Intel Raptor Lake-S 24C/32T CPU with Arc A770 makes its Appearance on UserBenchmark

Nivedita Bangari

Jun 3

Although Intel just provided a brief view of the next 13th generation Raptor Lake components in action, early samples have begun to appear on various benchmarking sites. The newest such leak comes from UserBenchmark, which shows a Raptor Lake CPU with 24 cores and 32 threads in action.

Raptor Lake will witness an increase in core counts from Alder Lake, which is previously known. The Core i9-12900K from Alder Lake had 16 cores (8P + 8E) and 24 threads. Raptor Lake is planned to increase core counts to 24 and thread counts to 32. Eight of the 24 cores are Performance cores, while the remaining 16 are Efficiency cores.

The unnamed Raptor Lake-S part has a base clock of 2.4 GHz and a turbo of 4.6 GHz, according to the recent UserBenchmark listing

Given that AMD demonstrated a 16-core Ryzen 7000 prototype that boosts between 5.2 and 5.5 GHz, the boost clock appears to be relatively low. Intel has previously stated that it wants to target 5.5 GHz increases this time to maintain its single-core dominance.

However, the Raptor Lake boost is listed as an average boost clock that likely includes both P and E cores, so we should still be able to achieve greater frequencies with just the P-cores, even though this is most likely an engineering sample. The machine also looks to be using 32 GB of DDR5-4800 memory, which we expect to be replaced by faster DDR5 memory by the time Raptor Lake is released.

The mention of an Arc A770 Alchemist GPU in the benchmark is also noteworthy. The Arc A770 appears to be the key limiting element affecting the Raptor Lake system's benchmark scores. However, the benchmark does not appear to be fully compatible with this card at this time, as it can only identify 1 GB of VRAM.

Apart from this preliminary information, the benchmark entry itself does not reveal much. However, when compared to a Core i9-12900K system, the Raptor Lake configuration in issue ties with a 114 percent average bench score. However, because of the greater core/thread count, multi-core performance appears to be up to 32% better than the Core i9-12900K.

While Intel's impending dinosaur of a CPU is expected to deliver significant performance improvements over Alder Lake, the current comparison should be taken with a grain of salt.