From ExtremeTech: Intel has officially unveiled its long-awaited Arrow Lake platform, the Core Ultra 200 series of desktop CPUs. This is the successor to Raptor Lake and the first tile-based family of desktop CPUs from Intel on a new LGA 1851 socket, as well as the first CPUs made by TSMC on its 3nm process. This will be Intel's weapon in its battle against AMD's Zen 5 CPUs and is the company's next-generation platform to carry it into the "AI PC" era.
Intel is announcing three new CPUs: the Core Ultra 285K, Core Ultra 265K/KF, and the 245K/KF. You can see all the specs below, but the big new feature with Arrow Lake is a focus on efficiency. The company appears to have designed Arrow Lake to rid itself of the reputation it's garnered over the years for CPUs that run hot and require a lot of power. Intel says Arrow Lake provides the same gaming performance as Raptor Lake at half the power, which is quite a claim. It's also saying it runs 16C cooler in gaming.
The company says it has reduced power not just in gaming but in compute tasks as well. Power consumption in lightly threaded workloads has been reduced by 58% compared with Raptor Lake refresh. It also says it performs similarly in multi-threaded workloads as Raptor Lake but at half the power. That doesn't mean performance for Arrow Lake is the same as Raptor Lake, though, as it's also saying it's 8% faster than Raptor Lake in single-threaded benchmarks and 15% faster in multi-threaded workloads. However, it's unclear what TDPs are involved in those numbers.
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