Thursday, April 11th 2024
Intel Discontinues 13th Generation "Raptor Lake" K-Series Overclockable CPU SKUs
Intel has decided to discontinue its entire 13th Gen Raptor Lake lineup of overclockable "K-series" CPU SKUs. According to an official product change notice, the company will stop accepting orders for chips like the Core i9-13900KS, Core i9-13900K, Core i9-13900KF, Core i7-13700K, Core i7-13700KF, Core i5-13600K, and Core i5-13600KF after May 24th, 2024. Final shipments to vendors are targeted for June 28th. After those dates, availability of the unlocked Raptor Lake processors will rapidly diminish as the remaining inventory gets sold off, possibly at inflated prices due to shortages. This discontinuation comes just over a year after Raptor Lake's launch in late 2022, which delivered additional performance improvements over the previous Alder Lake generation.
Raptor Lake brought higher clocks, more cache, additional efficiency cores, and enough muscle to compete with AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs in many workloads. Interestingly, Intel has not yet discontinued Alder Lake, suggesting those 12th-generation chips may still be available for some time. While the death of the overclockable Raptor Lake K-series CPUs is unfortunate for enthusiasts, there is an upside—it paves the way for Intel's current generation Raptor Lake refresh, 14th generation Core processors, to clear inventory before the next-generation processors arrive. The 15th generation "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 2 series of processors could be teased at the upcoming Computex event in June.
Sources:
Intel, via Tom's Hardware
Raptor Lake brought higher clocks, more cache, additional efficiency cores, and enough muscle to compete with AMD's Ryzen 7000 CPUs in many workloads. Interestingly, Intel has not yet discontinued Alder Lake, suggesting those 12th-generation chips may still be available for some time. While the death of the overclockable Raptor Lake K-series CPUs is unfortunate for enthusiasts, there is an upside—it paves the way for Intel's current generation Raptor Lake refresh, 14th generation Core processors, to clear inventory before the next-generation processors arrive. The 15th generation "Arrow Lake" Core Ultra 2 series of processors could be teased at the upcoming Computex event in June.
41 Comments on Intel Discontinues 13th Generation "Raptor Lake" K-Series Overclockable CPU SKUs
EDIT: PCN talks about "Product Discontinuation", I think Intel uses EOL for when the product is effectively dead for the company, as in no support. I think. Not fully sure.NevermindBX8071513700K with MM# 99C6A3
BXC8071513700K with MM# 99C6AA
Should be functionally identical.
Not really best thing about k series or hx on laptop isn't just over clocking but is more about using power limits to lower the silly default voltages auto uses
Where as h on laptop or non k on desktop these poor souls are screwed hehe
You would wana hope the board supports bios flashing without a functional CPU, or hope the board is new enough that the manufacturer has released it with a bios that supports 14th gen.
Yep - This is a really short life span (EOL) of a chip model so I guess if you really want one, now's the time to act to have a shot at a decent one.
• Cheap.
• Fast enough.
• Energy efficient.
• No need to think about BIOS on my motherboard.
No regrets so far. Also own a 10600KF, also bought for the very reason it's ridiculously cheap ($80; cheaper than 11400F).
Intel CPU OC is dead for normal people. Only hardcore enthusiasts are OCing them nowadays. AMD CPUs can be tweaked via PBO tuning but it's also not much.
All other Z690 and Z790 motherboards have been fully updated for 14th Gen as far as I'm aware, and will boot all CPUs except the 14700K unmodified as they are precisely identical to 13th gen, the CPUID is the same and so is the hardware stepping and revision, which means older microcodes as far back as the 13900K will at a bare minimum boot