From Tom's Hardware: There will be two upcoming contenders from Intel's camp to compete with the best CPUs on the market. Raptor Lake Refresh processors are rumored for an October launch; meanwhile, Arrow Lake processors will arrive in 2024. German publication Igor's Lab has reportedly obtained Intel's internal performance projections for both forthcoming processor lineups.
One thing to remember is that the performance projections are rough estimates of the level of uplift that we could see from Raptor Lake Refresh and Arrow Lake. It does not indicate the final product performance, so take the numbers with a pinch of salt.
Intel used the Core i9-13900K as the basis of its performance projections. The chipmaker reportedly limited the Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors' PL1 and PL2 to 253W and the Arrow Lake part to 250W. The trio of processors appear to share the same core configuration: 8+16+1. But what's interesting is the power consumption. According to this preliminary data, Arrow Lake may be as power-hungry as Raptor Lake. Intel supposedly normalized the results based on the Core i9-13900K and 100% mark.
According to the charts, the Raptor Lake Refresh processors bring performance improvements between 1% to 3% over current Raptor Lake chips. The results look accurate since it is a refresh, after all. Like past refreshes, the new processors will arrive with better clock speeds. It remains to be seen just how much optimization is left in the Intel 7 node. Keeping our expectations in check, Raptor Lake Refresh likely won't break the 6 GHz barrier. At the moment, it's uncertain if Intel plans to bring another KS model to the market. Igor's Lab believes such a chip may have a 6.2 GHz boost clock.
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