Intel Core i7-13700K CPU – Socket LGA1700 13th Gen Raptor Lake 16 Core Processor

Raptor Lake marks the 13th generation of Intel Core processors, succeeding the 12th generation Alder Lake chips. Intel will continue to build on the hybrid design it introduced in 2021, making use of both high-performance cores and energy-efficient cores in the same vein as Apple Silicon.

13th Gen Intel Core i7-13700K desktop processors feature PCIe 5.0 & 4.0 support, DDR5 and DDR4 support. Compatible with Intel 700 Series and Intel 600 Series Chipset based motherboards.

Specifications

About the Intel Core i7-13700K Processor

More Cache than Ever

Raptor Lake will be packing a notable upgrade to both L2 and L3 CPU caches. Performance cores will be getting 2MB of L2 cache and 3MB of L3 cache per core, while efficiency cores should get 4MB of L2 and 3MB of L3 per core cluster (clusters have four cores).

LGA1700 Socket

The new generation of Intel CPUs will fit in the same LGA1700 socket that Alder Lake used. So if you are upgrading from Alder Lake to a Raptor Lake chip, any of the old motherboards will suffice. But, of course, with the right BIOS version.