Intel Raptor Lake Launch and Availability Dates Revealed

[TheLostSwede]

A post on Chinese forum Bilibili has revealed more exact details with regards to when Intel's Raptor Lake series of processors will launch and if nothing changes between now and then, the K and KF SKU's should be announced as previously thought, at the Intel Innovation '22 event that kicks off on the 27th of September. Retail availability, alongside Z790 motherboards should be about a month later, starting the week of the 17th of October. We've confirmed these dates with our own sources, but as always with early information, these things can change.

The rest of the Raptor Lake family of CPUs, as well as the H770 and B760 chipsets are expected to launch at CES 2023 in January and the poster on Bilibili claims that retail sales should be sometime in the second half of January. We've not been able to confirm the latter information here. As per older rumours, Intel is expected to change the PCIe lane allocation for the Z790 chipset compared to Z690 and based on the information posted, Z790 will have 20 PCIe 4.0 and eight PCIe 3.0 lanes, vs. 12 PCIe 4.0 and 16 PCIe 3.0 for the Z690 chipset. Raptor Lake is also said to get native support for faster DDR5 5600 memory, rather than just 4800 MHz DDR5 for Alder Lake. There are apparently no changes to the CPU PCIe lanes and DDR4 support is still here, but once again, no changes have been made to the DDR4 memory controller.



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[ModEl4]

Sad news regarding the non-K SKUs.
I was hoping this year for a below $199 13400F with 7600X performance in multithreading apps like Cinebench and only -5% slower in 1080p gaming.

 

[Max(IT)]

I’m worried about low single thread gains leaked so far… zen 4 is right behind the corner

 

[AnotherReader]

It looks like this will be available before Zen 4. AMD should have released Zen 4 before this, but they're probably prioritizing Genoa.

 

[Max(IT)]

Sad news regarding the non-K SKUs.
I was hoping this year for a below $199 13400F with 7600X performance in multithreading apps like Cinebench and only -5% slower in 1080p gaming.

How do you know 7600X gaming performance?

 

[ixi]

How do you know 7600X gaming performance?

Answer for ya, he doesn't know.

 

[Why_Me]

Sad news regarding the non-K SKUs.
I was hoping this year for a below $199 13400F with 7600X performance in multithreading apps like Cinebench and only -5% slower in 1080p gaming.

Intel always launches the unlocked cpu's and Z boards a few months before launching the rest of the lineup ($$$).

 

[ModEl4]

How do you know 7600X gaming performance?

It's my estimation I wouldn't know for sure of course, why?
I didn't say equivalent to 7600X, I said -5% from 7600X at 1080p.
It was a ballpark figure, if you want a more accurate number it's -6.5% in 1080p.
And without being too analytical this means around -9% in academic 720p if you check TPU's 720p/1080p deltas.
Time will tell of course if the assumption was wrong or not!

Intel always launches the unlocked cpu's and Z boards a few months before launching the rest of the lineup ($$$).

You don't say?
And how many times this happened the last 12 years? (Q1 2011 Sandy Bridge till Q1 2023 Raptor Lake non-K)
Please check first and reply again...

 

[Why_Me]

It's my estimation I wouldn't know for sure of course, why?
I didn't say equivalent to 7600X, I said -5% from 7600X at 1080p.
It was a ballpark figure, if you want a more accurate number it's -6.5% in 1080p.
And without being too analytical this means around -9% in academic 720p if you check TPU's 720p/1080p deltas.
Time will tell of course if the assumption was wrong or not!


You don't say?
And how many times this happened the last 12 years? (Q1 2011 Sandy Bridge till Q1 2023 Raptor Lake non-K)
Please check first and reply again...

10th, 11th and 12 gen lineups ... unlocked cpu's and Z boards first, rest of the lineup afterwards.

 

[ModEl4]

10th, 11th and 12 gen lineups ... unlocked cpu's and Z boards first, rest of the lineup afterwards.

I did suggest to search first, didn't I?
My post had nothing to do with chipsets, I only commented about K & non-K CPUs.
10th gen was concurrent (30th of April 2020) and 11th gen was again concurrent (30th of March 2021)
So only one time the last 12 years (12th gen)

 

[Deleted member 185088]

The war is on!

 

[outpt]

So, these new hedt will be called bank ripper,I suppose.

 

[Why_Me]

So, these new hedt will be called bank ripper,I suppose.

That would be Zen 4 if the price of DDR5 doesn't come down soon.

 

[ravenhold]

Why are they not launching B760 boards and F CPUs at once.

 

[AlwaysHope]

Believe nothing until actual reviews are done.

 

[Hardware Geek]

Why are they not launching B760 boards and F CPUs at once.

Early adopters are more likely to pay the premium associated with the highest end skus which generally offer higher margins.

 

[Niceumemu]

Early adopters are more likely to pay the premium associated with the highest end skus which generally offer higher margins.

There is also the fact that mid range and lower end SKUs are much more commonly used in pre built systems and need to ship in the highest volume. Releasing the more niche products that don't have as much demand allows them to build up that needed stock to sell to Dell, HP, etc so they can switch off the old gen and don't need to build both new and old gen at the same time.

Edit: gen was auto corrected to green

 

[Hardware Geek]

There is also the fact that mid range and lower end SKUs are much more commonly used in pre built systems and need to ship in the highest volume. Releasing the more niche products that don't have as much demand allows them to build up that needed stock to sell to Dell, HP, etc so they can switch off the old green and don't need to build both new and old green at the same time.

That's a fair point too. It certainly isn't going to hurt them to start with the high end and enjoy the press coverage on top of the margins.

 

[Deleted member 24505]

Early adopters are more likely to pay the premium associated with the highest end skus which generally offer higher margins.

Did that with my 12700k/z690. Would not do it again, also would not advise anyone to buy ADL or RL you will be on the receiving end of the anti intel vitriol that exists on TPU. I will not be posting in any Intel thread any more.

I will probably ditch my ADL setup and buy AM5 instead.

 

[erocker]

It looks like this will be available before Zen 4. AMD should have released Zen 4 before this, but they're probably prioritizing Genoa.

AMD's Zen 4 lineup is still scheduled to release a month before. Though, they sure are being quiet about it.

 

[efikkan]

I’m worried about low single thread gains leaked so far… zen 4 is right behind the corner

Do you expect a major architectural upgrade every year?
I would be happy just to get a minor improvement instead of "pointless" refreshes.

 

[Beer4Myself]

Did that with my 12700k/z690. Would not do it again, also would not advise anyone to buy ADL or RL you will be on the receiving end of the anti intel vitriol that exists on TPU. I will not be posting in any Intel thread any more.

I will probably ditch my ADL setup and buy AM5 instead.

Is it really so bad that you want to change your plattform because some twats cant handle that ADL is overall a better plattform than Zen3 if you build new (if the price is right). The only drawback i could remember that it needs more juice for some workloads.

 

[ixi]

Why are they not launching B760 boards and F CPUs at once.

To cash grab from those who can't wait for lower end parts.

 

[Why_Me]

To cash grab from those who can't wait for lower end parts.

This ^^

 

[Deleted member 24505]

My board and CPU when ADL had near just come out was £700