And six times more than the CPUs of the four generations before them
In the next couple of months, Intel will release Raptor Lake Refresh desktop processors, which, according to all the leaks, for the most part will bring only a slight increase in frequencies relative to conventional Raptor Lake, which is why the performance gain will be meager. However, with the release of Arrow Lake next year, Intel should again return to a significant increase within a single generation. And in this new CPU, among other things, a significantly increased amount of cache memory will help.
Intel will not please this year, but it will please next year.
According to recent data, large Arrow Lake CPU cores will receive 3 MB of L3 cache. For comparison, Raptor Lake has 2 MB per large core, and Adler Lake has 1.25 MB per core. That is, the amount of cache memory of a large cluster in Arrow Lake, compared even with Raptro Lake, while maintaining the number of cores, will increase by 50%, up to 24 MB. And within a few years, we are talking about an increase of six times in four generations.
As the AMD Ryzen X3D CPUs show, the extra cache makes a huge difference in gaming performance.
Recall, Arrow Lake are expected next year. They will move to the Intel 20A process technology, Lion Cove large cores, and Skymont small cores. Such processors will be LGA 1851, like the canceled Meteor Lake .
Until even the Raptor Lake Refresh comes out, 12th Gen Core processors are on sale at incredible discounts .
The information was shared by the Golden Pig Upgrade Pack insider, who at one time shared Intel CPU performance leaks of different generations and published Intel slides describing these very Meteor Lake CPUs.
