The 14e generation of processors Intel is slowly getting closer to us and, with it, new amazing promises.
If it had a bit complicated years 2017-2021, the company Intel seems today to be in very good shape, and the generations of processors follow each other at a steady pace with quite notable advances.
Much better energy efficiency
Relayed by our colleagues from TechPowerUp, the latest information has not been confirmed by Intel. The source, @OneRaichu, is however used to this kind of leaks. So we should be able to trust him.
According to his information, the 14e generation of Intel processors, the Meteor Lake, should be accompanied by a very marked increase in energy efficiency. Nothing surprising in that, either for CPUs or for GPUs, Intel recently decided to make it its workhorse.
Compared to the Raptor Lake architecture, the Meteor Lake design could provide an energy efficiency gain of around 50%. We are talking here about CPUs with the same number of high-performance and efficient cores, but remember that Meteor Lake will integrate Redwood Cove / Crestmont.
Big changes on the iGPU
While Raptor Lake relies on Raptor Cove/Gracemont cores, the change should significantly improve performance per Watt. The efficiency gain is like saying that to get the same performance as Raptor Lake, Meteor Lake only needs half of its energy.
Good news never comes alone, @OneRaichu also has information about the iGPU, the graphics solution integrated into the CPU. Thus, Meteor Lake should be accompanied by 128 execution units at more than 2 GHz, which must be compared to “only” 96 UEs of Raptor Lake.
Remember here that Meteor Lake should be an opportunity for Intel to replace the Iris iGPU with the Xe-LPG “Xe-MTL” family. While the CPU part will be etched using the Intel 4 process, the GPU part relies on TSMC’s 5nm, but should still result in much better graphics performance.
Source : TechPowerUp
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