Detailed information about the upcoming Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPU platform and Z890 motherboards has been released. Further information related to the Intel Arrow Lake-S “Core Ultra 200” Desktop CPUs and the 800-series platform has started coming out.
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The new information has been disseminated by an organization known as Golden Pig Upgrade, which has reported on the SKUs, iGPU configurations, and the flagship Z890 chipset. Therefore, the Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” Desktop CPUs, which are the successor to the Core Ultra 100 “Meteor Lake” family, will be launched with SKUs from the Core Ultra 5. Previously, three presumed “Unlocked” SKUs were described, including the Core Ultra 9 285K, Core Ultra 7 265K, and Core Ultra 5 245K.
The lineup, as a result, does not include the Core Ultra 3 chips. Instead, Intel might keep offering and refreshing existing Core i3 CPUs to fulfil entry-level demand. The entry-level SKUs could receive refreshes of platforms such as the existing LGA 1700, with future chips being the Bartlett Lake-S Desktop.
As per iGPU configuration, Arrow Lake-S Core Ultra 200 Desktop CPUs will include up to 4 Xe-Cores. Desktop chips will have higher clock speeds since they also have higher TDPs. Their performance might be decent, but it seems unlikely they can beat the top AMD Ryzen 8000G APUs.
Insiders leak that the cache will be up to 3 MB L3 per Lion Cove P-Core. The Skymont E-Core cluster includes 4 E-Cores with 3 MB L3 each, so the cache of 24-core top CPUs will amount to 3*12=36 MB, while the 20-core configurations will get 33 MB and 6+8 core – 24 MB.
Finally, the best Intel Z890 motherboards on the market within the 800-series platform claim to natively support Thunderbolt 4, along with numerous improvements, such as fast memory, enabled by Arrow Lake-S The last known thing is that Intel 800-series motherboards will be shown either in a few years, since the information was still extremely fresh, or at Computex 2024.
