The crystal ball has been a bit opaque on the subject of predicting Intel’s subsequent technology CPU plans. Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake and a refresh of present gen Raptor Lake have all been mooted since present thirteenth Gen processors had been launched.
Intel has nearly definitely deserted Meteor Lake for desktops in favor of a refreshed Raptor Lake (which is itself a refresh of twelfth Gen Alder Lake). They’ll presumable earn the 14th Gen moniker. Now we now have a brand new rumor that factors to an October launch—proper in time for the vacation shopping for season.
The October date comes from Chinese language leaker ECSM, who additionally revealed launch home windows for Meteor Lake-H in This fall 2023 and Arrow Lake-S processors at late 2024 or early 2025. The Meteor Lake-H launch timeframe is anticipated, given the teasers and dealing laptops which have already been noticed.
ECSM says Intel will observe its now conventional launch cadence, starting with the discharge of Okay-series SKUs in October, with non-Okay fashions to observe nearer in direction of the tip of the yr simply in time for the Christmas shopping for season. The leak suggests there is a new 8 efficiency +12 effectivity core mannequin to fill the hole between the 8P+8E 13700 and 8P+16E 13900 fashions.
The cancellation of Meteor Lake-S for desktops is disappointing for these fanatics wanting ahead to Intel’s radically totally different tile primarily based structure – the true Alder Lake successor. A Raptor Lake refresh would look like an interim answer to fill the hole earlier than Arrow Lake desktop processors seem about 18 months from now.
We should not anticipate an excessive amount of in the way in which of improved efficiency from a Raptor Lake refresh. We are able to anticipate increased clocks, even increased than these of the i9 13900KS. We are able to anticipate a greater reminiscence controller, that means it will be simpler to run reminiscence within the DDR5-8000 vary or increased.
However sadly, at Computex we heard rumors of elevated energy consumption too. That might be disappointing given the cooling and energy necessities of present thirteenth gen chips, or no less than the fanatic class ones. There’s little to complain about decrease within the vary, with chips just like the i5 13400 delivering superior effectivity.
A welcome piece of stories is that Raptor Lake refresh chips will drop into 700 sequence motherboards with only a BIOS replace (and certainly most, if not all 600 sequence boards too). Meaning a 14th Gen chip might present fairly an improve for these with twelfth Gen chips. These in search of a brand new 700-series motherboard can have some choices too, with new characteristic wealthy fashions inbound.
Now that DDR5 costs have dropped like a rock from a yr in the past, 700 sequence boards are plentiful and 14th Gen CPUs are coming quickly, the potential is there for fairly the price efficient improve later this yr. We’ll have to attend some time for next-next gen however as they’re going to observe no less than a yr after Raptor Lake refresh, many customers will definitely be compelled to tug the set off on 14th Gen upgrades.
