Rumor: Intel Raptor Lake chips are getting 8 Raptor Cove and 16 Gracemont cores

Intel is rumored to release a processor generation called Raptor Lake at the end of 2022, which consists of up to eight powerful and sixteen energy-efficient cores. Raptor Lake would be the successor to Alder Lake, which Intel would unveil this year.

Raptor Lake’s powerful cores would be codenamed Raptor Cove and would be optimized Golden Cove cores from Alder Lake. Both are processors with a heterogeneous computing design similar to ARM’s big.Little design. That ‘s what Moore’s Law is Dead claims , a YouTube channel that previously correctly released Intel information. The improvements would concern the instructions per clock , clock speed and efficiency. The frugal cores are Gracemont cores, of which Intel will use up to eight at Alder Lake, but with Raptor Lake it would be sixteen Gracemont cores. Raptor Lake would support the LGA1700 socket, just like Alder Lake.

Moores Law is Dead also reports new details about Alder Lake. Intel would like to unveil the K-series of the Alder Lake S processor generation for the desktop in October this year, which would be processors with a TDP of 125W. A Core i9-K would then consist of eight Golden Cove and eight Gracemont cores, while the Core i7 would offer eight powerful and four economical and a Core i5 would offer six Golden Cove and four Gracemont cores. The chips support PCIe 5.0 and socket LGA1700 and have a Xe generation UHD GPU with 32 execution units.

In early 2022, Intel would then announce Alder Lake’s less powerful A-series for the desktop and the frugal P and M-series for laptops. The company is also planning an HX series for powerful laptops such as gaming laptops. These should be released in Q2 2022 and then have up to eight Golden Cove and eight Gracemont cores, and TDPs from 45W to 65W.