Intel is about to launch its new 14th Gen Core “Raptor Lake Refresh” CPUs and just like the rumor mill does every time, we get information of future technology processors within the lead-up to the most recent ones launching. Now we’re listening to about Intel’s next-gen shopper CPU within the type of “Lunar Lake”, after years of persistent rumors on the brand new processors.
3Intel Lunar Lake engineering pattern CPU (supply: SiSoftware database)
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The following-gen Intel “Lunar Lake” processors will not be a high-end gaming CPU structure however as a substitute will lean in direction of new low-power gadgets. The brand new Lunar Lake CPUs will almost definitely be launched both alongside, or after Intel’s new Arrow Lake CPUs, which would be the alternative for Meteor Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs from the corporate.
We have got some extra information on the next-gen Lunar Lake CPUs courtesy of them being noticed on the SiSoftware Sandra database, the place the work-in-progress CPUs are known as “Intel 0000”, whereas the platform title is Lunar Lake (LNL-M LPP RVP1). This identifies it as a Lunar Lake CPU that helps LPDDR5 reminiscence.
What do we all know now, that we did not know earlier than? Properly, the itemizing for the Intel Lunar Lake CPU teases that it rocks 20 cores, a clock pace of as much as 3.91GHz, and an influence score of 17W. I might take these with an enormous grain of salt, because it’s nowhere close to last silicon, and it is only a itemizing on the SiSoftware Sandra database.
We do not know the way the distribution of the CPU cores is on the Intel Lunar Lake processor, provided that the cores within the compute chiplet are nonetheless a thriller. We must always assume that Intel will pack in 6 x P-Cores and eight x E-Cores, whereas the L2 cache must be someplace within the neighborhood of 10MB + 4MB which, as VideoCardz factors out, suggests this chip has 4 x P-Cores and 4 x E-Cores in whole.
3Intel Lunar Lake engineering pattern CPU (supply: SiSoftware database)
Intel is predicted to make use of the identical core structure as Arrow Lake — so, Lion Cove and Skymont cores right here with Lunar Lake — the place the itemizing on the SiSoftware Sandra database leaves out that it ought to rock Xe2-LPG graphics on-board… which is an improve of over the Xe-LPG graphics within Arrow Lake. Intel’s new Lunar Lake CPUs will function fewer Xe-Cores on the GPU aspect of issues, provided that it is a smaller, lower-power processor.
Intel lately teased its new Lunar Lake processors at its current Innovation occasion, confirming that the corporate is presently within the testing part of its new processor. We now have no ETA proper now, however we should always anticipate extra particulars within the second half of 2024, whereas a launch might be penned for a while in 2025.
