the biggest CPU revolution in 3 years?

Intel announces its Core Ultra 200S with tempting promises: increased performance, reduced energy consumption and redesigned architecture.

Intel has disappointed with its latest generations of desktop processors. His models of 13th and 14th generation offered only minor improvements over their predecessors.

However, with the arrival of Core Ultra 200Sthe situation could change. This new processor, under the code name Arrow Lakeintegrates technologies from the ranges Core Ultra 100 and 200.

The changes are notable: design chip-basedarchitecture CPU and GPU updated, advanced manufacturing technology. And, great news, a neural processing unit (NPU), to accelerate certain workloads related to AI and machine learning. Launch planned for October 24.

Let’s see what Intel Core Ultra 200S has in its belly

The transition to a conception chip-based marks an important milestone for Intel with its technology packaging Foveros.

Core Ultra 200S processors will be based on several silicon tiles who communicate via a “ tuile de base » manufactured by Intel. This design makes it possible to integrate 3, 5 and 6 nm TSMC chipsdedicated respectively to the hearts CPU, GPUand other essential functions, such as NPU and memory management DDR5.

Intel thus promises a 10% increase multi-core performance and 30% discount of energy consumption. THE Integrated GPU East twice as fast than that of previous generations.

Three processors were revealed, with variants without GPUfrom 294 $ for the Core Ultra 5. The most efficient, the Core Ultra 9 285Kis proposed to 589 $.

These chips are unlocked and overclockablewith differences in clock speed and number of cores. THE 245K offers six P cores and eight E cores, while the 285K reaches eight P cores and 16 E cores, with a maximum frequency of 5.7 GHz.

P cores adopt architecture Lion Covealready present in Lunar Lakewith deletion ofhyper-threading. This makes it possible to optimize the silicon space, thanks to hearts E low consumption.

The performance of cœurs E Skymont are greatly improved, with significant gains on floating point tasks. In games, results are close to those of processors of 14th generationbut with consumption reduced by 73 W and a temperature lower by 13 degrees Celsius.

Intel’s biggest revolution in 3 years is (still) not enough

Intel introduces its first desktop processor with an NPUbut AMD beat it with its series Ryzen 8000G. Explanations.

Intel’s NPU is not not compatible with Copilot+ on Windows 11. Why? because it only reaches 13 TOPSfar from 40 trillion operations per second required by Microsoft.

Intel has probably finalized Arrow Lake before Microsoft sets its news requirements for Copilot+ in May. Unfortunately, the NPU of these new processors is not not up to par progress made by the P-cores et E-colors.

It may be necessary to wait for next generations to see improvements…

Regarding the GPUArrow Lake offers a model based on the old architecture “ Alchemist” , with four Xe cores. This GPU supports ray tracing and scaling XeSS.

However, it should be noted that it is intended for basic uses and not demanding games. Its role will mainly be to manage additional screens in high-end configurations with dedicated GPUs.

As for the processors KFit is uncertain whether they will offer a accelerated video encoding by hardware, usually supported by the GPU. However, this function could be present in the SoC tile.

THE 800 series chipsets support up to 24 PCIe 4.0 lanes, two Thunderbolt 4 ports10 USB 3.2 ports, the Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3. The new processors adopt a socket LGA1851compatible with some existing coolers, but adaptations may be necessary according to the manufacturer.

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