We already know from numerous unofficial sources that Intel’s upcoming thirteenth Technology Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processor is a largely ‘quantitative’ relatively than ‘qualitative’ replace to the corporate’s twelfth Gen Core ‘Alder Lake’ CPUs. Nevertheless, Intel apparently has a doc that formally confirms each processors share the identical microarchitectures. In the meantime, Redwood Cove and Crestmont cores are confirmed to energy Meteor Lake.
Intel’s Prime-down Microarchitecture Evaluation doc, which isn’t accessible to common public, mentions Alder Lake and Raptor Lake CPUs as utilizing the identical microarchitectures, similar to it does to Kaby Lake, Espresso Lake, and Comet Lake CPUs, in line with @InstLatX64, a widely known {hardware} leaker who analyzes documentation for software program builders.
Formally, Intel’s Raptor Lake processors are geared up with as much as eight high-performance Raptor Cove cores in addition to 16 energy-efficient Gracemont cores. On paper, Raptor Cove is completely different from Golden Cove which energy Alder Lake, but it surely seems like from software program perspective each cores are the identical factor. In the meantime, Gracemont cores had been meant to be shared between completely different generations given Intel’s low-power core improvement cadence.
However whereas Intel’s thirteenth Technology Core ‘Raptor Lake’ processors could add energy-efficient cores, improve clocks, and perhaps a couple of extra perks, its successor will certainly be a relatively game-changing product.
Intel’s 14th Technology Core ‘Meteor Lake’ processor would be the firm’s first consumer product to make use of a multi-chiplet design in addition to the primary product to make use of Intel 4 course of know-how fabrication know-how (beforehand generally known as 7nm EUV) for compute tile. Talking of compute tiles, we must always point out that it’s going to use high-performance Redwood Cove cores and energy-efficient Crestmont cores, as revealed by @InstLatX64 in one other publish citing a PerfMon mapfile.csv obtained from an undisclosed supply.
Contemplating the truth that Meteor Lake will use all-new CPU microarchitectures, we must always most likely anticipate new ranges of efficiency and effectivity on the whole objective workloads. Moreover, since built-in GPU will now use a separate tile, it is not going to be as constrained by die measurement as considerably as it’s right this moment, so anticipate some extra efficiency as nicely.
