Latest Intel Arrow Lake Leaks Point To Interesting Design Choices
Latest Intel Arrow Lake Leaks Point To Interesting Design Choices
Intelβs Arrow Lake architecture is set to succeed the 14th Gen βRaptor Lake Refreshβ processors later this year, and more information has emerged from leaker Golden Pig Upgrade (ιηͺεηΊ§ε ) (via Videocardz). As far as leaks go, this is a particularly interesting one, as there are many changes made to fundamental design choices.
The post on Bilibili started with the leaker stating, β(I have) no idea why a processor set to launch in slightly more than half a year is still getting many wildly inaccurate leaksβ¦β The leaker then clears things up with whatβs known. Starting with the naming β the leaker says itβs βimpossibleβ for Arrow Lake to be referred to as 15th Gen Core, and instead predicts that βCore Ultra (Series 2)β will be the name when it launches.
A second piece of information indicates that Arrow Lake will not feature hyper-threading and LPE-core (battery runtime isnβt a concern on desktops), but it retains NPU from the Meteor Lake architecture. As a result, the AI performance will mirror the laptop architecture.
This information matches the previous leak that indicates Arrow Lake will ditch the hyper-threading feature. What happens to multi-core performance, then? In a reply, the leaker alleges that there are βno concerns for nowβ on the possibility of performance regression.
For onboard graphics, all chips will be upgraded to 4 Xe cores, though it wonβt be referred to as βIntel Arc Graphicsβ. Since the name is only given to onboard graphics with 7 or more Xe cores, βIntel Graphicsβ will be what youβll be seeing in Task Manager. Also, DDR4 is no longer supported.
Golden Pig Upgrade also touches on the mobile segment expected to spin off from the desktop lineup. The leaker notes that laptop chips will feature multiple βTilesβ, of which the βleading edgeβ variants are set to be manufactured by TSMC, whereas Intelβs own 20A process will only be responsible for 6+8 core configuration (or its binned variants) under the Arrow Lake-S lineup, which likely includes the Core Ultra 5 non-K and lower.
Itβs worth noting here that Intelβs 20A process is several nodes more advanced than the current node used by Intelβs current desktop chips β which is Intel 7 (and was originally called 10nm Enhanced SuperFin before the renaming). The chipmaker will be skipping Intel 4 (used for Meteor Lake) and Intel 3 altogether, although this big of a jump likely leaves the question of the nodeβs yield status.
Additionally, the leaker also noted that Intel is still unable to design a PCH-less solution for its ARL-S and HX-series chips, unlike AMDβs processors. Meaning, that gaming laptops sporting Intelβs upcoming HX-series still require a discrete chipset to operate various downstream connections, which AMDβs HX-series equivalents no longer require.
Pokdepinion: Thatβs a huge amount of information to take in. I wonder how Intel deals with the potential loss of multicore performance now that HT is gone?
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