This mysterious new Intel gaming CPU just popped up in CPU-Z

A mysterious new CPU from the forthcoming Intel Arrow Lake lineup has simply surfaced in a leaked CPU-Z screenshot, revealing a number of particulars concerning the new processor. As with many different rumors about the forthcoming new Intel gaming CPU vary, the screenshot clearly reveals the Core Extremely branding, and this leak additionally reveals the clock velocity of the chip.

Intel is anticipated to launch its new Arrow Lake chips earlier than the top of 2024, but it surely’s going to need to struggle AMD for one of the best gaming CPU title. By this time, AMD is not going to solely have launched its first Zen 5 CPUs, but it surely’s additionally anticipated to have its first Ryzen 9000X3D chips out the door.

The CPU within the screenshot has “(ES)” after its identify, which implies its an Intel engineering pattern, and as such it’s not consultant of the ultimate silicon that will probably be available for purchase at retail. A number of of the important thing specs within the screenshot, which was revealed in an X (previously Twitter) publish by tech leaker wxnod, have additionally been blocked out by blue scribbles, presumably to guard the leaker’s identification. We will glean a number of particulars, although.

Firstly, this CPU has a most TDP of 125W and has a Okay suffix on the finish of its mannequin quantity, that means will probably be one in every of Intel’s CPUs with unlocked multiplier, so you possibly can overclock its P-Cores. The clock speeds are additionally revealed, with the chip working at 5GHz utilizing a 50x multiplier.

The latter is proven as with the ability to fluctuate from 4x to at the very least 50x, however the determine after “5” has been scribbled out, so we don’t know the utmost determine – if it tops out at 50x (5GHz), although, then that’s a relatively low clock velocity for a Okay-series Intel CPU – even the Core i5 14600K can increase to five.3GHz.

Intel Arrow Lake clock speeds are rumored to be decrease than these of 14th-gen CPUs, such because the Core i9 14900K, with the top-end Core Extremely 9 285K rumored to be topping out at a 5.7GHz increase clock. The CPU within the screenshot can also be proven to have the Arrow Lake codename and use the LGA1851 socket, as used on the reportedly forthcoming Intel Z890 motherboard chipset.

Apparently, CPU-Z additionally detects the manufacturing course of as simply 7nm, however different commentators have already jumped on this level. “It’s simply CPU-Z being dumb, ARL [Arrow Lake] doesn’t use 7nm for something,” claims common tech leaker Kepler_L2.

The CPU-Z screenshot additionally reveals the cache construction, with 48KB of L1 knowledge cache per P-Core, and 32KB per E-Core, whereas each the P-Cores and E-Cores every get 64KB of L1 instruction cache. That’s a slight distinction from Intel’s Raptor Lake CPUs, which solely have 32KB of L1 instruction cache per P-Core. In the meantime, the P-Cores’ L2 cache has additionally gone up from 2MB per core to 3MB in comparison with Raptor Lake. There’s additionally a shared L3 cache between all of the cores, however the whole determine has been scribbled out.

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