Monday, August 19th 2024
Intel Readies Core Ultra 3 205, Brings E-cores to the "3" Tier
Intel may have debuted its Hybrid (heterogeneous multicore) architecture for the desktop with the 12th Gen Core "Alder Lake-S," but the value-ended Core i3 series SKUs throughout the 12th, 13th, and 14th Gen Core processors have remained 4-core/8-thread traditional multicore chips, with just four P-cores. Intel is about to change this with the Core Ultra 200 series "Arrow Lake-S." According to OneRaichu, a reliable source with Intel leaks, the company is giving finishing touches to a pair of Core Ultra 3 series desktop processor SKUs based on the "Arrow Lake" microarchitecture. These will be 8-core chips, a doubling in core-count form the past generations, but the nature of these 8 cores is not yet known.
Among the SKUs in the leak are the Core Ultra 3 205, and the Core Ultra 3 215, both of which are 8-core chips. The two are probably differentiated in a similar manner to past generations of Intel Core i3 desktop did, using cache sizes (eg: Core i3-10100 and i3-10300). The chips probably feature a 4P+4E core configuration, as a "2P+6E" configuration might not be possible, as the E-core clusters are indivisible, although we don't know if the same rule applies to the "Skymont" E-core clusters. The dedicated L2 caches of both the P-cores and E-core clusters could be smaller than on Core Ultra 5 and above SKUs. The Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processor uses "Lion Cove" P-cores with 2.5 MB of L2 cache per core, while the Core Ultra 9 285K probably has "Lion Cove" P-cores with 3 MB of L2 cache per core.
Sources:
OneRaichu (Twitter), PCGamesN
Among the SKUs in the leak are the Core Ultra 3 205, and the Core Ultra 3 215, both of which are 8-core chips. The two are probably differentiated in a similar manner to past generations of Intel Core i3 desktop did, using cache sizes (eg: Core i3-10100 and i3-10300). The chips probably feature a 4P+4E core configuration, as a "2P+6E" configuration might not be possible, as the E-core clusters are indivisible, although we don't know if the same rule applies to the "Skymont" E-core clusters. The dedicated L2 caches of both the P-cores and E-core clusters could be smaller than on Core Ultra 5 and above SKUs. The Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processor uses "Lion Cove" P-cores with 2.5 MB of L2 cache per core, while the Core Ultra 9 285K probably has "Lion Cove" P-cores with 3 MB of L2 cache per core.
22 Comments on Intel Readies Core Ultra 3 205, Brings E-cores to the "3" Tier
So this move make sense to me. With 8 cores, you still have those 8 threads former i3 had.
My guess will be a 4p + 4e core configuration. 2p cores seems to little and 6p + 2e cores is to good to be true knowing intel.
Using Windows on a N100 with 4 physical E cores is better than an older I3 or older I5 that is 2 cores with HT.
It is possible such a CPU could exist but, like I said, never under the "Intel Core" brand.
I think it will be interesting to compare Raptor Cove cores to Lion Cove cores as you can generally disable the E-cores in the bios and see how a new arch without HT goes against the old arch with HT. I suspect it won't make as much of a difference as people expect.
Core Ultra 3
Core Ultra 5
Core Ultra 7
Super Ultra
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Captain Ultra
Tide Ultra Oxi
and finally
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it´s ram is doing some magical things because it never gets full it seems...
I don't know if memory management can be called magic outside Clarke's third law. :D
Chrome OS uses a technique called zRAM to compress infrequently used data in memory.
This effectively creates more free space, allowing more tabs and apps to remain active without causing slowdowns.