Intel Raptor Lake price target was reportedly 5-30% more than Alder Lake but Ryzen 7000's pricing allegedly threw a wrench in the works

[Redaktion]

Intel's 13th gen Raptor Lake processors are rumored to pack some impressive improvements over the 12th gen Alder Lake CPUs. But the performance gains would likely lose most of their impact if Intel can't price the Raptor Lake chips right. The latest report from Moore's Law is Dead claims Intel initially wanted to price the 13th gen processors higher than the 12th gen parts.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Raptor-Lake-price-target-was-reportedly-5-30-more-than-Alder-Lake-but-Ryzen-7000-s-pricing-allegedly-threw-a-wrench-in-the-works.645294.0.html

[RobertJasiek]

Why not issue 10kW CPUs to claim greater speeds and justify greater prices?;)

[M Olsen]

Good. This is why competition is good for consumers, so one company can't have a monopoly on the industry and take customers for everything in their wallets.

[Anonymousgg]

Raptor Lake could hold budget price points and volume with chips like the i5-13400 and 13500. Unless they come out a lot later than 13600K+ and coincide with some budget AM5 release (Rembrandt?) and A620.

[REgamesplayer]

I would not quote Moore's Law is Dead as an reliable source. He gets stuff mostly wrong. You can see that if you go to any of his old videos and fact checking him. Most notoriously, he advised people to sell their GPUs just  before GPU apocalypse and when it had happened, he still doubled down and thought that selling RTX 2080 Ti for 500 euros was a good idea.

[LOL]

MLID literally sits in his mom's basement making stuff up.  Please stop citing him.  Anyone can look at the historical price trends on the i9's and see that the 13900K will likely be about $600 or so.

[Mikko Rantalainen]

Raptor Lake could hold budget price points and volume with chips like the i5-13400 and 13500. Unless they come out a lot later than 13600K+ and coincide with some budget AM5 release (Rembrandt?) and A620.

According to some rumors, 13500 and 13400 actually use 12th gen core despite the 13000 series branding. If this is indeed true, 13600K is the cheapest Intel worth buying.

Pricing of 13600K vs 7700 will be really interesting.