Stop me if I’m repeating myself…
Intel’s new Raptor Lake CPUs have a power guzzling problem
THIS SHOULDN’T COME as much of a surprise. Raptor Lake is, after all, a tweaked version of the Alder Lake just with more cores and higher clocks. And Alder Lake was already seriously pushing the wattage.
Intel can say all it wants about the 3rd-gen SuperFin process tech used to manufacture Raptor Lake, now branded as Intel 7. But the reality is that it’s still a 10nm process in a world where the likes of TSMC have just started producing 3nm chips for commercial applications. Of course, process nodes aren’t directly comparable between competing fabs. So, Intel’s 10nm is actually a bit more dense than TSMC’s
