Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop processors are rumoured to be launching within the coming months, however with regards to an official date or official specs, we’re nonetheless none the wiser. Nonetheless, listings have been noticed for the brand new CPUs on a UK retailer’s web site—and whereas they’re placeholders for now, they do present core counts and increase clocks that appear affordable when in comparison with the present line up of Raptor Lake Refresh chips.
Core Extremely 9 285K – 24 cores, 5.7GHz – £566.20Core Extremely 7 265K – 20 cores, 5.5 GHz – £392.82Core Extremely 7 265KF – 20 cores, 5.5 GHz – £377.52Core Extremely 5 245K – 14 cores, 5.2 GHz – £301.03Core Extremely 5 245KF – 14 cores, 5.2 GHz – £285.73
The processors are listed beneath the Extremely branding on Lambdatek, a UK digital retailer—with the costliest of the lot being the Core Extremely 9 285K at a contact over £566, which works out to round $727 on the present alternate price (through Videocardz). It is stated to be a 24-core chip operating at 5.7 GHz, which might give it the identical variety of cores as the present Core i9 14900K, with a barely decrease increase clock.
Under which can be the Core Extremely 7 265K and the Core Extremely 7 265KF, each 20-core chips with 5.5 GHz increase clocks, at £378 and £393. That’d be round $485 and $505 respectively, and sure the equal of the present Core i7 14700K and KF variant, additionally with 20 cores general and an ever-so-slightly quicker increase clock of 5.6 GHz.
Mentioning the rear are two Core Extremely 5 chips, the 245K and 245KF, with 14 cores à la the Core i5 14600K and Core i5 14600KF, though once more with a barely slower increase clock at 5.2 GHz. These are listed at £301 and £285 respectively, or roughly $387 and $366.
The costs, together with nearly every part else right here, are greatest taken with a big dose of salt. Retailers put placeholders up on a regular basis, and so they’re on no account an official affirmation of any data. Nonetheless, with the launch rumoured to be considerably shut, these listings seem to be an inexpensive indication of what the Arrow Lake lineup may appear to be after we lastly get some official phrase.
When it comes to precise, verified details about Arrow Lake from Intel itself, we nonetheless have little or no. We all know that the brand new processors can be constructed primarily by TSMC, with packaging by Intel Foundry, within the midst of the information that Intel can be dropping its 20A course of in favour of 18A.
We additionally know that they supposedly will not have the identical voltage stability points which were plaguing Intel’s thirteenth and 14th-generation processors. Past that, we’re nonetheless primarily within the land of hearsay and hypothesis, together with speak of Intel abandoning hyperthreading and considerably altering its chip layouts.
Given Intel’s well-publicised points in latest months, one factor we could be certain of is that Intel can be hoping that Arrow Lake is a hit. After dismal monetary outcomes, the aforementioned crashing points, and rumours that the corporate could also be contemplating chopping bits of itself off to be able to flip issues round, it will doubtless be in search of these chips to trigger a little bit of a stir within the face of AMD’s strong—if barely underwhelming—Zen 5 CPUs.