‘Core i7 from Raptor Lake Refresh will have twenty cores, twelve of which will be E-cores’ – Computer – News

The Core i7 variant of Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh can have a complete of twenty cores. The variety of E-cores will increase within the i7-14700K from eight to 12, says Moore’s Legislation Is Lifeless based mostly on roadmaps and sources.

Moore’s Legislation Is Lifeless says in a video that the core depend for the upcoming Refresh of the Raptor Lake i7 will enhance. The Core i7-14700K can have twenty cores, the place the present Core i7-13700K nonetheless has sixteen. This is because of a rise within the environment friendly cores or the E-cores. The present Raptor Lake mannequin has eight Efficiency cores and eight E cores, however in accordance with Moore’s Legislation Is Lifeless and in accordance with another leakers does the refresh have extra of these E-cores. That additionally means the i7-14700K has an additional cluster for these cores. The L3 cache additionally will increase in measurement; within the new model of the soc this goes from 30 to 33MB.

One of many leakers, @wnxod, says he has already handed the brand new CPU via CPU-Z and Cinebench. It reveals that the brand new i7-14700K has a base clock pace of three.7GHz and a most increase clock pace of 5.5GHz, which is greater than the 5.4GHz of the present mannequin. Nonetheless, that’s in regards to the pace on the P-cores and never the additional E-cores, which normally work at clock speeds between 3 and 4GHz.

Out a earlier roadmap it already appeared that Intel desires to launch the Raptor Lake Refresh later this yr. These fashions are anticipated to be launched in October of this yr. It turned out that the fashions can have 14 to 24 cores.