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Nvidia has officially acknowledged that systems using specificIntelRaptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh processors may run into issues when trying to play games. The chips from both generations are fabricated on a 10 nm process.
Released in late 2022,Intel’s 13th generation Raptor Lake Core processors utilize the American tech giant’s Raptor Cove and Gracemont microarchitectures. The succeeding 14th generation, an iterative series code named Raptor Lake Refresh that launched last October, uses the same technologies while offering slightly better performance. Recently, there have been reports of computers powered by chips from Intel’s two latest CPU generations encountering problems while playing games, and even Nvidia has dropped a statement to address the situation.
In the patch notes for Nvidia’s 552.12 GeForce Game Ready Driver that was released on April 4, the GPU maker advised owners of systems powered by unlocked Intel 13th and 14th generation desktop CPUs to consult two sources should they experience stability issues, video memory error messages, and crashes during the shader compilation phase of a game.Intel processors with K suffixesare popular among gamers and enthusiasts, as they can be tuned to achieve higher clock speeds than what they were originally shipped with.
The first source mentioned was an official Intel support thread over at the company’s community forum that addressed the reported stability issues surrounding unlocked Raptor Lake and Raptor Lake Refresh chips. Meanwhile, the second source Nvidia mentioned was a statement provided by RAD Game Tools, a video game software company owned by Epic Games. According to the statement, some crashes and decompression failures experienced in titles built with Epic Games' Unreal Engine were likely caused by the Intel Core i9-13900K and Core i9-14900K, both of which are currently considered as some of thebest Intel CPUs for gaming.
Unlocked Intel 13th/14th Gen CPU Known Issues According to Nvidia
Owners of Intel GPUs have also encountered some problems while playing games in the past. For instance,Starfieldwas essentially unplayable on current-generation Intel Arcgraphics cards around its launch last September. Later driver updates did address these issues and other bugs, with one promising Arc users up to a 149% performance uplift in Bethesda Game Studios' popular action RPG.
Rumors suggest thatIntel’s mobile-focused Lunar Lake CPUs will releaseby the end of 2024 alongside the company’s 15th generation Arrow Lake processors. Established hardware industry leakers have also claimed that Intel Lunar Lake chips will be 50% faster than their Meteor Lake predecessors, all while just consuming slightly more power. These upcoming CPUs are expected to feature graphics solutions from Battlemage, which is the codename forIntel’s second generation of Arc GPUs.
Intel Core i9 14900K 24-Core, 32-Thread CPU
The Intel Core i9 14900K 24-Core, 32-Thread CPU is Intel’s highest-end 14th generation CPU and offers the highest boost clocks for a consumer-grade CPU from Intel to date, clocking in at an impressive 6 GHz natively.It succeeds the limited-release Intel Core 13900KS as the first mainstream 6 GHz CPU, even as it brings a large power draw and thermal requirement to reach said clock speed.
