From PC World: Firing a shot back at AMD official Ryzen reveal, Intel officials said the upcoming 13th gen “Raptor Lake” desktop CPUs will hit 6GHz. Intel’s boost clock of 6GHz for its upcoming chip was revealed at a press event at the company’s famous Haifa design center in Israel, according to numerous press reports.
Much of the briefing is under embargo for the launch of the CPU later this year, but company officials did confirm some performance claims which was covered by Paul Alcorn of Tom’s Hardware here. Alcorn reports that the 13th gen Raptor Lake is touting a 15 percent improvement in single-threaded performance and an eye-opening 41 percent increase performance in multi-threaded performance using SPECintrate_2017. Many consumers may not be familiar with the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, but it’s a decades-old industry organization where hardware designers themselves agree what the meaning of “performance” is and to measure it.
Raptor Lake’s 6GHz clock comes two weeks after AMD unveiled that its Ryzen 7000 chips will boost up to 5.7GHz. While both CPUs essentially operate on their own different scales due to power and thermal limits as well as internal core designs, clock speeds still largely influence consumers. And although it’s just a 5.7 percent difference between AMD’s best Ryzen 7000 and Intel’s best 13th gen chip, a nice round 6GHz figure is going to matter more to consumers. The company also showed off liquid nitrogen overclocks of the Raptor Lake hitting 8GHz but that is far less significant for general consumers.
Although Intel is touting a 6GHz clock for 13th gen, it’s not clear if that will come immediately or if it will be limited to a far more special edition version of the chip, Alcorn notes. If it’s the latter, that’s less exciting than all top-end chips hitting 6GHz since “KS” parts usually demand a premium and are generally far more limited in distribution.
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