Asus's next-gen ROG STRIX laptop spotted with the Intel Core i9-13980HX Raptor Lake-HX CPU

By Kajoli Anand Puri | Updated on 23-Dec-2022

Highlights

Intel is going to launch the new Intel Core i9-13980HX Flagship Raptor Lake-HX CPU.

The chip appeared on the Geekbench 5 listing of the Asus Next-Gen ROG STRIX laptop.

This has not been confirmed by Asus yet.

Intel’s Core i9-13980HX CPU is claimed to be the fasted laptop chip (when it launches), and as a result, there’s been a lot of hype around the product. Interestingly, the Geekbench 5 listing of Asus’s Next-Gen ROG STRIX Laptop shows that the device will rock the upcoming Intel chip.

Intel Core i9-13980HX Raptor Lake-HX CPU specifications

The Intel Core i9-13980HX Raptor Lake-HX CPU will feature 16 E-Cores based on the Gracemont architecture and eight P-Cores based on the Raptor Cove. The full configuration has 32 threads and 24 cores. The CPU will offer 36 MB of L3 cache along with a maximum turbo frequency of up to 5.6 GHz. For context, this is 600 MHz faster than the Core i9-12950HX/Core i9-12900HX CPUs.

Asus’s Next-Gen ROG STRIX Laptop specifications

The Asus’s Next-Gen ROG STRIX Laptop is said to feature 64 GB of DDR5 memory. The CPU scored 20826 points in multi-core tests and 1970 points in single-core.

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