Intel's upcoming hybrid desktop CPU Alder Lake was recently spotted on the SiSoft Sandra benchmarking database and it revealed that the processor is a 16 core, 32 thread part with eight big and eight small cores.
The benchmark listing was discovered by prolific insider Tum_Apisak. Aside from the features mentioned earlier, the Alder Lake ships with also 30MB of L3 cache and 10x 1.25MB L2. Intel's Alder Lake is designed for the mobility market and should deliver mundane tasks and performance of big cores and power efficiency of small cores.
The Intel Alder Lake chips are anticipated to arrive after the release of Rocket Lake CPU series. A leaked Intel roadmap claimed that the Rocket Lake could arrive in March 2021, which means the hybrid desktop processors could launch in the second quarter of 2021. Interestingly, the chip is expected to ship with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support.
Alder Lake's small cores are allegedly called Gracemont while the big cores, which are the successor of Willow Cove, are called Golden Cove. Additionally, the upcoming Intel chip is listed with a clock speed of 1.4 GHz, probably for its Gracemont cores. The CPU's iGPU features 256 shader cores at 1.15 GHz.
It is believed that it would be Intel's Xe LP graphics engine. It is the same engine that gamers saw running "Battlefield V" at 30 fps on a laptop earlier this year. The CPU is anticipated to be built on the 10nm SuperFin process paired with Sabrent Rocket 4.0 NVMe. With PCIe 5.0 support, it is likely that the processor will deliver blistering fast drives.
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(16C 32T 1.38GHz, 10x 1.25MB L2, 30MB L3)https://t.co/bNosaT4eNG pic.twitter.com/KgPOolRRQS — APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) October 6, 2020
The benchmark listing also revealed the Alder Lake P, which could mean Atom Server series. Servers with highly dynamic workload could benefit from this technology since it would make scaling between light and heavy workloads more power-efficient. Aside from this, there is also an Alder Lake M listed in the benchmark.
This processor could be in development and would likely be Intel's mobility CPU series. This is one of the highly anticipated processors by industry watchers. It reportedly features light cores that could enable Intel to prolong the battery life of laptops.
It is worth mentioning that while these specs and features about Intel's 12th generation Alder Lake CPUs are interesting, these are not official. As to this, it is smarter to take this information with a pinch of salt.
