Intel Nova Lake enthusiast desktop CPUs expected to launch in H2 2026 with more than 60% IPC gains over Raptor Lake

[Redaktion]

Nova Lake would launch as an Arrow Lake Refresh successor by H2 2026 with up to 16 rentable unit P-cores + 32 E-cores + 4 LP cores and up to 180 MB last level cache. It could be built with either TSMC's N2P nodes or Intel's own 14A nodes.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Nova-Lake-enthusiast-desktop-CPUs-expected-to-launch-in-H2-2026-with-more-than-60-IPC-gains-over-Raptor-Lake.757803.0.html

[toto1234]

"20-40% single-thread performance gains over Arrow Lake"

At this point, it's just reading tea leaves and chicken entrails, and throwing random numbers.

[Nihil]

sources close to Moore's Law Is Dead

Oh, so completely made up then. Nevermind.

[Mr Majestyk]

Also let's take that release date with a a dozen buckets of slt too. Arrow Lake is already slipping.