Friday, September 13th 2024
Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPUs Specifications Leaked
There is only a month left before the official launch of Intel new "Arrow Lake" CPUs. Now, we have a new leak revealing what appear to be the final specs for Intel's Core Ultra 200 'Arrow Lake' desktop CPUs series. According to Benchlife, Intel is preparing to release five SKUs. Although there is no KF version of the Core Ultra 9 285K yet, the new CPUs include: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K, Core Ultra 7 265KF, Core Ultra 5 245K, and Core Ultra 5 245KF. These processors will also be accompanied by new Z890 chipset motherboards.
The "K" model will have Xe-LPG-based integrated graphics, while the "KF" model will require a discrete GPU. Intel plans to expand its Arrow Lake lineup in early 2025 with non-K models. These new CPUs are expected to offer increased performance compared to their 13th and 14th generation predecessors. The new architecture aims to eliminate stability issues and reduce real-world power consumption.
Flagship Model: Core Ultra 9 285K
Sources:
Benchlife, VideoCardz
The "K" model will have Xe-LPG-based integrated graphics, while the "KF" model will require a discrete GPU. Intel plans to expand its Arrow Lake lineup in early 2025 with non-K models. These new CPUs are expected to offer increased performance compared to their 13th and 14th generation predecessors. The new architecture aims to eliminate stability issues and reduce real-world power consumption.
- 24 cores (8 P-cores + 16 E-cores) and 24 threads
- Lion Cove architecture for P-cores and Skymont for E-cores
- 76 MB total cache (36 MB L3 + 40 MB L2)
- Base clocks: 3.7 GHz (P-cores) / 3.2 GHz (E-cores)
- Boost clocks: 5.7 GHz (P-cores) / 4.6 GHz (E-cores)
- TDP: 125 W (PL1) / 250 W (PL2)
- 20 cores (8 P-cores + 12 E-cores) and 20 threads
- 66 MB total cache (30 MB L3 + 36 MB L2)
- Base clocks: 3.9 GHz (P-cores) / 3.3 GHz (E-cores)
- Boost clocks: 5.5 GHz (P-cores) / 4.6 GHz (E-cores)
- TDP: 125 W (PL1) / 250 W (PL2)
- 14 cores (6 P-cores + 8 E-cores) and 14 threads
- 50 MB total cache (24 MB L3 + 26 MB L2)
- Base clocks: 4.2 GHz (P-cores) / 3.6 GHz (E-cores)
- Boost clocks: 5.2 GHz (P-cores) / 4.6 GHz (E-cores)
- TDP: 125 W (PL1) / 159 W (PL2)
58 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake CPUs Specifications Leaked
Even worse, they didn't admit to knowing what the exact problem was while Arrow Lake was in mass production. Or did they?
All I see is a constant repeat of the same shit; keeping things under the rug for as long as possible, and then lying your way to the least unfavorable outcome for shareholders. Fuck everyone else, no in fact, screw the shareholders too, because now the share price is in the shitter anyway. Intel exists for one primary purpose: itself and its management. Every time, you get sold something that's supposedly faster, but oops, nope, gotta cap that perf because Meltdown hits... or your K-chip won't actually really run well at its advertised clock and most certainly won't overclock much beyond it; or just their own overenthusiastic marketing department happened... or the chips might have degraded, who knows... the list is far too long.
There's but one lesson to be learned here: Karma is a Bitch. I honestly don't trust Intel on anything they release at this point anymore. If I ever buy anything of them again, it will be a generation of CPUs that's been in the wild for two years at least. Early adopting anything blue... not in my wildest dreams, ever, again.
Arrow Lake-S is supposedly reusing the failed Meteor Lake-S design (which got partially repurposed into the embedded line Meteor Lake-PS) which is using separate CPU and iGPU chiplets/tiles.
It's possible that Intel had fabricated many more iGPU tiles than they used for Meteor Lake-PS, and are using them with Arrow Lake-S simply to keep the cost down. It's just my speculation tho.
Unless there is a significant ipc gain, i am not impressed so far. It even has lower max turbo clock compared to last gen (yes i know core clock is not all).
But still lower core clock, no ht and a very similar design/line up compared to last gen. Its hardly much to be excited so far.
But intel has give 15 gen a good amount of ekstra cashe and we have seen before more cashe can do wunders for gaming performance (just look at amd's 3D chips) and if intel also has increased ipc gains line 10 %, 15 gen could still be a good cpu. But so far on paper at least, there is not much to be excited about accept more cashe.
Intel 4 was -or now is- always exclusively a mobile node for Meteor Lake only. It's also a crap node if you look at Meteor Lake's metrics. It failed to impress in performance and efficiency.
If everything would have gone according to Intel's plans then they would have loved to manufacture at least some tiles of Arrow Lake on their 20A node which was repeatedly referred to as an important stepping stone on the path to the all important 18A node.
20A was also supposed to introduce BSP and GAA but even these key technologies are not going to happen this year because Intel scrapped the 20A node entirely. 20A was supposed to be a bridge to 18A by introducing this tech gradually.
None of this is happening now because Intel could not hack it. They are hoping to get their act together with 18A next year (it's always "next year" with Intel for almost the past decade by now ;) ).
Both, Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake will now be 100% manufactured by TSMC. Here's a pretty good summary of how and why Intel ended up cancelling 20A which resulted in them being forced to outsource Lunar and Arrow Lake to TSMC.
Arrow Lake will only be packaged at IFS.
4 E-cores offer more MT throughput than 1 P-core would, while using less power and taking up less area. Why on earth would I want Intel to print a uniform 12 P-core design that uses more power and offers less MT performance than an 8P+16E design?
2) They likely have known about the issues for much longer than they let on
I still wouldn't trust these chips for at the very least a year though, and they'd need to have much better performance per dollar than AMD's offerings