This is not the first time that Intel reserves some of its processors to the Chinese market alone without anyone really understanding why.
At the very beginning of last year, Intel indicated that the Core i5-12490F would only be released in China. A geographical constraint that the American company seems to have to impose on two other chips, Raptor Lake range this time.
A 13790F with 33 MB of cache
Just yesterday, we were actually talking about the probable launch of the Core i5-13490F, a processor that makes the link between the 13400 and the 13500 by adopting the number of cores of the former, but increasing its cache memory and taking over the frequencies of the seconds.
In the process, there was talk of another “intermediate” processor, the Core i7-13790F. This uses the same number of cores as the 13700 (8 efficient and 8 efficient), but boosts the third-level cache memory a little by increasing to 33 MB. On the other hand, it is interesting to note that the maximum operating frequency (boost) is lower. With 100 MHz less (5.1 GHz) than that of the 13700, we are thus much closer to the 13600.
The 13490F cheaper than the 13400F
These two processors will eventually be part of a somewhat special range, the Raptor Lake “Black Series”. This name does not seem to have anything official and mainly refers to their packaging, in a black box instead of the traditional Intel blue.
More importantly, like the 12490F in its time, these Black Series do not seem to have to leave Chinese territory. The Core i5-13490F is priced at RMB 1,599 (about $186), slightly less than the 13400F, which launched at $196. The case of the Core i7-13790F is a little different in that it is currently not sold separately, it is part of CPU + motherboard kits. Still, its price also seems lower than that of the 13700F when it was launched.
While we sometimes wonder why AMD or Intel multiply the references of processors in this way, the real question that arises is: how can the American company reserve processors for the Chinese market without violating the restrictions imposed by the American government?
Source : VideoCardz
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