Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs will have a few crucial advantages over the current Meteor Lake range of chips. These details were shared at Hot Chips and Intel’s Tech Day computations for Computex 2024 but the Lunar Lake CPUs will have latency improvements of three times better as well as bandwidth improvement over Meteor Lake. The release date for those CPUs is September 3.
Intel Lunar Lake CPUs With Better Performance
Lunar Lake includes a CPU architecture with two different types of cores: P-Cores and E-Cores, where the Lion Cove being used is a performance core while Skymont is modeled around efficiency. Unlike Meteor Lake which was a three-core setup with the P-Cores and LP-E cores being distributed across different tile, Lunar Lake separates them to be located on their respective tiles. This separation will help solve the latency problem in Meteor Lake, where tile-to-tile communication typically has higher latencies.
On the “Load to Use Latency In Memory” tests, we have seen very good improvements in latency with Lunar Lake CPUs as a P-Core has lower latencies at various buffer sizes. Elsewhere, LP-E cores exhibit comparable latency up to 32 KB although Lunar Lake excels Meteor Lake with noticeably lower latency and vastly superior bandwidth at larger buffer sizes, improving by as much as 150%.
Intel claims low-power core bandwidth is up 2.8x over Meteor Lake, with the company making reference to more than 128 GB/s of cMemory bandwidth for Lunar Lake CPUs compared to slightly more than 64 GB/s in Meteor Lake chips This enhanced bandwidth and lower latency contribute to a 3x improvement in latency coherency for P-Cores and LP-E cores.
Other notable improvements with Lunar Lake include over twice the performance per watt in productivity tasks, more than three times the AI throughput across the NPU, GPU, and CPU, up to a 50% boost in graphics performance, and up to 40% reduced power consumption, which benefits mobile users. Expect further details on Lunar Lake as Intel prepares for its official launch next month.
FAQs
When will Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs be released?
Lunar Lake CPUs are set to launch on September 3.
How much better is the latency of Lunar Lake CPUs compared to Meteor Lake?
Lunar Lake CPUs offer up to 3x better latency compared to Meteor Lake CPUs.
