BIOSTAR’s Next-Gen Z790 & B760 Motherboards For Intel’s 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs Leak Out

We have just seen the release of Intel's mainstream 600-series motherboards & it looks like board makers are already in a rush to ready their next-gen 700-series offerings for the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs.

The BIOSTAR 700-series motherboards which include 12 upcoming variants were listed over at EEC. The models include three Z790 flavors and nine B760 flavors. The list can be seen below:

While we don't have specific information about these motherboards yet, what we do know is that the Z790 and B760 motherboards will be the successor to the existing Z790 and B660 offerings. It won't necessarily be a replacement since the new 700-series boards will still rock the same LGA 1700/1800 socket and most of the features with Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs will remain the same.

We can expect a few enhancements in terms of IO and maybe even the addition of more Gen 5 NVMe slots which will be a huge deal for storage enthusiasts later this year as Phison-powered SSDs hit the market. Since the motherboards are based on the same socket, they will be able to support both 12th Gen Alder Lake and 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs so users who want to upgrade to a new platform while retaining their existing CPU or use the latest 13th Gen CPUs on their 600 series motherboards can easily do so.

Replacing the Intel Alder Lake-S 12th Gen Core family, the Intel Raptor Lake-S lineup will be part of the 13th Gen Core family and feature two brand new core architectures. These architectures will be featuring Raptor Cove as performance cores & an enhanced Gracemont core which will be serving as efficiency cores.

Intel Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPU Lineup & Configurations

According to previously leaked data, the lineup will consist of three segments that were leaked out in the recent power recommendations. These include the 'K' series enthusiast SKUs rated at 125W, 65W mainstream SKUs, and 35W low-power SKUs. Coming to the top-end variants, we will be getting up to 24 cores followed by 16 core, 10 core, 4 core, and 2 core variants. The SKUs are detailed below:

The enthusiast 125W Intel Raptor Lake-S Desktop SKUs will feature Core i9 models featuring up to 8 Raptor Cove cores and 16 Gracemont cores for a total of 24 cores and 32 threads. Intel's Core i7 lineup will consist of 16 core (8+8), Core i5 models will consist of 14 core (6+8) and 10 core (6+4) & finally, we have the Core i3 models which will feature 4 cores but without any efficiency cores. The lineup will also include Pentium SKUs which will feature just 2 Raptor Cove cores. All Core variants will feature a 32 EU (256 core) enhanced Xe integrated GPU. Certain Core i5 and Pentium variants will also come configured with 24 EU and 16 EU iGPUs.

Intel Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPU Platform Details

Other details include a larger L2 cache which will be branded as Intel's own 'Game Cache' for Core CPUs and clock speeds will feature a boost clock bump of 200 MHz so we can expect up to 5.5 GHz boost clocks considering Alder Lake-S Desktop CPUs will top out at 5.3 GHz.

The Intel Raptor Lake-S chips will also support faster DDR5 memory speeds of up to 5600 Mbps (6500 Mbps LPDDR5(X)) along with retaining support for DDR4 memory as reports suggest. It looks like there will be three main dies which will be configured into these SKUs starting with a top 'Large' die consisting of 8 Cove and 16 Atom cores, a 'Mid' die with 8 Core and 8 Atom cores, and lastly, a 'Small' die with 6 Cove cores and no Atom cores. The Intel Raptor Lake lineup will be compatible with the LGA 1700 socket though will utilize all 1800 contact pads and compete against AMD's Zen 4 powered Ryzen 7000 lineup. Expect more info by the second half of 2022 by Intel.

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