The Core i9-13900KS and different 13th-gen fashions turning up at this Canadian retailer is a tantalizing suggestion that they may hit cabinets fairly quickly after the preliminary reveal of the CPUs. Sometimes, we’ll see new fashions unveiled some time earlier than they really go on sale – however this can be a trace that the wait for added Raptor Lake silicon gained’t be lengthy.

Concerning the precise pricing, these are more likely to be placeholders as is commonly the case when pre-release chips pop up early at retailers, so don’t put an excessive amount of inventory within the worth tags proven.

That stated, this could possibly be an affordable tough indication of the form of premium to count on for the 13900KS in comparison with the 13900Ok. On the high-end, you’re all the time going to be a giant dent in your pockets, particularly when a chip just like the ‘KS’ model of an Intel flagship comes out, so 20% further is probably not an unrealistic proposition. On condition that the 13900Ok remains to be retailing at up in direction of the $700 mark within the US, although – albeit Black Friday reductions have chopped it down a bit with some retailers – that might go away the 13900KS at a reasonably eye-watering degree.

Assuming that is the form of extra outlay within the playing cards, will it’s price paying that for what is actually an additional 200MHz of increase in comparison with the 13900Ok? Effectively, that’s debatable definitely, and it stays to be seen how the 13900KS will carry out when it comes to the uncooked grunt it may well muster and the way that’ll be affected by temperatures and throttling (although the cooling resolution used will come into play right here, too, clearly).

Nonetheless, lovers who need the best possible – the area of interest market that the KS mannequin is geared toward – will doubtless stretch to any further expense with out an excessive amount of problem. Let’s face it, these are the oldsters shopping for Nvidia’s new Lovelace GPUs that are approach, far more costly than even the 13900KS can be.

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