Intel Arrow Lake Processors: Upcoming Release with Enhanced L2 Cache

Intel may equip its upcoming Arrow Lake processors with 3MB of L2 cache per P-core. That’s a fifty percent increase over the current Raptor Lake series. The Arrow Lake CPUs should be released next year.

The Intel Arrow Lake-S desktop processors get according to Bilibili User Golden Pig Upgrade 3MB L2 cache for each Performance core, commented @9550pro. Golden Pig Upgrade shared accurate Intel rumors in the past. These processors therefore receive considerably more L2 cache than their predecessors. The current Raptor Lake generation has 2MB of L2 cache per P-core. The P-cores in the 2021 Alder Lake chips each had 1.25MB of L2 cache. Rocket Lake had 512kB L2 per core.

It is unknown how many cores the Arrow Lake series will receive. If the maximum amount of P-cores remains unchanged from Raptor Lake, the chips would get a total of 24MB of L2 cache, spread across eight cores. It is unknown how much L3 cache the Arrow Lake series will get. The amount of cache for the more energy-efficient E-cores is also still unknown.

The Arrow Lake series is planned for 2024. Intel is expected to release desktop and laptop processors in that series. The processors will have, among other things, a chiplet-like structure with tiles and a new socket: LGA1851. This year, Intel is also coming out with a similar Meteor Lake architecture, although those processors only appear in laptops.

Processorserie

Alder Lake
Raptor Lake
Meteor Lake
Arrow Lake

Platform

Desktop/laptop
Desktop/laptop
Laptop
Desktop/laptop

Cpu-node

Intel 7
Intel 7
Intel 4
Intel 20A (of Intel 3)

Socket

LGA1700
LGA1700
N.v.t.
LGA1851

Architectuur P-core

Golden Cove
Raptor Cove
Redwood Cove
N.n.b.

L2-cache per P-core

1,25MB
2MB
N.n.b.
3MB

Architecture E-core Gracemont Gracemont Crestmont
Crestmont

L2-cache per vier E-cores

2MB
4MB
N.n.b.
N.n.b.

Release

2021
2022
2023
2024

2023-08-14 07:38:41
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