Intel Nova Lake Core Ultra 400 tipped to offer 10% higher single-thread and 60% gains in multi-thread, will be the first desktop part to feature new low-power island cores

[Redaktion]

A recent leak suggests that Intel's upcoming Nova Lake Core Ultra 400 series processors could offer up to 10% higher single-thread and 60% higher multi-threaded performance purportedly in comparison with Arrow Lake-S. Nova Lake-S will also be the first desktop CPUs to feature low-power island E-cores. This should augur well for both gaming and efficiency, although the leaked numbers do raise an eyebrow.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Nova-Lake-Core-Ultra-400-tipped-to-offer-10-higher-single-thread-and-60-gains-in-multi-thread-will-be-the-first-desktop-part-to-feature-new-low-power-island-cores.1049692.0.html

[Terror Byte]

What are they comparing when they say 60% multithreaded applications? Nova Lake with 16P + 32E +4LP-E has 62% more cores than Arrow Lakes 8P + 24E cores, so a 60% uplift is rather poor. Even if we ignore the LP-E cores, Nova has a 50% uplift in cores so a 60% uplift in multithreading is still very weak given the massive architectural changes, improved cores, IPC and clock uplifts. I suspect Nova Ultra 9 will do better than 60% compared to Arrow Ultra 9.

As for gaming leadership LOL, Zen 6 gets 12 core ccd's, 10-15% IPC uplifts, 7GHz clocks, faster IF, faster memory support, 10800X3D with 12 cores and at least 6GHz boost clocks will be insane and Zen 7 is even more crazy.

[jayn2]

I like their xeon-6 low end chips.  Their low end has 16 or 24 cores, and you get the xeon accelerators.  I don't know why everyone worries about gamer chips.  You can get a b580 and plug it in next to a xeon ... I do that.  But I'm using it to run the dpc++ apps.