In 2024, Intel Arrow Lake processors could overtake Raptor Lake by more than 20%

Not expected until fall 2024, the Arrow Lake-S generation needs to change a lot for the processors say desktop.

Arrow Lake-S? Already ? Igor’s Lab catches everyone off guard by releasing (courtesy Intel?!) documents giving a glimpse of what next-gen performance might be like.

8 performing cores, 16 efficient cores

While Intel has changed its nomenclature, the Arrow Lake-S generation will probably never be officially called “15^e generation”, but for us, it’s still quite practical!

This 15^e generation should not be released before the fall of 2024, since, as you know, Intel is content with a refresh of the Raptor Lake range for this end of the year on the desktop segment. Laptop processors will be entitled to a more frank novelty with the release of Meteor Lake processors.

Arrow Lake-S will also be an opportunity to introduce a number of changes made by Meteor Lake on the desktop segment. The documents obtained by Igor’s Lab are therefore of particular interest.

Between 3 and 21% better on the CPU part

It is thus a question of ” performance projection “, in other words information that is never transmitted to the press or the public. They illustrate both forecasts and a performance target.

On these documents, the Arrow Lake-S processor is also compared to a Raptor Lake-S Refresh processor of 14^e generation which, itself, has not yet come out. The latter incorporates 8 efficient cores and 16 efficient cores, a scheme identical to that of Arrow Lake-S, and the PL1/PL2 settings are quite close, with 3 watts less on Arrow Lake-S.

Where things are less clear is when Intel specifies that the data is ” normalized with respect to Core i9-13900K ”, a CPU that shares the same configuration as the Raptor Lake-S Refresh.

Many benchmarks are then reviewed from Geekbench 5.4.5 to SPECrate 2017, via CrossMark or SYSmark 25. Each time, Raptor Lake Refresh seems to do barely better than Raptor Lake, while Arrow Lake stands out more clearly . For the latter, the differences are between 3 and 21%.

Amusingly enough, it’s the last two bars that give Arrow Lake their best performance. On 3DMark’s TimeSpy stage, the chip can achieve up to 2.4 times the results of a Raptor Lake. Xe-LPG looks set to work miracles.

Source : Igor’s Lab