CES 2023: Intel showcases its latest 13th generation processors

 

CES 2023 has already begun, and as expected, the blue giant Intel has come up with a slew of new products. These processors all come as part of the company's 13th-generation "Raptor Lake" series, the latest and biggest yet from the chipmaker.

 

While the Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake lineup was announced in September of 2022 on the same day that competing company AMD launched its new line of Ryzen 7000 processors, the blue giant at the time launched only a few processors at the desktop level.

 

And now, Intel has finally revealed more of its 13th-generation chips, including a plethora of mobile options for laptops. This is very important because while CPU speed and its power efficiency are keys in desktop computers, they are even more important in laptops, which are usually evaluated based on how much you can do before running out of power. the battery.

 

Intel's recent advancements in laptop chips have coincided with meaningful improvements in mobile performance, but what you can often notice lately is that Intel chips are underperforming in terms of energy efficiency compared to the latest chips from Apple and AMD. So we have to wait and see what the new processors will achieve.

 

  The most powerful new laptop chip of the new Raptor Lake series processors is the Intel Core i9-13980HX, which according to Intel is the world's first 24-core mobile CPU, and its cores can be overclocked to achieve speeds of up to 5.6GHz.

 

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desktop processors

 

Intel unveiled 16 new Raptor Lake-series desktop processors at CES 2023 that will help fill in the blanks, which include massive processors like the Core i9-13900K ($589). The new Raptor Lake desktop processors span a wide range of options, from the relatively low-power Core i3-13100F ($109), all the way up to the Core i9-13900 and Core I9-13900T ($549 each). With different levels of power consumption, but it comes with base rates (PBP) of either 65 watts or 35 watts.

 

It is worth noting here that with the new Alder Lake processors, Intel has begun to classify processors by what is called PBP, so that 65-watt processors can provide more initial power when loaded than 35-watt ones. The 35W and 65W max Raptor Lake Core i9 desktop processors are priced at the same price ($549) and come equipped with almost the same specifications, except that the 65W model has higher frequencies, reaching 5.6GHz, while the 35 model stops watts at 5.3GHz.

 

laptops processors

 

But what was surprising in the presentation, in general, was not the above, but the fact that the company announced 32 mobile processors in the Raptor Lake lineup, including the first mobile processor with 24 cores. The new processors of course cover a wide range of power levels, from high-end 55W "HX" chips for high-performance laptops to low-power P and U chips.

 

As for the most powerful processor, the i9-13950HX, it comes with 24 cores, which provides up to 11% better single-threading performance and up to 49% better multitasking performance than the latest generation flagship Intel Core processor. i9-12900HX in benchmarking conducted by Intel internally using SPEC CPU 2017 benchmarking software.

 

By these metrics, the new high-end Raptor Lake laptop chip easily beats Apple's M1 Max and M2 chips in the same benchmarks, which is a clear shot at Apple's silicon. But of course, we already knew that the Intel Alder Lake chips beat the Apple M1 Max in terms of speed - they also suck more power.

 

Intel also claims that these new top mobile Raptor Lake processors can deliver performance improvements of up to 12% over the last generation, based on tests with the MSI Titan GT77 HX gaming laptop featuring Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU...

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Intel also unveiled 12 new P and U series chips that are optimized to increase power efficiency over performance. To give you an idea of how it differs in terms of raw power consumption, the 24-core Intel Core i9-13980HX has a base rate of 55W and consumption at max turbo mode of 157W, while the weakest Raptor Lake U-series chips (such as The New Core i3-1305U) has 5 cores and a base consumption of 15W, with consumption in max turbo mode of only 55W.