New rumors have emerged regarding the new processor family that Intel could launch in October. The new information indicates that the Arrow Lake-S chip line, commercially known as Ultra 200 Core recover the Core 3 to scam hybrid design. Concretely, these new chips will present power cores and cores of efficiencydoubling the number of cores compared to previous generations.
As you may know, the company has been marketing Core series chips with heterogeneous cores or hybrid designs for a few years now. They are characterized by the inclusion of power cores (P-Cores) and efficiency cores (E-Cores).
P-Cores are the “conventional” ones meant for heavy-duty tasks like running games, editing software, etc. E-Cores are “simpler” cores that aim to deliver high throughput, rather than great performance. They focus on everyday tasks like browsing, office work, multimedia, and similar light tasks.
Intel to launch new Core 3 with hybrid architecture
It is important to know that the 13th and 14th generation Core chips only use power cores. The configuration of these chips is based only on 4 power cores without efficiency cores. They are positioned as an excellent solution, but Intel wants these chips to also use the hybrid design.
According to the rumor that has just been revealed, the Arrow Lake family would move to Core Ultra 3 processors with hybrid architecture. They point out that these processors will have a total of 8 cores, twice as many as the 12th and 13th generation equivalents. What is not known is the distribution of the cores that will be carried out.
The leak highlights that two models will be launched, the Core Ultra 3 205 And Core Ultra 3 215both with a number of 8 cores. Logically, the difference between these chips will be on the frequencies and, possibly, on the cache. Note that the Core i3-10100 and Core i3-10300 have the same number of cores but different frequencies and caches.
They point out that these new Core Ultra 3 could have a configuration of 4 P cores and 4 E coresfor a total of eight cores. From what they point out, the configuration of 2 P-Cores and 6 E-Cores could not be viable. The reason is that E-Cores chip clusters are not divisible, at least in principle. It is possible that Intel has modified the design of the Skymont (named E-Cores architecture) although there is no data at the moment.
Similarly, it is pointed out that the L2 cache of the P-Cores and E-Cores clusters could be lower in quantity than that of the Core Ultra 5 models. This has happened before, just look at the Core Ultra 200V Lunar. Lake . The P-Cores of these chips have 2.5 MB of L2 cache per core, but the Core Ultra 9 285K has 3 MB of L2 cache per core.
Probably, thanks to this 4+4 core configuration, we will see a solution with quite good performance. Now, what we need to know is the price of these chips, which can clearly make a difference. Perhaps it is the return of the “Core i3”, an entry-level solution quite forgotten by Intel in recent years.
