Raptor Lake will maintain support for DDR4, being compatible with the Z690 that use this type of memory

One of the main concerns of potential buyers of Z690 motherboards with DDR4 is the possibility of upgrading to the 13th. Future generation of Intel Core “Raptor Lake” processors, and there is good news about that concern: According to “Moore’s Law Is Dead“These processors will support both DDR4 and DDR5 as well as Alder Lake, being compatible with Z690 motherboards that use the previous memory standard.

Raptor Lake will support DDR4.

Some people might say “duh”, but I have seen a conspiracy theory going around that Intel would obsolete DDR4 mobos when Raptor Lake launches. No, they won’t.

Rest easy DDR4 Alder Lake buyers 😊.

— Moore’s Law Is Dead (@mooreslawisdead) November 8, 2021

This is excellent news since updating using a motherboard with DDR4 memories makes the update much cheaper without a notable loss of performance by being able to reuse memories of our current system or in the worst case, acquire new memories that cost half or even less than a DDR5 memory kit. In addition, by also applying to the H610, B660 and H670 motherboards that will arrive in the future, and not only to Z690, a much cheaper update can be made to this new generation without losing the possibilities of updating to the 13th. Generation.

In this way, for example by buying a processor such as an i5-12400F and a B660 motherboard, we can economically upgrade to Alder Lake, and in the future upgrade the CPU to a higher performance Raptor Lake processor while maintaining the same motherboard and memories. RAM, which is excellent news.

Recall that Raptor Lake will improve the IPC of both high-performance and high-efficiency cores, and will provide up to 16 high-efficiency cores compared to the maximum of 8 provided by Alder Lake, improving both single-core and multi-core performance at the end. 2022. We’ll keep you updated as we learn more about this new generation of processors.

What do you think about this news about DDR4 support at Raptor Lake? Do you change your plans to upgrade?