Intel already launched the Core Ultra 200V (codenamed Lunar Lake) processors for laptops. Today, Intel announces the desktop counterpart: the Core Ultra 200S (codenamed Arrow Lake-S) processors.
Here is a summary of the new features brought by Arrow Lake-S processors:
- Launch date: October 24, 2024
- Five new SKUs:
- Core Ultra 9 285K (with iGPU): 24 cores (8P+16E)
- Core Ultra 7 265K (with iGPU): 20 cores (8P+12E)
- Core Ultra 7 265KF (no iGPU): 20 cores (8P+12E)
- Core Ultra 5 245K (with iGPU): 14 cores (6P+8E)
- Core Ultra 5 245KF (no iGPU): 14 cores (6P+8E)
- Performance cores: Lion Cove P-core
- Efficient cores: Skymont E-core
- new socket: LGA1851 leading to a new motherboard!
- new motherboard chipset: Z890 (800 Series).
- base power: 125W
- boost power: up to 250W for 285K, 265K/265KF and up to 159W for 245K/245KF.
- new manufacturing process: 3nm for compute cores and 6nm the other parts of the SoC.
- less power consumption than Raptor Lake processors (like the 14900K) under same conditions.
- iGPU: simply named as Intel Graphics (looks like naming is a difficult task today…) based on the Xe-LPG graphics architecture (it’s an Arc GPU like Lunar Lake) with 4 Xe cores (8 Vector Engines per Xe core; 16 ALUs per Vector Engine => 512 ALUs for the iGPU) and 4 ray tracing units.
- NPU (Neural Processing Unit) for AI acceleration (helped by the Xe Graphics iGPU)
Now some marketing slides:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/download/794734/intel-npu-driver-windows.html
“Added Arrow Lake. The name displayed for the NPU device in Microsoft Windows
Device Manager and Task Manager is aligned with the NPU brand name: Intel AI Boost.”
Intel NPU driver 32.0.100.3053 with Arrow Lake NPU support.