A leak we believe to be reliable details the first thirteen processors in the future Nova Lake range for desktop PCs.
While the Arrow Lake generation has enabled Intel to score a few points with, in particular, much better energy efficiency than previous ranges, it's still not enough to regain ground on AMD. Ryzen systems dominate the retail market and are gaining ground in just about every sector. Intel has reason to believe, however, since the next generation, Nova Lake, seems to go much further and enable the American group to correct many of its handicaps in relation to AMD chips. The problem is, these Nova Lake processors are still a long way off: their release is not expected before late-2026 or early-2027.
VideoCardz has obtained a confidential document from Intel © VideoCardz
A distance of several months that leads us to be cautious about the information that follows. The VideoCardz website explains that it has obtained a confidential document from Intel. A document that reveals the first thirteen processors of this Nova Lake-S range. These are chips for our desktop PCs, different from the Nova Lake models that will equip next year's notebooks. Thirteen processors can already be divided into three main families, depending on whether they have a thermal envelope (TDP) of 175 W, 125 W or 65 W.
There are only two 175 W processors. These are the most powerful of the future range: monsters equipped with two compute tiles for a total of 52 or 44 cores, depending on the model. They are backed by a whopping 288 MB of bLLC cache, Intel's answer to AMD's X3D. Alongside these two unreasonable behemoths, we'll be able to count on a bevy of 125W chips, including an appetizing 28-core / 144MB bLLC Core Ultra 9 model. In addition to a few Core Ultra 7s, we'll also have a 22-core Core Ultra 5, admittedly without bLLC, but already interesting, at least on paper. Last but not least, there are some particularly sober 65W models, including a Core Ultra 9 with 22 cores and 144 MB of bLLC cache. A future ultra-efficient racing beast? We'd like to think so...
