Related : AMD Teases Radeon RX 7000 GPU Based on RDNA 3 Architecture The i9-K CPUs will be available for pre-order starting from the 27th of September. Moving onto the i5 and i7 Raptor Lake counterparts, you can pre-order them by the 13th of October and you are expected to receive your i9/i7/i5 CPUs on the 20th of October. That’s a mouthful.
Raptor Lake Announcement : 27th September, 2022Pre-orders for the i9 series : 27th September, 2022Pre-orders for the i5/i7 series : 13th October, 2022Arrival of your goods : 20th October, 2022
In addition, starting from the 20th of October, you can find Raptor Lake products on shelves. Although, we still do not know much regarding the non-K SKUs from Raptor Lake. Expect them during the CES 2023 event which is set to take place on the 5th of Jaunary, 2023. Similarly, the Z790 flagship motherboards may launch at the same date as the i9 processors (27th September, 2022).
Performance
The Raptor Lake CPUs do not lack behind Zen4 by any means. The leaked benchmarks so far have put Intel ahead in single-core testing, however, the multi-core crown may return to AMD as the final leaks and benchmarks show AMD’s silicon in the lead. This will be one of the most fierce lineups ever. Read More : AMD Unveils Ryzen 5 7600X, Ryzen 7 7700X, Ryzen 9 7900X, & Ryzen 9 7950X Processors: Launching on 27th September
