You can definitely give up Meteor Lake desktops: for desktop computers, the 14e generation of Core will be a simple Refresh of Raptor Lake.
Intel’s program for processors for the end of the year has raised many questions lately. According to the leaks, it has become quite obvious that the company plans to segment its desktop and laptop range, which has been unified since Alder Lake: laptops will be entitled to Meteor Lake, while desktop PCs will be satisfied with a Raptor Lake series. Refresh much less attractive. After the publication of a snapshot of an aborted Meteor Lake-S, Asus and MSI have removed the last doubts: the 14e generation of Core desktop will be a simple refresh of the current range.
Asus mentions a 14e generation of Core Raptor Lake-S Refresh
On its website, Asus devotes a page to the presentation of its motherboards on Z790, H770 and B760 chipsets. The presentation text states that “These ASUS and ROG Z790, H770 and B760 motherboards guarantee full support for Intel Core 12 processorse and 13e generation as well as the next generation”.
Only the tab of the page is more talkative, since it also evokes the 14e generation of Core, Raptor Lake-S Refresh.
The good news for users is that the LGA-1700 platform will support Raptor Lake Refreshes well (well, let’s be honest, there was no doubt about that). The bad news is that the 14e desktop generation excludes Meteor Lake. However, the latter are much more attractive, with in particular the adoption of Intel 4 (7 nm EUV) rather than Intel 7 (10 nm) engraving.
MSI hints at anemic generational gains
For its part, MSI has temporarily posted a video presenting its future products. The sequence revealed some very concrete information about the Raptor Lake Refresh.
Like Asus, the Taiwanese brand confirms that Raptor Lake Refresh is equivalent to the 14e generation of Core, evokes the absence of architectural evolution and attests that these chips will always be engraved in 10 nm.
Above all, MSI certifies that the Core i7-14700K will be the only processor to obtain more CPU cores than its model. For this reference, the refresh will bring 4 additional E-cores.
This increased amount of CPU cores will make this Core i7-14700K on average 17% more efficient than the Core i7-13700K. For the other Core Raptor Lake Refreshes, which won’t get any more cores, expect… 3% instead! Inevitably, the Core i5-14600K will be barely more powerful than the Core i5-13600K.
This improvement will be exclusively due to slightly higher frequencies, around 100 or 200 megahertz depending on the model, and to memory support that could natively manage DDR5-6400.
In short, user of fixed computers, if you want a real new generation, you will have to wait until the Arrow Lake-S, planned for 2024. These Cores will introduce a new socket (LGA-1851), will benefit from a new engraving as well as a new core architecture with, in particular, more L2 cache.
Sources: AsusMSI via VideoCardz
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