The high-end Core i9-13900HK and Core i7-13700H processors are among the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs that Intel is getting ready to introduce. There will be two performance-focused CPU segments in the 13th Gen Raptor Lake mobility portfolio. The Raptor Lake-H55 and Raptor Lake HX SKUs will be available.
The HX components will have a die configuration more akin to the desktop options, while the H55 parts will use a die configuration optimized for thin gaming laptops. The Raptor Lake-HX series will have up to 24 cores and 32 threads, while the H55 CPUs will have up to 14 cores and 20 threads.
The Core i9-13900HK and Core i7-13700H are the two processors that have been exposed. This is the first time a Core branding for laptop CPUs has been observed. Although Intel did unveil a brand-new naming scheme for its entry-level CPUs, those don’t include the Core components. The CoreT SKUs might be TDP-optimized variations or simply a mistaken “TM” identification by the Geekbench database.
The Intel CoreT i9-13900HK and CoreT i7-13700H CPUs were installed in a Samsung 960XFH laptop and had base clock rates of 2.60 GHz and 2.40 GHz, respectively.
While the Core i7-13700H ran at a maximum frequency of 5.0 GHz but averaged around 3.70 GHz, the Core i9-13900HK operated at up to 5.4 GHz boost clocks. The enormous difference between the maximum and average clock frequencies suggests two things. Either the CPUs were severely thermally throttled, or these are engineering prototypes that have not yet had their clock management tuned.
In a recent investor relations meeting, Intel announced that the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs for mobile platforms will debut in late 2022, following the desktop launch. Later today at the forthcoming Innovation event, Intel might also unveil their 13th Gen Raptor Lake mobile CPUs with the desktop chips.
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