


For many people, myself included, this fact had lead us to be more excited by Ryzen 7000s prospects, viewing Intel’s 13th generation as ‘just’ an optimisation on existing and known technologies. This is a stark contrast compared to AMD’s Ryzen 7000 launch, which saw an entirely new CPU socket change and a whole new, ground-up CPU architecture. This means that Intel can effectively maintain the current LGA1700 socket, giving consumers the option to upgrade with a 12th Gen motherboard, but also drastically improve system performance. The 13th Gen architecture is a reworked and improved version of the Alder Lake process node, combining high performance cores with better clock speeds and high efficiency cores to improve thermal performance and power consumption.
