Insider @OneRaichu shared on Twitter that the next-generation Intel Raptor Lake 13th processors will be able to get to 6GHz clock speeds. Right now, the Core i9-12900 can reach over 5GHz.
Among the new processor series, at least one model will be able to conquer the 6 GHz peak. Intel Efficient Thermal Velocity Boost (ETVB) technology will help. This processor will be the first on the x86 architecture to reach this frequency.
Further confirmation of ETVB’s existence was found after Intel updated its Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) overclocking application. The overclocking features listed in the XTU changelog will be available for current generation Intel Alder Lake processors as well.
Intel’s former TVB technology “whenever possible” boosts the frequency by 100 MHz if the processor is not too hot and there is still a margin in frequencies. ETVB mode can be advanced TVB with higher frequencies, depending on processor temperature.
In the Sandra benchmark, the Core i9-13900 significantly outperformed the Core i9-12900 chip. However, since this was an early engineering sample, it is too early to judge the final performance.
AMD isn’t going to budge and is preparing Ryzen 7000 processors on the Zen 4 architecture. The company showed impressive results at Computex 2022, outperforming the Core i9-12900K by 31%. The Zen 4 chip also managed to overclock up to 5.5GHz in Ghostwire Tokyo game, Digitaltrends writes.