Expectations are high for Intel’s Lunar Lake mobile processors, following the Meteor Lake generation that left many hardware enthusiasts wanting more. Lunar Lake is supposed to finally deliver AI-worthy performance and an integrated GPU that will usher in the Battlemage architecture, with up to 8 Xe2 cores. Early performance rumors are encouraging, even if it’s not enough for Intel to completely catch up with AMD.
But today, we'll be looking beyond Lunar Lake, which is expected to officially launch as a reminder in September 2024. Today's rumor is actually about processors Tiger Lakeexpected at the end of 2025 or the beginning of 2026. In just 48 hours, two organizers of rumors and leaks of all kinds have published consistent “information” about the future processor family, which announces very good things, at least for the GPU part!
Tiger Lake
PTL-U4+0+4+4Xe 15W
BTL-H 4+8+4+12Xe 25 Watt
BTL – H4+8+4+4Xe 25WPictured is the PTL-H 12Xe.
Dies 4, 1, and 5 are compatible with Compute, PCD, and Graphics (Xe3) respectively.
The other two deaths are negative. pic.twitter.com/iiZh5fYDMG– Jaykihn (@jaykihn0) July 15, 2024
Tom from Moore's Law is Dead YouTube channel and @Jaykihn on X.com announce the upcoming flagship phone Tiger Lake-H Intel machines must be equipped with 12 graphics cores. Xe3With every change in architecture from Battlemage to heavenlyMoreover, there is a 50% increase in the number of graphics cores compared to Lunar Lake, which means that we have the right to expect an amazing increase in performance, otherwise the disappointment will be great!
However, it's hard to comment on CPU performance gains. We do know that Panther Lake will use P cores. Cougar Cove Electron nuclei and LPE nuclei Darkmontbut Moore's Law is the only one currently trying to indicate expected performance, with IPCs that could be 5-13% for Cougar Cove, but anecdotal according to him for Darkmont. Our two sources agree that the maximum CPU architecture is 4 P cores + 8 E cores + 4 LPE cores, but Jaykihn adds the precision that would then be for Panther Lake-H models with PL1 at 25W, which would be available in 12 GPU cores but also just 4 GPU cores. There would also be a Tiger Lake-U Low consumption equipped with PL1 with only 15W, which will have 4 P cores, no E cores and 4 LPE cores, but will then only be present in a version equipped with an iGPU with 4 Xe3 cores which already sells in smaller quantities of the processor. Dream…
