There is no doubt that Alder Lake will be a milestone for Intel, and that is why our expectations for this processor are so high. Los de Pat Gelsinger tienen la difícil tarea de hacerle frente a una AMD that con su Zen 3 les está plantando cara y aunque los del logo azul siguen dominando el mercado, no se pueden sleep en los laureles y más con Zen 4 a la vuelta de the corner. One of the most important markets is in laptop processors, where Alder Lake will compete with AMD Rembrandt APUs.
All processors will use, as we know, two types of cores that will work togetherr. On the one hand the powerful consumption, but higher Golden Cove
In addition, it will be the first Intel processors manufactured under the Intel SuperFin 10nm node, at least on desktops, in laptops, this node is already used in its product line Tiger Lake and Tiger Lake-H.
Alder Lake’s entire line of laptops is filtered
Although the first leak was made several weeks ago, the most recent includes new information from Alder Lake for laptops. And it also puts into perspective why Intel killed Lakefield, Ice Lake-U, and Coffe Lake-U. All these processors will therefore be replaced by equivalents with the Alder Lake hybrid architecture.
Alder Lake range for energy efficient laptops and tablets
Intel will launch five different ranges, the first two, which are the least greedy, will focus on very low power systems and therefore specific formats.
- The first is the call M5, that is made of 1 Golden Cove core and 4 Gracemont cores, we are therefore in front of the direct successor of Lakefield, with GPU configurations with 48 or 64 EU depending on the model. These are processors for tablet-like designs and with an average TDP of 5 W.
- The second of them is called U9, so we are already talking about ultra-thin PCs, although with poor performance when configuring 2 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores. All accompanied by a Integrated Intel Ce GPU of 80 or 96 EU.
And finally, the laptops of a lifetime
The ranges U15 and H45 are the classic laptop lines we’ve seen for years, the ultra-thin with a 15W power consumption processor and the high-performance laptop with a 45W TDP. In the middle of the two are 28 W U28 models, a complement to the range. All with 8 Gracemont cores, but with parameters of 2 Golden Cove cores in the case of U15 and 6 or 8 cores in the case of U28 and H45. All accompanied by 80 or 96 EU Intel Xe GPU depending on model.
To finish, another novelty in the range will be in CPUs with 55 W TDP, a new range which will be based on 8-core Golden Cove configurations and BGA packaging. Which means they will be the same CPU as on the desktop, but soldered to the board instead of using the LGA1700 socket. The GPU of these models will be 32 EU, which suggests that the rest of the Alder Lake models will not use integrated GPUs, but initially maybe Intel Xe Iris.