A brand new Intel CPU has simply leaked, and it’s among the many extra intriguing new processors we’ve seen in a while. The Intel Processor 310 is a model new product primarily based on the corporate’s newest Raptor Lake-S structure, however it has simply two cores.
This tiny quantity of processing cores stands in stark distinction to many of the remainder of the corporate’s Raptor Lake lineup, with its Intel Core i-branded chips bottoming out at 4 cores and rising to 24 cores for its flagship Core i9 14900K. As such, it’s honest to say this new Intel chip gained’t be a greatest gaming CPU contender. Nevertheless, there’s sufficient right here that makes us marvel simply what it might be like to make use of such a lowly chip as a gaming CPU.
Crucially, the brand new CPU does seem to incorporate assist for Hyper-Threading, which permits every core of the CPU to deal with two software threads at a time, in impact showing to your system as – and considerably appearing as – a quad-core chip. This issue alone implies that the chip stands an opportunity of at the very least operating most fashionable video games, which wouldn’t be the case with a purely dual-core chip, as many video games now require at the very least a quad-core processor.
The small print of this chip have been noticed on the Geekbench web site – an everyday supply of CPU leaks, as exams utilizing the app can mechanically replace the web site with the check consequence – X (previously Twitter) person @BenchLeaks seen the brand new information for this one. The complete check run reveals the efficiency, identify, and different particulars of the CPU, as proven additional down this web page.
Notably, the brand new processor can run at as much as 4.1GHz, which is effectively beneath the 6GHz of its quickest Raptor Lake chips however remains to be a superbly respectable tempo for lighter workloads. The chip additionally has 6MB of L3 cache – examine that to the 96MB of the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, as an example. It’s additionally proven utilizing 8GB of DDR4 RAM operating at 3200MT/s, configured in a single-channel association, which means there’s just one stick of reminiscence.
Whereas this chip is technically nonetheless a brand new, unannounced mannequin, we truly can surmise a number of extra particulars about it as Intel additionally introduced a close to an identical chip referred to as the Intel Processor 300 final yr, the main points of that are on Intel’s web site right here. This chip makes use of simply the P-Cores of Intel’s fashionable Raptor Lake structure, so there are not any power-efficient E-Cores, and it’s rated to make use of simply 46W of energy. The 310 simply seems to be a really barely faster-clocked model of that chip.
As for the efficiency of this CPU, the usage of a single-channel reminiscence configuration on this check will doubtlessly restrict its efficiency a bit of, however its Geekbench single-threaded rating of two,152 is definitely nonetheless sufficient to beat the likes of the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and maintain its personal towards different low-level Intel Core i3 chips. Nevertheless, its multi-threaded rating of 4,254 could be very low, with solely the likes of the Intel Core i3-10100 (a four-year-old chip primarily based on an outdated structure) being crushed by it.
We don’t but know the Intel Processor 310 value, however contemplating the Intel Processor 300’s really useful value vary is $82-$92, we’d hope this chip wouldn’t price any greater than $10 additional. A precise launch date can be not but recognized.
So, within the meantime, we’d suggest studying our Intel Core i5-12400F evaluate to see the very best low cost gaming CPU we at present suggest. It prices simply $110, which isn’t far more cash, and it has six P-Cores with a 4.4GHz increase clock.
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