Tuesday, December 13th 2022
Intel Plans "Raptor Lake Refresh" Core Desktop Processors for Q3-2023, "Sapphire Rapids 64L" HEDT in Q1
Intel is planning to refresh its desktop processor product stack with new "Raptor Lake Refresh" SKUs in Q3-2023, according to a leaked roadmap. At this point it's unclear if these are just new SKUs within the 13th Gen Core desktop product stack, or if they'll form the 14th Gen Core family, much in the same way as "Coffee Lake Refresh" formed the 9th Gen Core, replacing the 8th Gen Core "Coffee Lake." At this point we don't know what constitutes "Raptor Lake Refresh," but it provides Intel's product managers with the opportunity to increase CPU core-counts across the product stack without needing a new silicon (the Raptor Lake silicon has 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores), slightly higher clock-speeds, and other improvements. We don't know if this will herald a new CPU socket or platform at this point, either.
The most interesting item in this leaked roadmap slide has to be the reference to the "mainstream workstation" segment, with products in the 250 W TDP bracket. The so-called "Sapphire Rapids 64L" could be a cut-down version of the "Sapphire Rapids" enterprise processor on a new socket, backed by the Intel W790 chipset. The "64L" part of the codename could be a reference to its PCIe Gen 5 lane count of 64, which is less than the 112 available to the full "Sapphire Rapids" silicon in its W-3400 product-stack. It's unclear if these processors feature a Core X branding like their predecessors from the "Cascade Lake-X" family, or Xeon W. Besides fewer PCIe lanes, Intel could also segment these chips with fewer DDR5 memory channels, though both the PCIe and DDR5 connectivity will be much wider than those of the "Raptor Lake-S" mainstream desktop processors.
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The most interesting item in this leaked roadmap slide has to be the reference to the "mainstream workstation" segment, with products in the 250 W TDP bracket. The so-called "Sapphire Rapids 64L" could be a cut-down version of the "Sapphire Rapids" enterprise processor on a new socket, backed by the Intel W790 chipset. The "64L" part of the codename could be a reference to its PCIe Gen 5 lane count of 64, which is less than the 112 available to the full "Sapphire Rapids" silicon in its W-3400 product-stack. It's unclear if these processors feature a Core X branding like their predecessors from the "Cascade Lake-X" family, or Xeon W. Besides fewer PCIe lanes, Intel could also segment these chips with fewer DDR5 memory channels, though both the PCIe and DDR5 connectivity will be much wider than those of the "Raptor Lake-S" mainstream desktop processors.
28 Comments on Intel Plans "Raptor Lake Refresh" Core Desktop Processors for Q3-2023, "Sapphire Rapids 64L" HEDT in Q1
I'm guessing Meteor Lake was pushed back because of Intel 4 delays; I have a hard time believing that Foveros, EMIB or the TSMC tiles are responsible. The current roadmap is treating Meteor Lake the exact same way as Rocket Lake - launching in the same year as its successor, not a great future for 14th gen, unless they're betting against their own 15th gen product...
Though, cutting Meteor Lake down to 6 P-cores while keeping 15th gen at 8+16 just seems like another vote of no-confidence in 14th gen, from Intel themselves.
Besides, is there even any clock headroom left for refreshing 13th gen? 13700K and 13900K pushed pretty hard already.
As usual, I have zero expectations from a refresh, but I will take any improvements (as minor as they may be) as a welcome bonus.
by time 2030 is here intel be requiring one of these ones
If it was as near as 2023 then we would have seen some leaks of a new X series chipset but who knows may be another Asus Dominus Extreme may rise with server chipset and W series processor to dominate.
Moore delays, moore chances to put forth yet moore miniscule, nearly-insiginificant improvements to wring us out of even moar of our $$ A G A I N....:(
It will get to compete with Genoa X3D and Bergamo. AMD needs to treat the workstation users better and not dump threadripper so half hazardly.
As for Meteor lake, I would guess that it is in a state similar to 10nm SuperFin at the time of Tiger lake. Based on Intel's current management policy, it does not appear that they are close to Cannon Lake.
Meteor lake is far more interesting, but only for its improved LPDDR5X controller and 128/192eu Xe HGP graphics chip, for the implications it will bring to the mobile space and competition against AMD's Radeon 680m. Hopefully those still come out in 2023, I'm going to be in need of a new laptop eventually.