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JEMC said:

hinch said:

Assuming these kick for productivity and gaming against Zen 4 on top of supporting DDR4.. Yeah. Interested to see how Intel will price the 13400 as well, which should be the insane value for money (like the i5 12400) for gamers on a budget.

But yeah Intel should take it easily this year, value wise. Crazy how AMD went from being the budget brand to being premium brand in the space of a few generations.

Don't forget that anything below the 13600K will use Alder Lake architecture, not Rocket Lake.

There may be performance improvements, but they could all come from higher clocks.

Captain_Yuri said:

Intel Launches 13th Gen CPUs: Starting At $294, 5.8GHz, 15% IPC Increase And 41% Multi-Threaded Performance Increase Over Alder Lake

https://wccftech.com/intel-launches-13th-gen-cpus-starting-at-294-5-8ghz-15-ipc-increase-and-41-multi-threaded-performance-increase-over-alder-lake/

Official now. Insane prices and performance and cheaper than what newegg leak showed!

Looks like this time we may have a price war! Betwen chips shortages, crypto shenanigans, etc. it's been a while since we've had similar performing products competing for our money.

By the way, talking about money, I've seen some X670E motherboards listed for around 350€. They're not cheap, but they're not as expensive as we feared (tho there are also some above the 1.000€ mark).

Well KF is still Raptor Lake but yea. The cheaper chips than that will use Alder Lake which is fine enough I suppose since we seen AMD nerf their cheaper chips last gen as well so I wouldn't doubt if they do the same this time.

I do think people should wait a month before buying Zen 4. From what I have seen, the Ryzen 7000 CPUs are still in stock while with Ryzen 5000, they went out of stock within 5-10 minutes of launch. So I don't think people will be buy them in droves this time around and with the Raptor Lake announcement, I suspect we will see those Ryzen CPUs getting discounted pretty quickly.

At that point along with B series launch, I think we can start to make an argument about buying Zen 4. But at the current prices, even with higher power consumption on the table, I think Raptor Lake is the way to go simply because of the insane amount of cores you are getting for the price.

I do think that 7950x will continue to be in the lead for multicore applications though while Raptor Lake will take the lead in gaming.

Last edited by Jizz_Beard_thePirate - on 27 September 2022