Intel's upcoming LGA-1851 socket is nearly here, but how long will it last? LGA-1700 has been around for a while now, but the new LGA-1851 platform is said to be sticking around until 2026... so we'll see 3 generations of CPUs used on it, and they'll all be on DDR5.
LGA-1851 will be here in Q3 2024 -- so a year or so from now -- with the current LGA-1700 socket feeding the upcoming 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPUs that are right around the corner (more on that above). LGA-1700 has been used for the 12th Gen "Alder Lake" as well as the current 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" CPUs as well as the upcoming 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors that'll be unleashed in October.
Intel currently has a mid of DDR5 and DDR4 support for LGA-1700 motherboards, but the new LGA-1851 motherboards will be DDR5 only, with DDR5-5600 memory as a minimum (compared to DDR5-4800 on LGA-1700 boards). We should expect the 1st Gen Core Ultra and 2nd Gen Core Ultra CPUs (Arrow Lake and Panther Lake, respectively) to debut on LGA-1851, which isn't toooooo far away now.
Intel's upcoming 15th Gen Core "Arrow Lake" CPUs on the new LGA-1851 socket are expected to bring some decent improvements in performance over the current 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake" that are already pumping away in our Ready to Ship Gaming PCs systems and even 14th Gen Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" processors that will arrive in our Gaming PC configurations later this year.
We should expect to see Intel's new branding in play with Arrow Lake, where the Intel Core Ultra 9, Intel Core Ultra 7, and Intel Core Ultra 5 processors will debut with the new LGA-1851 socket and Arrow Lake CPU architecture. Intel is dropping the "i" from its processors... bringing things more in line with how AMD has branded its phenomenally successful Ryzen CPUs.
