B760 Aorus Elite
The leaker has showcased a few images of GIGABYTE’s B760 Aorus Elite motherboard. Now, the lack of DDR5 support will appear as uninviting but this is Intel’s trump card against AMD. The X670 and B650 motherboards have hurt Zen4‘s sales by a great amount due to their high price. Support for last-gen memory will make it easier for people with older builds to upgrade to Raptor Lake. Similarly, we’re also looking at a possible 13th-gen refresh by the second half of 2023. These CPUs may use Intel’s 10ESF node which allows for slightly higher frequencies. More on that here. It will be interesting to see how much of an upgrade these new motherboards are as compared to the B660 boards. The pricing is not of much concern because if things go south, one can simply opt for a decent B660 motherboard. Currently, things are going in Intel’s favor but that may change as AMD preps their V-Cache equipped Zen4 CPUs.
Release Date
Intel will showcase its budget-level CPUs and motherboards at CES 2023. Alongside that, we expect major announcements from NVIDIA and AMD both in the GPU and the CPU department.
Raptor Lake Lineup
