At slightest 1 of Intel’s forthcoming 13th-generation CPUs volition beryllium capable to tally astatine 6GHz astatine stock, Tom’s Hardware reports. The item was shared successful a slide onstage astatine Intel’s Technology Tour 2022, which besides says it’ll beryllium susceptible of hitting 8GHz erstwhile overclocked. Other improvements promised for this caller generation, which is named Raptor Lake, see a 15 percent betterment successful single-threaded performance, and a 41 percent betterment successful multi-threaded performance.

Intel’s 6GHz assertion is simply a changeable crossed the bow astatine rival AMD, which precocious said that its upcoming flagship 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X volition beryllium susceptible of boosting up to 5.7GHz. Although earthy timepiece speeds aren’t the beryllium each and extremity each erstwhile it comes to performance, breaking the 6GHz obstruction would beryllium an important selling triumph for Intel, which has been battling with a resurgent AMD successful the CPU marketplace successful caller years.

A descent from Intel’s presumption teasing the upcoming 2022 CPUs. Image: Intel

The Raptor Lake CPU lineup is yet to beryllium officially announced, truthful it’s unclear which oregon however galore of the generation’s processors volition beryllium capable to deed these kinds of timepiece speeds. Given Intel’s 12900KS boosted up to 5.5GHz (up 300MHz from the maximum 5.2GHz velocity connected the regular i9-12900K), Intel’s 6GHz CPU whitethorn good beryllium a KS-branded mentation of its upcoming 13900K chip. Official pricing and merchandise day accusation has not yet been made public, but Intel is acceptable uncover much details astatine its Innovation lawsuit successful San Jose, California connected September 27th. In what is improbable to beryllium a coincidence, that’s besides the aforesaid time AMD is releasing its Ryzen 7000 processors.