Discussion Intel Meteor, Arrow, Lunar & Panther Lakes + WCL Discussion Threads

[Tigerick]

Wildcat Lake (WCL) Specs

Intel Wildcat Lake (WCL) is upcoming mobile SoC replacing Raptor Lake-U. WCL consists of 2 tiles: compute tile and PCD tile. It is true single die consists of CPU, GPU and NPU that is fabbed by 18-A process. Last time I checked, PCD tile is fabbed by TSMC N6 process. They are connected through UCIe, not D2D; a first from Intel. Expecting launching in Q1 2026.

		Intel Raptor Lake U	Intel Wildcat Lake 15W?	Intel Lunar Lake		Intel Panther Lake 4+0+4
Launch Date		Q1-2024	Q2-2026	Q3-2024		Q1-2026
Model		Intel 150U	Intel Core 7	Core Ultra 7 268V		Core Ultra 7 365
Dies		2	2	2		3
Node		Intel 7 + ?	Intel 18-A + TSMC N6	TSMC N3B + N6		Intel 18-A + Intel 3 + TSMC N6
CPU		2 P-core + 8 E-cores	2 P-core + 4 LP E-cores	4 P-core + 4 LP E-cores		4 P-core + 4 LP E-cores
Threads		12	6	8		8
Max Clock		5.4 GHz	?	5 GHz		4.8 GHz
L3 Cache		12 MB		12 MB		12 MB
TDP		15 - 55 W	15 W ?	17 - 37 W		25 - 55 W
Memory		128-bit LPDDR5-5200	64-bit LPDDR5	128-bit LPDDR5x-8533		128-bit LPDDR5x-7467
Size		96 GB		32 GB		128 GB
Bandwidth				136 GB/s
GPU		Intel Graphics	Intel Graphics	Arc 140V		Intel Graphics
RT		No	No	YES		YES
EU / Xe		96 EU	2 Xe	8 Xe		4 Xe
Max Clock		1.3 GHz	?	2 GHz		2.5 GHz
NPU		GNA 3.0	18 TOPS	48 TOPS		49 TOPS

As Hot Chips 34 starting this week, Intel will unveil technical information of upcoming Meteor Lake (MTL) and Arrow Lake (ARL), new generation platform after Raptor Lake. Both MTL and ARL represent new direction which Intel will move to multiple chiplets and combine as one SoC platform.

MTL also represents new compute tile that based on Intel 4 process which is based on EUV lithography, a first from Intel. Intel expects to ship MTL mobile SoC in 2023.

ARL will come after MTL so Intel should be shipping it in 2024, that is what Intel roadmap is telling us. ARL compute tile will be manufactured by Intel 20A process, a first from Intel to use GAA transistors called RibbonFET.

 

[Schmide]

100 Celcius = 212 Fahrenheit.

So you don't understand metric. American right?

That's the joke you gleamed from that ?

 

[SiliconFly]

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[dullard]

ARL desktop is getting a massive node jump. From Intel 7 to 20A. Thats more than a 2X node jump. ARL is gonna be a lot more power efficient than the RPL generations. 50% to 60% efficiency gains just from the node jump alone clock-for-clock. Architectural efficiency gains are extra.

Seems like you didn't get the memo. When Intel is on an older, less efficient node, we are to ignore single thread performance and complain about power & efficiency. When Intel moves to a newer, more efficient node, we are to ignore power & efficiency and complain that it might not match previous single thread performance.

 

[SiliconFly]

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[Elfear]

Seems like you didn't get the memo. When Intel is on an older, less efficient node, we are to ignore single thread performance and complain about power & efficiency. When Intel moves to a newer, more efficient node, we are to ignore power & efficiency and complain that it might not match previous single thread performance.

I mean I get your sarcasm, some people will complain no matter what. For the past couple gens, Intel has had great performance (at least on desktop) but efficiency has been rather subpar. So if ARL-S brings major efficiency gains, that will be excellent.

I think the sentiments about ARL-S being a dud or "meh" stem from the rumors of overall performance not going up much. Kind of like the reaction to RDNA3. It brought efficiency but not much on the performance front. Enthusiasts want to see longer bar graphs in reviews!

 

[FlameTail]

Perhaps we should be using curves instead of bar graphs

 

[dullard]

I mean I get your sarcasm, some people will complain no matter what. For the past couple gens, Intel has had great performance (at least on desktop) but efficiency has been rather subpar. So if ARL-S brings major efficiency gains, that will be excellent.

I think the sentiments about ARL-S being a dud or "meh" stem from the rumors of overall performance not going up much. Kind of like the reaction to RDNA3. It brought efficiency but not much on the performance front. Enthusiasts want to see longer bar graphs in reviews!

Yes it was sarcasm, pointed at the recent discussion (split between this thread and the foundry node thread) about a 2% drop in ST performance on one 7-Zip benchmark comparing a laptop Meteor Lake to a SFF desktop Raptor Lake.

Both efficiency and performance are important. It does seem like Arrow Lake (at least at first) is focusing on efficiency more than pure performance. Nothing wrong with that. Intel is addressing their biggest weakness.

I'm personally disappointed that they aren't (yet) taking the area savings and adding more cores, so we would get significant efficiency and MT performance gains. I wouldn't call it a dud. I personally think most chips released in the past few years (from all companies) are good chips.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I'm personally disappointed that they aren't (yet) taking the area savings and adding more cores, so we would get significant efficiency and MT performance gains.

I don't think Intel would ever do that unless AMD forces their hand. We would still be getting max 10C/20T CPUs for consumer platforms and having to pay the HEDT tax for more cores if it weren't for AM4/AM5. They just want to churn out as many small dies as they can out of a wafer and increase their bottom line. And they keep shifting the goal posts. Developers were just getting used to the idea of an individual having access to 32 threads but then they threw a kink in that with high perf threads and efficency threads so it's an additional headache for developers to squeeze the maximum performance out of Intel CPUs but they have to do that coz that's where the volume is. AMD finally brought AVX-512 to the average person but then Intel bailed out and they are gonna have their new AVX10 spec which is surely going to try to sabotage AMD's AVX512 performance in one way or the other.

 

[SiliconFly]

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[SiliconFly]

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[igor_kavinski]

I hope that this year, both Zen 5 and ARL go for baseline DDR5-6400 stock RAM config. Absolutely hated the reviews where they decided to test stock performance with Intel@DDR5-5600 and AMD@DDR5-5200. That's like comparing two race cars with one of them having an inferior quality tire brand.

 

[H433x0n]

Seems like you didn't get the memo. When Intel is on an older, less efficient node, we are to ignore single thread performance and complain about power & efficiency. When Intel moves to a newer, more efficient node, we are to ignore power & efficiency and complain that it might not match previous single thread performance.

You’re being sarcastic but I’m 99% sure this is what’s going to happen in 6 months. Everybody will determine that 1T performance is the most important metric for a client CPU (which to me it already is, IMO). Being power efficient will fall out of style once they’re at relative parity. Techtubers will give lip service to power efficiency and then dedicate their time to talk about how ARL is unusable because it’s 10% behind in 1T performance.

 

[gdansk]

1T is all that matters for client since 8 cores became ubiquitous. But AMD has magic cache that makes -10% 1T not matter for the most common case where you'd complain about being behind (gaming).
There will be no change in priorities but if Zen 5 does put AMD ahead in 1T even without stacked cache then what hope is there for Intel?

Anyway...

 

[igor_kavinski]

what hope is there for Intel?

No hope in tech circles but the common man basically worships Intel coz that's what 9 out of 10 people around him gush about. Intel will still sell millions of CPUs. The secretary or the clerk isn't suddenly gonna go to their IT and demand AMD because of some MS OFFICE benchmark they saw online.

 

[Markfw]

where i

Actually, a simple line graph is usually sufficient. Intel client *still* has 82% market share (desktop + laptop) in spite of Zen4 competition as of today. Amd only has 18% market share and I'd actually like to know which is the best selling Ryzen cpu in that remaining 18%... cos, the rest don't seem to be worth their development cost. Is amd wasting money on parts that aren't selling? Perhaps they should invest more on stuff that sells.

Where is that graph sourced ? Considering performance of both parties over this timeline, that insane shift in one month seems wrong. I think the reporting or something changed, and is wrong.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Where is that graph sourced ? Considering performance of both parties over this timeline, that insane shift in one month seems wrong. I think the reporting or something changed, and is wrong.

Yeah. And it can't be accurate. Possibly from a limited group of retailers in one geographic region or from some analyst firm who might actually be paid under the table by Intel. Gotta have the fine print enlarged to understand how they arrived at those figures.

 

[poke01]

No hope in tech circles but the common man basically worships Intel coz that's what 9 out of 10 people around him gush about. Intel will still sell millions of CPUs. The secretary or the clerk isn't suddenly gonna go to their IT and demand AMD because of some MS OFFICE benchmark they saw online.

This isn’t true anymore. AMD is king in CPUs and mindshare is now better than Intels.

 

[FlameTail]

This isn’t true anymore. AMD is king in CPUs and mindshare is now better than Intels.

How will things shape up for Qualcomm? Can we get a third wheel?

Or a fourth wheel too? (Nvidia)

 

[igor_kavinski]

AMD is king in CPUs and mindshare is now better than Intels.

Not in a lot of places outside the US.

My current strategy to making people believe that AMD is not some small company is to make them do a google search for AMD market cap and then compare with Intel's. They are usually taken aback but I can see behind their faces that it still didn't fully convince them. And these are usually people who don't give much credence to benchmarks.

On a side note, buy INTEL! You might get rich when their stock price starts climbing

 

[FlameTail]

Hmm

 

[Hitman928]

where i

Where is that graph sourced ? Considering performance of both parties over this timeline, that insane shift in one month seems wrong. I think the reporting or something changed, and is wrong.

It's Puget Systems customer orders. Basically market share from a boutique builder of workstation systems. It is an extremely small part of the market overall.

 

[SiliconFly]

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[SiliconFly]

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[Schmide]

The real girth of those numbers is edge computing. intel rules this space

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Nope. AMD mind share in only among personal PC builders, gamers and enthusiasts that too in very specific parts of the world. A very tiny market. Majority of the office and homes around the world still prefer Intel.

Correct. Intel still dominates the mainstream PC pre-built markets. Especially laptops and notebooks.