Intel is preparing to release “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors, which will be introduced as the 14th generation of the Core family, although it will only be an incremental improvement of the 13th generation “Raptor Lake” line. On Sunday (09), the alleged details of these chips were revealed in a post by Monk Upgrade the golden pig.
The informant believes that the new processors of the “HX” line – aimed at high-performance laptops – It will have an increase in the L2 cache. It appears that Intel has adopted a new manufacturing strategy that will allow it to offer the largest internal memory capacity of the more advanced models in more basic and affordable variants.
In semiconductor production, it is common for manufacturers to design only a few chip models to develop a production line, allowing defective modules to be reused in the form of other products.
To be clear, NVIDIA’s AD104 GPU powers the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070, however, the latter has disabled cores – i.e. faulty cores are disabled by default at the factory – to configure as a cheaper product, avoiding waste of chips and raw materials.
However, Intel is supposed to stop manufacturing chips from the “HX” line in configurations 8 + 8 (8 high-performance cores + 8 low-consumption cores) and 6 + 0 (6 high-performance cores), and manufacture only 8 + 16 matrices, using Its the most powerful processors of the line and has the largest cache capacity in the CPU.
a Core i5 and Core i7 models will benefit from the change in strategy from intel. The Intel Core i7-14650HX processor must have an 8 + 8 configuration (using an 8 + 16 matrix, but with 8 low-power cores disabled). This means that the supposed model will have 20% more threads than its predecessor, the Core i7-13650HX.
The Core i7-14700HX should now have 8 + 12 cores, in addition to the Core i7-14850HX. Core i5-14500HX, in turn, should have 6 + 8 cores. All models should take advantage of the larger L2 cache capabilities, and may be looking to compete with AMD’s Infinity Cache technology.
Finally, the Upgrade the golden pig It claims that the Core i9 models of the 14th generation “HX” line will have similar core specs to the 13th generation, but with Boost clock up to 200MHzwhich can guarantee a slight increase in performance (and power consumption) compared to the current generation models.
In addition to the 14th generation Core, this year Intel is also preparing to launch the “Meteor Lake” line, which will mark the transition to the new “Intel 4” lithography and the “Core Ultra” designation. At the moment, the exact release dates are still unknown.
