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Intel has unveiled more details about its upcoming mobile CPU generation, codename Lunar Lake. To launch under the same Core Ultra umbrella as previousBefore we talk AI—which really is inescapable right now—let's get to the fundamentals of Lunar Lake.
The new P-cores are built with the Lion Cove architecture, which Intel's Robert Hallock, technical marketing chief, says are wider, with higher IPC, though lower frequency than the Redwood Cove cores of Meteor Lake. These share up to 12MB of L3 cache and have Hyper-Threading disabled. That's one massive change with Lunar Lake. The E-cores supposedly are good enough to no longer require doubling the available threads on the P-cores.The new E-cores are built with the Skymont architecture.
Thread Director is the key to keeping these cores working effectively, and Intel is working with Microsoft to include new 'OS containment zones' to help get the most efficiency out of its latest chips. The default process with Lunar Lake, seeing as it's a mobile chip, is to hand a task to the E-cores to save power, see if that works out, and if not, throw it over to the P-cores.a 40% overall power saving with Lunar Lake versus Meteor Lake.
Speaking of memory, Lunar Lake includes either 16GB or 32GB of LPDDR5X memory directly on the SoC package. Another way to save on power and latency, according to Intel. This approach effectively banishes laptops with only 8GB of memory to the annals of history, too.The GPU component within Lunar Lake is of particular interest to PC gamers, however, for two reasons.
Lunar Lake is our first glimpse at what sort of performance uplift we can expect between Battlemage and Alchemist—albeit in a much smaller, low-power configuration. Intel hasn't provided specific gaming benchmarks to satisfy the detail-oriented among us, however. Though it does state that drivers will remain unified across desktop and mobile GPUs.
How that goes down will all depend on how Lunar Lake stacks up versus the competition. On that note, Intel has kept rather quiet for now.
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