Lovers of new technologies, those waiting for the most revolutionary architectures already knew this: Raptor Lake is not cut from the same wood as Alder Lake. At Intel, the next major step will rather be to look for the Meteor Lake architecture that the American still hopes to offer us in the fall of 2023.
Should we therefore denigrate this new generation and is the Raptor as slow as we might have feared compared to the Alder Lake revolution? Our answer is a clear and solid no. First of all, the improvements made to the previous generation are very real and if we can doubt any optimization effort, the increase in the cache or the increase in the number of efficient cores provides, if not much, at least sufficient .
Enough for what? Obviously not to replace your Alder Lake CPU if you broke down a few months ago. On the other hand, enough to evolve an older platform, take advantage of the latest technologies and more assured, more complete support for DDR5 that is a little more accessible with each passing day.
While not being a real “Ryzen killer”, the Core i9-13900K is not cut to pieces by the 7950X and its 16 high-performance cores. It even beats AMD’s latest product in several application tests before supplanting it in most video games. Less energy efficient, Intel’s Raptor Lake is on the other hand cheaper and the cost of the AM5 platform is no longer an advantage for AMD solutions. The debates are more open than ever.
