The 13th generation Core Raptor Lake Intel processor with an impressive volume of l2l3 cache memory
- May 21
In fact, there is no way to determine whether it is a flagship processor Raptor Lake, so it makes no sense to indicate the name SKU at the moment. What is clear is that the alleged picture of the screen shows a combination of 8 “large nuclei” and 16 “small nuclei”, which is the configuration of the future Intel processor.
In the Intel 13th Gen Core series, a new Performance nucleus called Raptor Cove will be used. Although the number of these nuclei will not change during the generation, they say that each core has more cache memory. This will be confirmed by the following screenshot:
We remind you that the 12th generation series of “Alder Lake” has 1280 KB Kash Mapamy L2 and 3072 KB Kash Mapamy L3 for each Golden Cove/Performance core. Hybrid architecture also includes up to two clusters of four Gracemont/Efficient nuclei. Each of these clusters is connected to 2048 KB Cache L2 and 3072 KB Kash Mapyati L3.
The CPU-Z software screenshot, published by ONERAICHU, shows the configuration of Kesha L1, L2 and L3. This, as it were, confirms that the L2 cache (the third row) will receive 2 MB for each “large” core and 4 MB per cluster of small nuclei. This SKU will include four such clusters and the total number of 16 "small" nuclei. In fact, the multiplier “16” confirms precisely this number. This configuration corresponds to 32 MB of the L2 cache, and in combination with 36 MB of the L3 cache l3, the total volume of the cache memory is 68 MB, which is 24 MB more than that of Alder Lake.
It is interesting that the successor of the Raptor Lake, under the code name “Meteor Lake”, should offer the smaller 3 MB of the L2 cache for the cluster of small (CrestMont) nuclei. However, we still do not know what configurations of desktop chips (if any) are planned. Although Intel only demonstrated its Meteor Lake mobile chips, the company confirmed that the architecture will scale up to 125 watts. So it remains only to wait.