Sunday, April 30th 2023
Intel to Introduce Core Ultra Brand Extension with "Meteor Lake," iGPU Packs 128 EU
Intel is planning a major change in its client processor brand extensions with its next-generation mobile processors codenamed "Meteor Lake." The company is working to introduce the new Core Ultra brand extensions, where "Ultra" replaces the "i" in extensions such as i3, i5, i7, and i9 in some processor models. An example of such a brand extension would be the "Core Ultra 5 1003H." Ashes of the Singularity benchmark leaks of the processors surfaced on social media.
The benchmark also detects 128 EU (1,024 unified shaders) for the iGPU powering "Meteor Lake." If true, this iGPU could offer performance that's in the league of an Arc A380 discrete GPU, with some performance lost to the shared memory setup compared to the A380 with its dedicated graphics memory. The iGPU clock speed is detected to be 2.10 GHz, and having 4 MB of L2 cache, the last-level cache local to the Graphics Tile. The detection string for the iGPU as reported by its OpenCL ICD reads "Intel(R) Graphics i gfx-driver-ci-master-13736 DCH RI (1024S 128C SM3.0 2.1GHz, 4MB L2, 12.7GB)."
Source:
BenchLeaks
The benchmark also detects 128 EU (1,024 unified shaders) for the iGPU powering "Meteor Lake." If true, this iGPU could offer performance that's in the league of an Arc A380 discrete GPU, with some performance lost to the shared memory setup compared to the A380 with its dedicated graphics memory. The iGPU clock speed is detected to be 2.10 GHz, and having 4 MB of L2 cache, the last-level cache local to the Graphics Tile. The detection string for the iGPU as reported by its OpenCL ICD reads "Intel(R) Graphics i gfx-driver-ci-master-13736 DCH RI (1024S 128C SM3.0 2.1GHz, 4MB L2, 12.7GB)."
48 Comments on Intel to Introduce Core Ultra Brand Extension with "Meteor Lake," iGPU Packs 128 EU
MTL branding refresh is as follows, according to what I've heard:
i3 = Intel Core Max
i5 = Intel Core Ultra
i7 = Intel Core Extreme
i9 = Intel Core Extreme+
i3 = Intel Core Normal
i5 = Intel Core Performance
i7 = Intel Core Ultra
i9 = Intel Core Extreme
i9 KS = Intel Core Extreme+
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/232142/intel-processor-u300-8m-cache-up-to-4-40-ghz/specifications.html
Basically a single-core CPU with 4 E-cores attached, for laptops. I wonder how it performs?
But whatever, if Microsoft needs to follow Apple to making Windows 10 a 'lifetime' OS like Apple's OS 10, and then when Apple decides after 20 years to rebrand to 11 and 12 to follow suit with their own Win 11 and likely 12 soon enough, then sure Intel can follow the big moneymaker with their CPU naming scheme too.
I can only assume the former Celeron and Pentium lines will be re-relabeled "Pro" in a few weeks' time.
www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/welcome-the-new-intel-processor.html
Oh, apologies, you mentioned re-relabeled... yeah, I agree. Celeron being the "standard" and Pentium the "Pro". It makes sense if they're following Apple, but their multiple models would sour that stack as they cannot guarantee the same performance in every tier like Apple does.
Celeron = Intel Core mega e-waste
Just no
The future of desktop/laptop CPUs is happening now in smartphones. One or two fast cores, a few mid range cores and a few low power cores.
As for OSes that where mentioned above. Consumers see numbers. Mac OS 12, vs Microsoft Windows 10? Well that 12 is bigger, so probably is also newer. Right? Right. Why? Because Mac OS 12 was introduced in 2021 and Windows 10 in 2015 (not easy to explain to someone the newer versions of Win10, because it is still called Win10). The same is happening for years in browsers, where browsers are in a competition of who will introduced the highest version number. Chrome is at version 112, Firefox at version 112, Edge at 112. Coincidence?I have a 12 years old 6 core Thuban (AM3+). Believe me it's ultra smooth and fast thanks also to the SATA SSD and 16GBs of fast DDR3. That's until you put it next to my AM4 Ryzen systems. Only then you can notice how much slower it can be in a number of situations. Smooth, but slower. The only reason people wouldn't notice how much slower this CPU is compared to others, is the probably fact that, they would NOT be comparing it to a (much) faster system, by putting them next to each other and starting/running the same apps.
imo sticking with the present naming convention is better.
That's as far as I'm gonna take it without going further off-topic.I absolutely agree! The "i" naming convention is so simple and elegant. It just works. I'm not even mad at AMD for "borrowing" it.
To be fair, that Celeron with 1 P core and 4 E cores will be much faster anyway compared to my Phenom. Even the E cores are much much faster than those Phenom II cores.When AMD dropped the ATI name from discrete GPUs many where against it. But it didn't took more than one generation to get accustomed to it. Intel probably sees the success of Apple, sees Apple as a threat, so if rumors are correct, they just try to make their platform look premium in the eyes of the random consumer who doesn't have real technical knowledge, even the minimal needed to understand the difference between Apple SOCs and Intel CPUs. The average consumer only sees :
Apple - Ultra Max, meaning premium
Intel i something, meaning old, not premium
Because the i naming is so so soooooooooooooooooooooooo old idea, back from the iPod and iPhone era.
Also by going max and ultra Intel differentiates itself from AMD that gets stack to the old R3/5/7/9 naming.
While we laugh at it, I think Intel's marketing department might have a good argument here.
It wasn't a good joke in this occasion, but you tried.
I also misfire with jokes. It doesn't always work.