Intel to Go Ahead with "Meteor Lake" 6P+16E Processor on the Desktop Platform?

THU31 · Mar 3, 2023

regs said:
Those Crestmont cores are quite more powerful than Skylake cores in 8700K. They won't have hyper threading, but 2 real cores are more powerful than a virtual thread. So just E-core block alone would be better than 8700K.

Have you seen any gaming benchmarks using just the E-cores? I tried googling but found no results.

TPU did such a test for the 12900K, where the E-cores were significantly behind the 10600K in games where single-threaded performance matters. The new E-cores have double the cache and higher clock speeds, so a test like this would be interesting.

It doesn't change the point, though, that a gamer looking for a new CPU will only look at the P-cores. So while an i5 with 6 P-cores is fine, an i7 would be a complete waste of money, just like the i9 is right now.

regs · Mar 3, 2023

THU31 said:
Have you seen any gaming benchmarks using just the E-cores? I tried googling but found no results.

TPU did such a test for the 12900K, where the E-cores were significantly behind the 10600K in games where single-threaded performance matters. The new E-cores have double the cache and higher clock speeds, so a test like this would be interesting.

It doesn't change the point, though, that a gamer looking for a new CPU will only look at the P-cores. So while an i5 with 6 P-cores is fine, an i7 would be a complete waste of money, just like the i9 is right now.

6 P-cores are enough for games that do not require massive threading and paralleling, like strategy games. You getting your cache and clocks in those. But in strategy games and games with huge amount of NPC that require row compute power and threading difference would be noticeable.

720p, where you hit the ceil of API overhead and where it doesn't matter whatever it's 300 fps or 350 fps.
Still it's as fast as 6-core 9400F at lower clocks.

But in 4K there is no difference

jallenlabs · Mar 10, 2023

Why all the hate for e cores? If youre a gamer, yeah, turn em off if you want. But if you do anything else on your pc, those e cores can make a significant difference.

jayjr1105 · Mar 10, 2023

P4-630 said:
Just 6P's , IPC must be really good...

Lol, like that's the reason it's only 6.

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Intel to Go Ahead with "Meteor Lake" 6P+16E Processor on the Desktop Platform?

THU31

regs

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