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
Intels however are different than AMD's so a different approach has to be used to get it and I do agree Intel has made it harder to make it really "Go" vs what you'd get from previous generations. I know I can get it with some work and that (To me) is fine, I'm willing to take the time to figure it out but many aren't...... And that's fine too.
Whatever floats your boat or clocks your chip to whatever extent you want.
What really improves things a lot is the RAM tuning. On both sides, Intel and AMD.
I just don't like wasting effort on tuning when I know I won't get significant improvements. You can call me a spoiled brat but OC less than by 30 percent isn't much for me. And getting 30+ percent more from your equipment basically for free is a pre-2010s thing. Now, I'm just spending no more than two evenings on a whole PC. Whatever best result I can achieve stays indefinitely after that.
The new battlefield for over clocking is dealing with the default power settings on motherboard's they are scary and imo do more harm than good.
My x570 aorus master was pushing more voltage than AMD spec and my over clock, I'm running pbo+ and can't remember what because it's been so stable I've not had to look at in that time but it was enough to make me brick my pants at the time I can recollect.
Turns out his Gigabyte Z690 wouldn't boot with the 13700K installed. We had to install my 12900K to flash the bios, but I told him he's better off buying my Z690 Strix-E that was previously running my 13900K that was already flashed to support 13th gen which he is now running : )
Speaking of LGA1700 CPUs, is their hybrid structure still unstable in some scenarios?
Ouch Intel :)
I like Intel an AMD, but Intel sure has made more odd mistakes recently than AMD and it's hard to ignore.
or soup ;)