Intel lifted the veil on 3rd-party independent performance analysis of its new 13th Gen Core series processors, otherwise known by the code name Raptor Lake. From Intel’s faster Raptor Cove Performance Cores that bring up to an additional 600MHz of peak boost clock speed, to faster and more Efficiency Cores on board (now up to 16), and larger caches, this new generation of Intel CPUs brings significant gains across the company’s entire desktop product stack and even stiffer competition to rival AMD’s recently announced Ryzen 7000 series. What’s also readily apparent in this launch is that the Santa Clara bellwether continues to tune its Intel 7 chip fab process, which now is in its 3rd generation of the company’s SuperFin transistor tech, that has helped deliver these gains across the power and frequency curve.

Couple these increased resources with support for faster DDR5-5600MHz memory speeds, a 900MHz faster compute fabric and a larger and smarter (dynamic INI algorithm assisted) 36MB L3 cache as well (up from 30MB), and it’s clear Intel 7 optimizations have been kind to the 13th Gen Core design team, affording more on-chip resources and faster clock speeds all around. In fact, Intel’s performance claims are that Raptor Lake will deliver a 15-percent uplift in single-threaded throughput and a big 41-percent lift in multi-threaded throughput, which should culminate in up to 24% better gaming performance and 34% faster content creation performance.