Thursday, August 19th 2021
With 13th Gen "Raptor Lake-S," Intel Could Put 24 Cores in Your Desktop, But Mostly Small Cores
Intel's 13th Gen Core "Raptor Lake-S" desktop processor could come with core counts as high as 24, overtaking AMD's number for mainstream desktops, for the first time since 2017. There is, however, a big catch, The 24-core chip could comprise of 8 "big" P-cores, and 16 "little" E-cores, according to a report by AdoredTV. The silicon features 8 "Raptor Cove" P-cores, which succeed "Golden Cove," introducing IPC and instruction-set improvements; while the type of low-power E-cores remains to be determined. AdoredTV predicts that the Core i9 brand extension could max out the silicon with 8+16 cores, while lower Core i7 SKUs could be 8+8 cores, and Core i5 6+8 cores. The TDP of Unlocked K SKUs could be rated at 125 W, and the other "locked" ones at 65 W.
Sources:
VideoCardz, AdoredTV (YouTube)
27 Comments on With 13th Gen "Raptor Lake-S," Intel Could Put 24 Cores in Your Desktop, But Mostly Small Cores
Third pic has 6+0
So either one of them is fake, or both
What'll make a performance difference is the L3 cache. If the big Raptor Cove cores have fast access to the extra cache that putting more little Tremont cores brings, then the performance uplift will be there because of the extra cache.
NGL, Cache is what made Zen2 so much better than Zen1, and it's why AMD are going to add even more cache to the next iteration of Zen3.
In a general sense, I'm hoping we get a nice review on this and can distill some simple one liners to get the point across. That is - IF those atom cores are as shit as I think they are :D Compromise for what use case exactly on MSDT?
The marketing aspect of number of cores is a different matter though. We will have to wait and see about how this will be addressed.
But since those are rumors, I'm waiting before making any definitive claims, don't ping me if those end up being overpriced disappointment :D
They will still be lower-clocked, and without HT to keep-up-with cache misses.