Intel’s Raptor Lake silicon clocks very high, and the company intends to prove it.
Despite that Raptor Lake (by Intel’s own admission ) is a «stopgap» between Alder Lake and Meteor Lake, it has significant changes to its design while carrying forward much of Alder Lake. It’s a given that the vaunted 6-GHz clock rate will only be on the processor’s P-cores, but if you’re buying a 6-GHz CPU, you’re looking for the highest single-threaded performance, and the P-cores are where you’ll find it.
Speaking excitedly at Intel’s Innovation event this morning, CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel’s 13th-generation Core processors, codenamed «Raptor Lake.» We’ve already covered the chips at large , but as a separate part of the announcement, Pat confirmed that Intel will be releasing a 6-GHz version of Raptor Lake early next year.
