Intel Alder Lake is scheduled to be released at the end of 2021 or early 2022. It is supposed to give PCIe 5.0 support, DDR5 memory support, and bring a new chipset and slot series.
The well-known tipster revealed that Alder Lake’s high-performance ‘big core’ has an IPC increase of up to 20%, an average gain of 16-18% for all-core IPC, and has a core up to 5GHz. Frequency, the overall single-core performance is improved by nearly 30%.
Additionally, because Intel utilizes a ‘newer’ 10nm node, it is expected that the power consumption of the hybrid processor will also be 15% lower than the existing Comet Lake-S and other Skylake derivatives.
Taken together, Intel’s 12th-generation processor Alder Lake is supposed to be the same or stronger than processors based on the AMD Zen 3 architecture (including the top Ryzen 9 5900X).
Intel also has low-power small cores code-named Grace Mont that are only relatively small, but in fact, they should be the same as the most popular Skylake cores.
As we all know, Skylake has seen updates on the desktop platform in the past five years. If Golden Cove is indeed 20% better than Willow Cove, then we can expect the single-thread performance improvement of Intel’s new generation processors.
In addition, mobile-grade Alder Lake-P chips also have twice as many cores as Tiger Lake-U, while desktop products are supposed to reach 16 cores. For Alder Lake-S (LGA1700) desktop series.
Some specification is as follows:
- Core i9: 8 GC + 8GM cores
- Core i7 / Core i5: 6-8 GC + 0-8GM
- Core i3: 4-6GC + 0GM (no low-power core)
The specifications of the mobile platform Alder Lake-P are still uncertain. Although engineering samples with up to 6 Golden Cove (large) cores and 8 Grace Mont have been found, it is not clear whether the final retail version will include 14-core models or up to 10 (8 + 2) or 12 (8 + 4) nuclear design.
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