Intel is discontinuing its boxed overclockable Core i5, i7, and i9 Raptor Lake CPUs. Every K-series chip in the lineup will be discontinued beginning May 24th, 2024, after which vendors will no longer be able to purchase them. 

Intel’s product change document states that the last product discontinuance order date and non-cancelable/non-returnable cut-off points will end on June 28th, 2024. Below is a list chips that are being retired by Intel: 

Intel CPUs to be Discontinued

Core i5-13600K

Core i5-13600KF

Core i7-13700K

Core i7-13700KF

Core i9-13900K

Core i9-13900KF

Core i9-13900KS

The 13th Gen K-series CPU supply won’t evaporate instantly but expect availability to gradually diminish, along with price changes as vendors move to sell off remaining overclockable Raptor Lake CPU inventory. The majority of 12th-Gen Alder Lake CPUs are competitively priced , so we could potentially see the same behavior with these discontinued Raptor Lake CPUs. 

However, it appears that Intel has not discontinued its Alder Lake CPU lineup, even though it’s a full generation older than Raptor Lake. If you check out Intel’s Ark website, you’ll find that all its Alder Lake chips are rated as “launched” rather than “discontinued.” 

Raptor Lake launched back in 2022 with the refresh being an immense upgrade over Alder Lake, boasting significantly higher clock speeds, more cache, and double the number of E-cores on most models. As a result, gaming performance and multi-threaded performance were substantially better, enabling Intel to outperform AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs at the time. 

Even now, Raptor Lake is very competitive, thanks to Raptor Lake Refresh. Unfortunately, Raptor Lake Refresh did little to improve performance over Raptor Lake, except for the i7 SKUs, which got four more E-cores. As Raptor Lake’s overclockable chips become extinct, 14th-gen CPUs prices are lowering. Raptor Lake’s vanilla SKUs are on sale and haven’t been discontinued, but it is inevitable that will occurs.