We have just seen the release of Intel's mainstream 600-series motherboards & it looks like board makers are already in a rush to ready their next-gen 700-series offerings for the 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs.

BIOSTAR Leaks Intel's Next-Gen 700-Series Motherboards For 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs: Include Z790 & B760 Variants

The BIOSTAR 700-series motherboards which include 12 upcoming variants were listed over at EEC. The models include three Z790 flavors and nine B760 flavors. The list can be seen below:

Z790 VALKYRIEZ790GTAZ790A-SILVERB760GTQB760M-SILVERB760GTNB760T-SILVERB760MX5-E PROB760MX- PROB760MX-CB760MX-EB760MH

While we don't have specific information about these motherboards yet, what we do know is that the Z790 and B760 motherboards will be the successor to the existing Z790 and B660 offerings. It won't necessarily be a replacement since the new 700-series boards will still rock the same LGA 1700/1800 socket and most of the features with Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs will remain the same.

Biostar Z790 & B760 motherboards for Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake Desktop CPUs have leaked out. (Image Credits: EEC)

We can expect a few enhancements in terms of IO and maybe even the addition of more Gen 5 NVMe slots which will be a huge deal for storage enthusiasts later this year as Phison-powered SSDs hit the market. Since the motherboards are based on the same socket, they will be able to support both 12th Gen Alder Lake and 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs so users who want to upgrade to a new platform while retaining their existing CPU or use the latest 13th Gen CPUs on their 600 series motherboards can easily do so.

Here's Everything We Know About Intel's 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPU Family

Replacing the Intel Alder Lake-S 12th Gen Core family, the IntelRaptor Lake-S lineupwill be part of the 13th Gen Core family and feature two brand new core architectures. These architectures will be featuring Raptor Cove as performance cores & an enhanced Gracemont core which will be serving as efficiency cores.

Intel Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPU Lineup & Configurations

According to previously leaked data, the lineup will consist of three segments that were leaked out in the recent power recommendations. These include the 'K' series enthusiast SKUs rated at 125W, 65W mainstream SKUs, and 35W low-power SKUs. Coming to the top-end variants, we will be getting up to 24 cores followed by 16 core, 10 core, 4 core, and 2 core variants. The SKUs are detailed below:

Intel Core i9 K-Series (8 Golden + 16 Grace) = 24 Cores / 32 Threads / 68 MB?Intel Core i7 K-Series (8 Golden + 8 Grace) = 16 Cores / 24 Threads / 54 MB?Intel Core i5 K-Series (6 Golden + 8 Grace) = 14 Cores / 20 Threads / 44 MB?Intel Core i5 S-Series (6 Golden + 4 Grace) = 14 Cores / 16 Threads / 37 MB?Intel Core i3 S-Series (4 Golden + 0 Grace) = 4 Cores / 8 Threads / 20 MB?Intel Pentium S-Series (2 Golden + 0 Grace) = 4 Cores / 4 Threads / 10 MB?

The enthusiast 125W Intel Raptor Lake-S Desktop SKUs will feature Core i9 models featuring up to 8 Raptor Cove cores and 16 Gracemont cores for a total of 24 cores and 32 threads. Intel's Core i7 lineup will consist of 16 core (8+8), Core i5 models will consist of 14 core (6+8) and 10 core (6+4) & finally, we have the Core i3 models which will feature 4 cores but without any efficiency cores. The lineup will also include Pentium SKUs which will feature just 2 Raptor Cove cores. All Core variants will feature a 32 EU (256 core) enhanced Xe integrated GPU. Certain Core i5 and Pentium variants will also come configured with 24 EU and 16 EU iGPUs.

Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake-S & 13th Gen Raptor Lake-S Desktop CPU Comparison (Preliminary):