Intel Raptor Lake CPUs would get a generous boost from L2 and L3 cache size compared to the current Alder Lake, thus providing processors with Intel 13th generation with major architectural changes compared to current processors. Leaks from a well-known information leaker through his Twitter account -he has already reported specific details about AMD and Intel in the past- drop that Intel Raptor Lake would have 68 MB of cache without counting its L1, that is, it would add L2+L3 again.
Intel Raptor Lake would bring more than double the cache
According to the information collected by the different leaks, which comes from channels that in one way or another have always given quite correct information, the scheme of Raptor Lake would be like this, with respect toLeader Lake.
- Raptor Cove Cores, would go from 1.25 to 2MB of L2 cache.
- cores Greacemont, increase from 2 to 4MB of L2 cache.
- The L3 cache would increase in size from 30 MB to 36MB
68M cache is interesting.π
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With this in hand, we can foresee a somewhat unusual situation, it is not impossible, but it is unlikely for the current situation in the absence of much more information about these new processors.
It should be noted that this is still a rumor since a leak, since increasing the cache increases latency at the cost of higher performance (at least theoretically) but within a heterogeneous architecture such as Intel’s, doubling values ββis less than likely without very serious improvements in the hierarchy system and especially the frequency of the ring.
It is a different situation from what we have been able to see with AMD EPYC and V-Cache, where AMD is MCM with a ring -Infinity Fabric- which is far superior in performance to Intel in terms of bandwidth.
One year leaks, 700 series plates
The Raptor Lake are expected by the end of the year, surely after the summer, but they do not stop leaking and heating up the rumor mill in the sector. There are already many details that have been known: since its voltage regulator which would improve its efficiency consumption up to 25% or that these would arrive with up to 24 cores and 32 threads (unlikely). Within these leaks, it has also been known that BIOSTAR already has its motherboards ready for the next generation Z790 and B760.
The BIOSTAR motherboards for the 700 series, which were leaked through a Russian repository, include 12 models, three of them for the Z790 series and the rest B760 models, which we detail below:
- Z790 VALKYRIE
- Z790GTA
- Z790A-SILVER
- B760GTQ
- B760M-SILVER
- B760GTN
- B760T-SILVER
- B760MX5-E PRO
- B760MX-PRO
- B760MX-C
- B760MX-E
- B760MH
In the absence of knowing more specific information about these motherboard models, it makes it clear that the LGA 1700/1800 socket as well as most features will still be in Raptor Lake. The problem is that there is speculation that the function of voltage and consumption reduction or DVLR could make these models of 700 series boards incompatible with current Alder Lake processors.
Or what is the same, Raptor Lake could not be compatible despite having the same anchor and socket, at least on paper. Everything pointed to the opposite, to compatibility, but this latest rumor points to significant changes that we still cannot understand what they have to do with the chipset. Perhaps everything flows through the power management of the motherboard rather than the chip itself and its characteristics. We will have to wait.
