Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs will be featuring a brand new iGPU based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG IP. This GPU is expected to be a major component of the chip and feature great graphics & compute capabilities over the previous generation Iris Xe chips.
Intel Meteor Lake "Core Ultra 9" CPUs Detailed: Up To 5 GHz CPU Clocks, 2.2 GHz Arc Xe-LPG GPU Clocks, 16-Core SKUs Between 20-65W
As per information revealed by Golden Pig Upgrade, the Intel Meteor Lake "Core Ultra 9" CPUs that will be the top chips within the 1st Gen Core Ultra lineup will be offering some decent clock speeds. They will be nothing groundbreaking compared to existing chips which can boost up to 5.4 GHz but considering that these are the first generation chips on a new process node, they will still run at 5.0 GHz clocks.
EV QS cTDP 20-65W 6P+8E+2LPE Up to 4.8 GHz 128EU Up to 2.2 GHz Ultra 9 is expected to go to 5GHz, there are still a few months, good luck
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So starting with the details, the leaker has acquired details from an EV QS sample that features a configurable TDP between 20 to 65 Watts. This chip comes in the top configuration in a 6+8+2LPE package. These include 6 Performance cores based on the Redwood Cove architecture, 8 Efficiency cores based on the Crestmont architecture, and 2 additional Crestmont Cores that will be found in the SOC tile. This forms a 20-core and 22-thread configuration. This is pretty much the same config we saw at Computex 2023 with 1.6 MB of L1, 18 MB of L2, and 24 MB of L3 cache.
Moving over to the iGPU side, we know that Intel will be leveraging from its Arc Alchemist graphics architecture in its Xe-LPG variation. This chip will pack a total of 128 EUs within the GPU title which utilizes TSMC's 5nm process node while the CPU compute tile will be utilizing Intel 4 process node. It is reported that the iGPU can clock up to 2.2 GHz which is a slight boost over the 2.1 GHz we saw with a previous leaked ES chip.
This should put the FP32 compute performance of the chip around 4.5 TFLOPs. This is a 2.25x increase in compute power over the Iris Xe 96 EU graphics found on the Raptor Lake-H CPUs. Comparison cannot be made with AMD's RDNA GPUs since they have a different architecture & also compute the FP32 TFLOPs differently but it looks like that Intel may take a lead over AMD's Radeon 700M "RDNA 3" iGPUs by a fair amount. Manufacturers have already cited up to RTX 3050 performance out of this iGPU.
Intel Meteor Lake-P GPU Performance (Compute TFLOPs)
Intel Meteor Lake Mobility CPU Lineup Expected Features:
- Triple-Hybrid CPU Architecture (P/E/LP-E Cores)
- Brand New Redwood Cove (P-Cores)
- Brand New Crestmont (E-Cores)
- Up To 14 Cores (6+8) For H/P Series & Up To 12 Cores (4+8) For U Series CPUs
- Intel 4 Process Node For CPU, TSMC For tGPU
- Intel 'Xe-MTL' GPU With Up To 192/128 EUs
- Up To LPDDR5X-7467 & DDR5-5200 Support
- Up To 96 GB DDR5 & 64 GB LPDDR5X Capacities
- Intel VPU For AI Inferencing With Atom Cores
- x8 Gen 5 Lanes For Discrete GPU (Only H-Series)
- Triple x4 M.2 Gen 4 SSD Support
- Four Thunderbolt 4 Ports
Intel reaffirmed during its recent earnings call that the company will ramp up the production of its Meteor Lake CPUs in 2H 2023 around October-November so expect more news later this year.
Intel Mobility CPU Lineup:
CPU Family | Arrow Lake | Meteor Lake | Raptor Lake | Alder Lake |
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Process Node (CPU Tile) | Intel 20A '5nm EUV" | Intel 4 '7nm EUV' | Intel 7 '10nm ESF' | Intel 7 '10nm ESF' |
Process Node (GPU Tile) | TSMC 3nm | TSMC 5nm | Intel 7 '10nm ESF' | Intel 7 '10nm ESF' |
CPU Architecture | Hybrid (Four-Core) | Hybrid (Triple-Core) | Hybrid (Dual-Core) | Hybrid (Dual-Core) |
P-Core Architecture | Lion Cove | Redwood Cove | Raptor Cove | Golden Cove |
E-Core Architecture | Skymont | Crestmont | Gracemont | Gracemont |
Top Configuration | TBD | 6+8 (H-Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 8+16 (HX-Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 8+8 (HX-Series) |
Max Cores / Threads | TBD | 14/20 | 14/20 | 14/20 |
Planned Lineup | H/P/U Series | H/P/U Series | H/P/U Series | H/P/U Series |
GPU Architecture | Xe2 Battlemage 'Xe-LPG' or Xe3 Celestial "Xe-LPG" | Xe-LPG 'Xe-MTL' | Iris Xe (Gen 12) | Iris Xe (Gen 12) |
GPU Execution Units | 192 EUs (1024 Cores)? | 128 EUs (1024 Cores) | 96 EUs (768 Cores) | 96 EUs (768 Cores) |
Memory Support | TBD | DDR5-5600 LPDDR5-7400 LPDDR5X - 7400+ | DDR5-5200 LPDDR5-5200 LPDDR5-6400 | DDR5-4800 LPDDR5-5200 LPDDR5X-4267 |
Memory Capacity (Max) | TBD | 96 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
Thunderbolt 4 Ports | TBD | 4 | 4 | 4 |
WiFi Capability | TBD | WiFi 6E | WiFi 6E | WiFi 6E |
TDP | TBD | 7W-45W | 15-55W | 15-55W |
Launch | 2H 2024? | 2H 2023 | 1H 2023 | 1H 2022 |
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