Just days after the Core i9-13900HX was revealed, another Intel Raptor Lake laptop CPU model has leaked, the Core i7-13700HX. It will be part of the 13th-generation high-end laptop CPU family. The HX series utilizes the same mold as the desktop Raptor Lake-S parts, so we’ll see a similar set of core configurations as well.
In the case of the Intel Core i7-13700HX, 16 cores are obtained using an 8 P-Core and 8 E-Core layout. That equates to a total of 24 threads, the same configuration as the current Core i7-13700K or the previous-generation Core i9-12900K/KS flagship. The CPU has 30MB of L3 cache, and on a Lenovo 82WQ laptop, we can see that the CPU has a base clock of 2.10 GHz and a turbo frequency of up to 5.0 GHz.
Intel’s 16-core Raptor Lake-HX chip, the Core i7-13700HX, has leaked, with a clock speed of up to 5.0GHz. (Image credit: Benchleaks)
The laptop also has an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Laptop GPU installed, meaning that most OEMs and laptop suppliers will still rely on existing GeForce RTX 30-series parts instead of waiting for NVIDIA’s next-generation RTX 40 GPUs, which The GPU is expected to be officially unveiled at CES in 2023.
A few months ago, Intel announced that they would release Raptor Lake mobile CPUs by the end of 2022. They didn’t mention whether the mobile lineup will include the Raptor Lake-H and Raptor Lake-HX SKUs, but it looks like we’ll get both at launch.
It is not known if the company will pair its own graphics cards with the new Raptor Lake mobile CPUs, but since Arc GPUs are mostly released around the same time as the Raptor Lake CPUs, it is expected that these GPUs will be used in mobile systems such as NUCs and laptop.
