Talking excitedly at Intel’s Innovation occasion this morning, CEO Pat Gelsinger introduced Intel’s Thirteenth-generation Core processors, codenamed “Raptor Lake.” We have already coated the chips at giant, however as a separate a part of the announcement, Pat confirmed that Intel might be releasing a 6-GHz model of Raptor Lake early subsequent 12 months.
We first heard about these plans two weeks in the past, nevertheless it wasn’t the identical as right now’s announcement. The new-clocked chip will most likely be named one thing like “Core i9-13900KS,” as that is actually finally the identical factor that Intel did with the 12900KS which boosted clocks to five.5 GHz from the 12900K’s 5.2 GHz. Pat mentioned it is going to come alongside someday firstly of subsequent 12 months, more likely to go head-to-head in opposition to the 3D V-Cache fashions of AMD’s just-released Ryzen 7000 sequence processors, that are anticipated to hit in the identical timeframe.
Pat declined to present any particulars on pricing for the brand new processor, however you’ll be able to anticipate it to be within the northern a part of three digits or probably even the early a part of 4 digits. Intel has bought a $1000 shopper CPU up to now, and it would not shock us if this true halo product additionally will get such a lofty price ticket. That mentioned, Intel struck deep on the excessive costs of NVIDIA’s Ada GPUs with its remarks on Arc, and the Core i9-13900K is surprisingly low cost at simply $589. The world’s first 6-GHz CPU might find yourself being cheaper than you suppose.
So far as availability goes, properly, it’s going to most likely be tight. We suspect that there will not be too many Raptor Lake cube that may hit 6 GHz without having extreme quantities of voltage. In the event you’re after what is going to absolutely be the very best stock-clocked CPU within the foreseeable future, you’d higher bounce on it as quickly because it’s out there.
