According to the latest rumors from a well-known Chinese leaker, the desktop processor wars will continue next year between Raptor Lake (Intel’s plan to refresh the current 13th generation chips) and AMD’s Zen 4.
However, we’ll see at least some new chips in early 2023, at which point we can expect to see the new Raptor Lake flagship 13900KS, a CPU Intel is already touting with 6GHz boost speeds out of the box – pretty eye-popping A feat of vision.
According to ECSM (on Bilibili(opens in a new tab), via VideoCardz(opens in a new tab)), AMD’s answer to this will be a new 3D V-Cache version of the Ryzen 7000 processor – but these won’t be more than 8-core model, obviously. ECSM sees 6- and 8-core X3D spins on Zen 4 chips as inbound, but has no other plans and no more powerful 3D V-Cache processors (or at least not yet discovered).
We should see the 13900KS in the first half of 2023 or later, and possibly the Ryzen 5 7600X3D and Ryzen 7 7700X3D. So we’ll probably see the new chips actually shipping around April to June.
Apparently, later in the third quarter of 2023 (around September), Intel plans to update Raptor Lake, removing the main processor from the current lineup and increasing the clock speed by 100MHz to 200MHz.
So it’s just a matter of small increments, the key specs, core counts, etc. of these new processors will remain the same as the current 13th generation models.
Apparently, Intel’s next-generation CPUs — Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake — won’t launch next year at all, but in 2024. We still expect Meteor Lake to show up in 2023, although according to ECSM that’s not the case; but elsewhere in the rumor mill, it’s still a possibility. Naturally, add plenty of spice, and other info from the leaker here.
Nothing much doing for 2023, then?
Essentially, Intel isn’t going to do much next year — assuming, of course, that ECSM makes money off of these new rumors — and neither is AMD. We’ll get minor updates to the Raptor Lake chips, but Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake are still a long way off. Same with Zen 5, but we know it’s the case – Intel apparently changed plans, which is the bigger surprise.
That said, many were looking forward to seeing AMD come out with a powerful X3D variant, so it’s a little surprising to learn that we might not be able to. At least don’t start by any means, though to be fair, from a mainstream gaming standpoint, the 8-core 3D V-Cache model (probably the 7700X3D) would be interesting anyway. That’s the Ryzen chip that many expect to be the powerful processor that will give Intel trouble in 2023.
Presumably, Intel’s Meteor Lake will be configured with a high-end chip with 6 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores, which means no high-end desktop CPU version (other speculation suggests that the range may be more focused on mobile chips). Top desktop models ( The 8 performance cores of the Core i7, i9) are expected to be introduced alongside Arrow Lake, so both are now landing in 2024, covering different ends of the performance spectrum. Both Meteor and Arrow Lake will require a new socket and platform, and should be up against Zen 5 in 2024.
In the meantime, though, 2023 sounds pretty quiet when it comes to processors…
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