News Raptor Lake Non-K CPUs Reportedly Up to 64 Percent Faster Than Alder Lake Counterparts

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Okay, so I'm looking at these charts and thinking it's all just a bit MEH! Single core increases kinda like the old 5% mark, and then an increase in multicore which mostly comes about from extra cores. Am I missing something?
  1. The point of the article was multithreaded performance, not single-threaded.
  2. Raptor Lake cores have the same microarchitecture as Alder Lake, and are made on the same process node. So, the fact that the performance delta is even that big is fairly impressive! Likely due to larger caches, but there are numerous other minor tweaks.
Also, regarding the multithreaded benchmarks, I have to wonder if the DDR5 is running at a higher speed (they said it was the same RAM, but Raptor Lake could potentially run it at a higher speed).