CPU, APU & Chipsets News - Page 26

We've seen yet more evidence that Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh processors are set to hit the shelves within the next three months.

This comes from a report by Chinese tech site IT Home, which was present at the Bilibili World exhibition (in Shanghai), and spoke to a PC maker there (as flagged up by VideoCardz).

That PC manufacturer, Mechenike, was showing off some of its incoming products for later this year, including gaming desktops and mini PCs (quite flashy looking efforts that incorporate water cooling and RGB goodness aplenty).

A bunch of new info has been spilled about Intel's future processor ranges by a well-known YouTuber, and we've caught sight of Beast Lake again - potentially highly performant chips that could be specially designed for gaming.

Before we dive into Beast Lake - which is purportedly still a good way down the line - let's look at what's due before this, focusing on the desktop processors, as laid out by Moore's Law is Dead (MLID).

So, as we know, Intel has Raptor Lake Refresh processors to follow current-gen Raptor Lake, landing later this year. Following that, there's Arrow Lake that'll debut late in 2024 (except for the flagship, maybe). After that, things get a bit cloudier, so MLID steps in with his latest theorized release schedule for Intel.

The rumors around Intel's Arrow Lake processors are starting to pile up, and the latest one is a bit of a shocker in all honesty - that the chips which will follow next-gen Raptor Lake Refresh will do away with hyper-threading.

Yes, you read that right - hyper-threading will apparently fall by the wayside with 15th-gen silicon, according to the latest video packed full of Intel leaks from Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) on YouTube.

The good news is that MLID has aired rumors in the past promising huge gains for Arrow Lake - we're talking the CPUs being up to 40% faster than Meteor Lake (the Core i5 desktop offering that was supposedly canceled) in multi-core - and that kind of huge gain still holds true. In other words, the sample processors used to produce that major (rumored) uplift already had hyper-threading disabled.

Another leak has sprung around Intel's inbound Raptor Lake Refresh processors, and it again underlines that the Core i5-14600 won't up its core count.

You may recall that a previous rumor suggested the Core i5-14600 (and 14600K) would have 8 performance cores plus 8 efficiency cores (8+8), upping the performance core count by 2 from the 13600 - which would be a bold step.

However, that isn't the case according to another (more recent) leak from Benchlife, which claimed the 14600 will stick with a 6+8 configuration - and that's now backed up by this new leak from chi11eddog, a regular hardware rumor-monger on Twitter.

AMD's Zen 5 processors have been grabbing some limelight in the rumor mill of late, and a fresh sighting of the CPUs has been made.

As Tom's Hardware spotted, the developer of the AIDA64 benchmarking suite has just added preliminary support for Zen 5 chips.

Specifically, the AIDA64 Engineer 6.90 software release notes make it clear that Zen 5 (Ryzen 8000) processors can now be recognized.

A new leak on Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors backs up previous theories about the Core i7-14700K getting more cores - but also knocks back another rumor about the same being true of the Core i5-14600K.

The leak comes from Benchlife, a Chinese tech site - so add the usual heap of seasoning - and it contends that the Core i7-14700K will have 8 performance cores alongside 12 efficiency cores.

That's a few sources now claiming this, so this particular rumor is starting to carry more weight - which is great news and likely to make this a popular chip among the Raptor Lake Refresh line-up.

AMD's Zen 5 processors, which will presumably be the Ryzen 8000 desktop family, are due next year, and a YouTube leaker reckons these chips could be quite something.

This is RedGamingTech (RGT) on YouTube, who has rather revised their expectations around Zen 5 performance in recent times. Previously, the leaker floated the idea of a 25% increase in performance over Zen 4, before dialing that back slightly to a 20% uplift being more likely.

However, the latest spillage from RGT is again optimistic that AMD might achieve more than 20%.

Intel's Arrow Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh desktop CPUs are the subject of a new illuminating leak that comes directly from Team Blue.

At least this is what we're told, with Igor's Lab having got hold of Intel's internal performance projections for its incoming next two generations of processors.

Igor observes that these projections can be considered 'realistic' given that this is material for consumption within Intel, and not a PR release, but we should treat this with a lot of caution (and we'll come back to some notable caveats, too).

Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors should arrive in a few months, and we've just been treated to a leak of the whole line-up, with some particularly interesting CPUs in the mid-range category.

YouTube leaker RedGamingTech (RGT) provided us with rumored core configurations for the Raptor Lake Refresh (14th-gen) desktop family, and we should regard these through seriously narrowed and skeptical eyes. As is the case with anything that comes trundling down the rails from rumor-town.

Without any further caveating, let's look at the purported chips and their respective core counts as RGT asserts they will be:

Intel's Core i7-14700K has been spotted in leaked benchmarks where it's a good deal faster than its predecessor, the 13700K.

The Cinebench R23 and CPU-Z results were flagged up on Twitter by @wxnod, and as ever, put on your skeptical hat (which should be donned for any leakage, which may or may not be genuine).

If true, the 14700K's Cinebench R23 result comes in at 2192 points and 36296 for single-core and multi-core respectively, which is 4% and 17% faster than the 13700K as VideoCardz (which spotted the leak) points out.