A cryptic glimpse into the forthcoming Intel Arrow Lake lineup emerges with the sudden appearance of a mysterious new CPU in a leaked CPU-Z screenshot, unveiling several details about the enigmatic processor. While speculation surrounds the impending release of a novel device, a recently surfaced image offers a conclusive glimpse into the product’s identity, with its “Core Extremely” moniker unequivocally confirmed by the leaked screen capture.
Intel’s Arrow Lake processors are poised to hit the market sooner than the end of 2024, with a crucial challenge awaiting: vying for top billing in the competitive world of gaming CPUs against AMD’s formidable offerings. By then, AMD is expected to have not only released its first Zen 5 CPUs but also put its initial Ryzen 9000X3D processors on the market.
The CPU in the screenshot features “(ES)” following its title, implying an Intel engineering sample, thus indicating it is not representative of the final, retail-available silicon. The screenshot, originally shared on X (formerly Twitter) by tech leaker wxnod, contains several key specifications, with some details obscured by blue scribbles, likely intended to protect the leaker’s anonymity. While we will likely glean a few key details,
This CPU boasts a maximum TDP of 125W, bearing an “Ok” suffix on its model number, indicating an unlocked multiplier for Intel’s CPUs with overclockable P-cores. The clock speed specifications are further disclosed, indicating that the chip runs at an impressive 5 GHz frequency with a 50x multiplier in place.
The latter’s capabilities are proven to range from 4x to at least 50x, though its determination is unclear after “5” has been crossed out, leaving uncertainty as to whether it tops out at 50x (5GHz) or not; if so, that would be a relatively low clock speed for an Ok-series Intel CPU – even the Core i5-14600K can reach up to 5.3GHz.
Rumors suggest that Intel’s Arrow Lake processors will reportedly run at slower clock speeds compared to their 14th-generation counterparts, such as the Core i9-14900K, with the flagship Core Extreme 9-285K allegedly capping out at a modest 5.7GHz boost clock. The CPU in the screenshot is unequivocally linked to the Arrow Lake codename and utilizes the LGA1851 socket, characteristics also found in the impending Intel Z890 motherboard chipset, according to reports.
While CPU-Z curiously identifies the manufacturing process as a mere 7nm, others have swiftly pounced on this point with skepticism. A prominent tech insider, Kepler_L2, bluntly attributes the issue to a straightforward mistake, asserting that Arrow Lake doesn’t employ 7nm technology.
The CPU-Z screenshot provides further insight into the processor’s architecture, revealing details on its cache configuration. Specifically, each P-Core boasts a generous 48KB of L1 knowledge cache, while each E-Core is equipped with a more modest 32KB. Meanwhile, both P-Cores and E-Cores share equally in the instruction caching department, each receiving a healthy 64KB allocation for L1 instructions. While Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs exhibit a subtle departure from their norm, featuring solely 32KB of L1 instruction cache per P-Core. Meanwhile, the P-Cores’ L2 cache has increased significantly from 2MB per core to a substantial 3MB, outpacing its Raptor Lake counterpart. Additionally, there is a shared Level 3 (L3) cache among all cores in the processor, ensuring efficient data sharing and coordination among multiple processing threads.
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