2023-07-10 13:16:00
Intel is preparing to launch the “Raptor Lake Refresh” processors, which will be presented as the 14th generation of the Core family, although it will only be an incremental improvement of the 13th generation “Raptor Lake” line. On Sunday (09), the alleged details of these chips were disclosed in a publication by the leaker Golden Pig Upgrade.
The informant believes that the new processors of the “HX” line — aimed at high-performance notebooks — will have an increase in L2 cache. Intel seems to have adopted a new manufacturing strategy that would allow it to offer the largest on-board memory capacity of the most advanced models in more basic and accessible variants.
In semiconductor production, it is common for manufacturers to design only a few models of chips to develop a product line, allowing defective units to be reused in the form of other products.
To exemplify, NVIDIA’s AD104 GPU powers the GeForce RTX 4080 and GeForce RTX 4070, however, the latter has disabled cores — that is, the defective cores are disabled by default at the factory — to configure it as a cheaper product, avoiding the waste of chips and raw material.
With that, Intel will supposedly stop manufacturing chips from the “HX” line in the configurations of 8 + 8 (8 high performance cores + 8 low consumption cores) and 6 + 0 (6 high performance cores), manufacturing only the matrices of 8 + 16, used in the most powerful processors of the line and have greater cache capacity in the CPU.
O Core i5 and Core i7 will be the models benefiting from the change in strategy from Intel. The Intel Core i7-14650HX must have an 8 + 8 configuration (using the 8 + 16 matrix, but with 8 low power cores disabled). This means that the supposed model would have 20% more threads than its predecessor, the Core i7-13650HX
The Core i7-14700HX should now have 8 + 12 cores, as well as the Core i7-14850HX. The Core i5-14500HX, in turn, should have 6 + 8 cores. All models should benefit from greater L2 cache capabilities, possibly looking to compete with AMD’s Infinity Cache technology.
Finally, the Golden Pig Upgrade claims that the 14th Gen “HX” line Core i9 models will have core specs similar to the 13th Gen, but with Up to 200 MHz clock boostwhich can guarantee a slight increase in performance (and energy consumption) compared to current generation models.
In addition to the 14th generation Core, for this year, Intel is also preparing the launch of the “Meteor Lake” line, which will mark the transition to the new “Intel 4” lithography and the “Core Ultra” nomenclature. For now, the specific release dates are still unknown.
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