A brand new Intel doc leak has surfaced, which seems to verify {that a} new Intel gaming CPU is within the works with 12 P-Cores and no E-Cores. As it is the P-Cores (the place the P stands for “efficiency”) which can be crucial ones for gaming in relation to Intel CPUs, that might probably make this new Intel CPU an excellent stronger gaming chip than the mighty Core i9 14900K.
The latter CPU solely has eight P-Cores, with 16 lower-power E-Cores (the place E stands for “effectivity”) pushing up the entire to 24. Nevertheless, it is the eight P-Cores that make the Core i9 14900K the corporate’s finest gaming CPU, particularly with their sky-high turbo clock velocity of as much as 6GHz. As such, whereas this new Intel CPU seems to solely have 12 cores, it seems prefer it could possibly be a significantly better possibility for gaming than Intel’s chips with many cores, assuming the clock velocity is excessive sufficient.
The brand new CPU is listed as a part of the brand new vary of chips codenamed Bartlett Lake S. We have heard Intel Bartlett Lake rumors earlier than, together with hypothesis that they are probably to make use of the identical LGA1700 motherboard socket as Intel 12-14th gen CPUs, probably making for a straightforward improve path in case you already personal the most effective gaming motherboards utilizing this platform. Nevertheless, that is the primary time we have seen them listed in what seems like an official Intel doc, which states that the brand new CPUs will use the identical Core Collection 2 branding as present Intel Arrow Lake CPUs.
The brand new CPU apparently appeared in a (now deleted) Intel presentation slide, as detailed in a put up on X (previously Twitter) by InstLatX64, who shared a screengrab of it earlier than it was taken down, with tech web site Wccftech later grabbing a full model of the slide. The slide seems to verify a number of forthcoming Intel merchandise, together with Nova Lake S for the desktop. Nevertheless, it is the Bartlett Lake-S CPUs which can be of curiosity right here.
The presentation additionally clearly features a “Bartlett Lake S 12P”, the place the S normally stands for socketed desktop CPUs in Intel’s branding, and the 12P seems prefer it refers back to the CPU having 12 P-Cores.
There are a few bizarre anomalies with this screenshot, although. One is that the revision date on the backside reads 6 September 2024, whereas the now-missing presentation is dated as being launched in Might 2025.
A footnote on the slide additionally notes that “the data above just isn’t an official POR doc and could also be totally different from different Intel divisions with comparable merchandise.” We won’t take this slide as an official reveal by Intel, unintentional or not, however the truth that it has been screenshotted by a number of sources suggests it was genuinely up on the Intel web site.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not Intel does certainly have an excellent gaming CPU with 12 P-Cores in improvement, and whether or not it’s going to have first rate clock speeds or not, however Intel definitely do with some assistance on the gaming entrance. Not solely did Intel’s 14th-gen and Thirteenth-gen CPUs endure from a great deal of stability issues over the previous couple of months, requiring a raft of Intel microcode updates, however AMD’s new eight-core X3D CPU additionally outperforms the most recent Intel Arrow Lake CPUs in video games, as we present in my AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D overview.
Within the meantime, take a look at my CPU set up information in case you’re trying to improve your processor within the close to future, in addition to our information on methods to apply thermal paste.
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