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Intel Z790 and B760 motherboards for 13th gen Raptor Lake CPUs already listed on EEC

A motherboard socket
via PCGamesN

About three months ago, Intel launched its 12th Gen Core series Alder Lake-S desktop CPUs at the Innovation 2021 event. Alder Lake-S needs to be paired with socket LGA1700-based 600-series chipset motherboards. And while the same socket, also sometimes called LGA1800, is expected to be re-used for the succeeding 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs too, the chipset will be all-new 700-series ones.

Motherboard vendor Biostar looks like it has already started working on the next-gen boards and has applied for Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) certification. Twitter leakster @harukaze5719 has spotted a number of these motherboard models, Z790 and Z760, on the EEC portal.

Z790 chipset motherboards listed on EEC

The motherboard models are:

  • Z790 VALKYRIE
  • Z790GTA Z790A-SILVER
  • B760GTQ B760M-SILVER
  • B760GTN B760T-SILVER
  • B760MX5-E PRO
  • B760MX- PRO
  • B760MX-C
  • B760MX-E
  • B760MH

The next-gen Raptor Lake CPUs will reportedly feature a new Digital Linear Voltage Regulator (DLVR) power delivery system that is rumored to drop the power consumption of these 13th gen chips by up to 25% according to Intel's internal research data (via Underfox on Twitter). Thanks to this feature, despite a 21% lowering of voltage, the Raptor Lake architecture is expected to perform 7% better.

Raptor Lake DLVR feature

The leaked image above (via VideoCardz) shows this new DLVR feature listed alongside other new features like LPDDR5X support, improved CPU Cache for gaming, among others.

Source: EEC via @harukaze5719 (Twitter)

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