Intel Meteor Lake “Core Ultra 9” processors expected to run at up to 5 GHz, Arc Xe-LPG GPU at up to 2.2 GHz

Intel’s upcoming Meteor Lake processors are expected to feature an all-new iGPU based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG IP. It is also expected that this GPU will be an important component of the chip and will have excellent graphics and computing capabilities compared to the previous generation Iris Xe chips. According to the information provided by Golden Pig Upgrade, the Intel Meteor Lake “Core Ultra 9” CPUs, which will be the top chips within the 1st Gen Core Ultra series, will offer quite solid clock speeds after all. Compared to the existing chips, which can reach up to 5.4 GHz, this is not groundbreaking, but considering that this is the first generation of chips on a new processor core, the colocated 5.0 GHz is quite acceptable.

EV QS cTDP 20-65W 6P 8E 2LPE Up to 4.8 GHz 128EU Up to 2.2 GHz Ultra 9 is expected to go to 5GHz, there are still a few months, good luck

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The leaker has received an EV QS sample with a configurable TDP between 20 and 65 watts. This chip would come in the top configuration in a 6 8 2LPE package. This includes 6 performance cores based on the Redwood Cove architecture, 8 efficiency cores based on the Crestmont architecture, and 2 additional Crestmont cores placed in the SOC tile. This would result in a configuration with 20 cores and 22 threads. This would be roughly the same configuration seen at Computex 2023 with 1.6 MB L1, 18 MB L2, and 24 MB L3 cache.

As for the iGPU, it is reported that Intel will rely on its Arc Alchemist graphics architecture in its Xe-LPG variant. This chip would feature a total of 128 EUs in the GPU, which uses TSMC’s 5nm process node, while the CPU processing core would use Intel’s 4nm process node. It is reported that the iGPU could be clocked at up to 2.2 GHz, which would be a slight increase from the 2.1 GHz seen in an earlier ES chip.

This would put the chip’s FP32 computing power at about 4.5 TFLOPs. That would be a 2.25x increase in processing power over the Iris Xe 96 EU graphics found in the Raptor Lake H CPUs. A comparison with AMD’s RDNA GPUs would not be possible, as they have a different architecture and calculate FP32 TFLOPs differently. However, it looks like Intel could have a big lead over AMD’s Radeon 700M “RDNA 3” iGPUs. The manufacturers would already talk about a performance of up to RTX 3050 for this iGPU.

Intel Meteor Lake Mobility CPU Lineup Expected Features:

• Triple-Hybrid CPU Architecture (P/E/LP-E Cores)
• Brand New Redwood Cove (P-Cores)
• Brand New Crestmont (E-Cores)
• Up To 14 Cores (6 8) For H/P Series & Up To 12 Cores (4 8) For U Series CPUs
• Intel 4 Process Node For CPU, TSMC For tGPU
• Intel ‘Xe-MTL’ GPU With Up To 192/128 EUs
• Up To LPDDR5X-7467 & DDR5-5200 Support
• Up To 96 GB DDR5 & 64 GB LPDDR5X Capacities
• Intel VPU For AI Inferencing With Atom Cores
• x8 Gen 5 Lanes For Discrete GPU (Only H-Series)
• Triple x4 M.2 Gen 4 SSD Support
• Four Thunderbolt 4 Ports

In their recent earnings release, Intel confirmed that the company intends to ramp up production of their Meteor Lake CPUs in the second half of 2023, likely in October or November. Therefore, more news can be expected later this year.

Intel Mobility CPU Lineup:

Source: WccfTech