Intel says one of its 13th Gen CPUs will hit 6GHz out of the box
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#63HBN)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge At least one of Intel's forthcoming 13th-generation CPUs will be able to run at 6GHz at stock, Tom's Hardware reports. The detail was shared in a slide onstage at Intel's Technology Tour 2022, which also says it'll be capable of hitting 8GHz when overclocked. Other improvements promised for this new generation, which is named Raptor Lake, include a 15 percent improvement in single-threaded performance, and a 41 percent improvement in multi-threaded performance.
Intel's 6GHz claim is a shot across the bow at competitor AMD, which recently said that its upcoming flagship 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X will be capable of boosting up to 5.7GHz. Although raw clock speeds aren't the be all and end all when it comes to performance, breaking the 6GHz...