We are a few days away from CES 2023 and while gaming in particular stopped to be strong since Microsoft and Nintendo are no longer companies that use the Las Vegas’s event as a platform, interest may fall in computing stuff.

Intel took the turn with the pre-announcement that was a thing in the days leading to the physical event taking place and with this, the Mobile version of Intel Core Raptor Lake or 13th Generation, aimed for laptops or the HX series.

As the flagship of this new series is the Core i9-13980HX with a 5.6GHz turbo frequency and 24 cores, it is being labeled as the first laptop CPU to support a 24-core configuration, and Intel claims it’s the “world’s fastest mobile processor.”

Overall, the 13th Gen family is 11% faster in single-thread performance and up to 49% faster multitasking performance over the same 12th Gen chips. 

Directly for gaming performance, the Raptor Lake is up to 12 percent faster than its predecessor, but Intel did not share any in-house benchmarking and it would have been nice to include.

In general, Raptor Lake will  support both DDR4 (up to 3,200MHz) and DDR5 (up to 5,600MHz), with up to 128GB of RAM supported, support for Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, and Thunderbolt 4.

All this with a base power of 45 watts. 

Elsewhere, Intel also announced a new family of processor including the H family for Power users, the U family for Ultrabooks, the P family for all-purposes laptop and new Desktop CPU for non-gaming purposes.

Committed companies looking to launch laptop computers with Raptor Lake include Acer, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI, Asus, and Razer with the expectation of a total of 60 brands.