As you know, Intel is preparing to announce the Raptor Lake Refresh and Meteor Lake processors. In this context, while the excited wait continues, details have started to leak from the Arrow Lake-S desktop platform, which will be the sequel to Meteor Lake. In a new report shared today, the cache sizes of the processors have come to light. Let’s take a look at the details together.Cache sizes of Intel Arrow Lake-S processors leaked
For those who don’t know, Intel Arrow Lake-S processors will be based on the LGA 1851 platform, which is expected to be released next year with 800 series motherboards. Previous information has shown us that Arrow Lake will have Lion Cove P-Cores and Skymont E-Cores cores. However, it should be noted that the same microarchitecture has been confirmed for Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake.
Reports shared today say that each P-Core (performance core) to be used in Arrow Lake-S CPUs will carry an additional 1MB of L2 cache and have a total size of 3MB. This represents a 50 percent increase compared to the 2MB per core L2 cache found in Raptor Cove. There is an increase of more than two times in Golden Cove kernels. The L3 cache sizes of the processors will be the same as Raptor Lake.
L2 cache sizes of current and upcoming Intel processors:
- Arrow Lake-S (Lion Cove P-Core) – 3MB L2 Cache per Core (Not released yet)
- Raptor Lake-S (Raptor Cove P-Core) – 2MB L2 Cache per Core
- Alder Lake-S (Golden Cove P-Core) – 1.25MB L2 Cache per Core
Also, recent benchmarks show that Intel Arrow Lake-S Desktop CPUs will offer up to 21 percent performance gain over Raptor Lake. However, it is not yet clear whether the desktop series will continue as the 15th Generation or whether the “Core Ultra” series will become standard. Niketim’s “Core Ultra” name scheme is expected to be used first in Meteor Lake processors.
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