Details of Intel's next generation of Arrow Lake desktop processors for gamers and content creators are starting to trickle through the rumor mill and the latest is yet more information that points to the successor to its current 14th Gen models not gaining any extra cores, instead sticking with 24 cores on the flagship model - the Core Ultra 9 285K.
The difference for both AMD and Intel, though, is that they are launching new architectures and also shrinking the manufacturing process that builds them. The former will see a boost in instructions per cycle or IPC, which means that clock-for-clock a newer, more efficient architecture will be faster. This is why for the moment, the lack of core count increases may not matter, because even without them the newer CPUs will be faster in general.
However, perhaps an even bigger question is whether or not Intel has ditched hyper-threading. Allowing each core to access two lines of code and performing work on separate 'threads', Intel and AMD CPUs have included some form of hyper-threading for years and it can massively boost multi-threaded workload performance by allowing cores to work on two threads of code at the same time to fill in any idle moments.
Meanwhile, we do know that the new Arrow Lake-S CPUs will require a new processor socket and that means new motherboards, although existing coolers are expected to be compatible. The dual compatibility with DDR5 and DDR4 memory will come to an end with the older DDR4 memory no longer being supported. We'll know more later in 2024, with AMD expected to break cover with details of its plans for the second half of 2024 at the Computex trade show in Taiwan in June.
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