Intel's upcoming Meteor Lake CPUs will be featuring a brand new iGPU based on the Arc Alchemist Xe-LPG IP. This GPU is expected to be a major component of the chip and feature great graphics & compute capabilities over the previous generation Iris Xe chips.
Intel Meteor Lake "Core Ultra 9" CPUs Detailed: Up To 5 GHz CPU Clocks, 2.2 GHz Arc Xe-LPG GPU Clocks, 16-Core SKUs Between 20-65W
As per information revealed by Golden Pig Upgrade, the Intel Meteor Lake "Core Ultra 9" CPUs that will be the top chips within the 1st Gen Core Ultra lineup will be offering some decent clock speeds. They will be nothing groundbreaking compared to existing chips which can boost up to 5.4 GHz but considering that these are the first generation chips on a new process node, they will still run at 5.0 GHz clocks.
EV QS cTDP 20-65W 6P+8E+2LPE Up to 4.8 GHz 128EU Up to 2.2 GHz Ultra 9 is expected to go to 5GHz, there are still a few months, good luck
Golden Pig Upgrade via Bilibili (Machine Translated)
So starting with the details, the leaker has acquired details from an EV QS sample that features a configurable TDP between 20 to 65 Watts. This chip comes in the top configuration in a 6+8+2LPE package. These include 6 Performance cores based on the Redwood Cove architecture, 8 Efficiency cores based on the Crestmont architecture, and 2 additional Crestmont Cores that will be found in the SOC tile. This forms a 20-core and 22-thread configuration. This is pretty much the same config we saw at Computex 2023 with 1.6 MB of L1, 18 MB of L2, and 24 MB of L3 cache.
Moving over to the iGPU side, we know that Intel will be leveraging from its Arc Alchemist graphics architecture in its Xe-LPG variation. This chip will pack a total of 128 EUs within the GPU title which utilizes TSMC's 5nm process node while the CPU compute tile will be utilizing Intel 4 process node. It is reported that the iGPU can clock up to 2.2 GHz which is a slight boost over the 2.1 GHz we saw with a previous leaked ES chip.
This should put the FP32 compute performance of the chip around 4.5 TFLOPs. This is a 2.25x increase in compute power over the Iris Xe 96 EU graphics found on the Raptor Lake-H CPUs. Comparison cannot be made with AMD's RDNA GPUs since they have a different architecture & also compute the FP32 TFLOPs differently but it looks like that Intel may take a lead over AMD's Radeon 700M "RDNA 3" iGPUs by a fair amount. Manufacturers have already cited up to RTX 3050 performance out of this iGPU.
Intel Meteor Lake-P GPU Performance (Compute TFLOPs)
Intel Meteor Lake Mobility CPU Lineup Expected Features:
- Triple-Hybrid CPU Architecture (P/E/LP-E Cores)
- Brand New Redwood Cove (P-Cores)
- Brand New Crestmont (E-Cores)
- Up To 14 Cores (6+8) For H/P Series & Up To 12 Cores (4+8) For U Series CPUs
- Intel 4 Process Node For CPU, TSMC For tGPU
- Intel 'Xe-MTL' GPU With Up To 192/128 EUs
- Up To LPDDR5X-7467 & DDR5-5200 Support
- Up To 96 GB DDR5 & 64 GB LPDDR5X Capacities
- Intel VPU For AI Inferencing With Atom Cores
- x8 Gen 5 Lanes For Discrete GPU (Only H-Series)
- Triple x4 M.2 Gen 4 SSD Support
- Four Thunderbolt 4 Ports
Intel reaffirmed during its recent earnings call that the company will ramp up the production of its Meteor Lake CPUs in 2H 2023 around October-November so expect more news later this year.
Intel Mobility CPU Lineup:
| CPU Family | Panther Lake | Lunar Lake | Arrow Lake | Meteor Lake | Raptor Lake | Alder Lake |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Process Node (CPU Tile) | Intel 18A | TSMC N3B | TSMC N3B | Intel 4 | Intel 7 | Intel 7 |
| Process Node (GPU Tile) | TSMC N3E / Intel 3 | TSMC N3B | TSMC 5nm | TSMC 5nm | Intel 7 | Intel 7 |
| CPU Architecture | Hybrid | Hybrid (Dual-Core) | Hybrid (Triple-Core) | Hybrid (Triple-Core) | Hybrid (Dual-Core) | Hybrid (Dual-Core) |
| P-Core Architecture | Cougar Cove | Lion Cove | Lion Cove | Redwood Cove | Raptor Cove | Golden Cove |
| E-Core Architecture | Darkmont | N/A | Skymont | Crestmont | Gracemont | Gracemont |
| LP E-Core Architecture (SOC) | Darkmont | Skymont | Crestmont | Crestmont | N/A | N/A |
| Top Configuration (Compute Tile) | 4+8 (H-Series) | 4+4 (MX Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 2+8 (U-Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 2+8 (U-Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 8+16 (HX-Series) | 6+8 (H-Series) 8+8 (HX-Series) |
| Max Cores / Threads | 16/16 | 8/8 | 14/14 | 14/20 | 14/20 | 14/20 |
| AI NPU | NPU5 (50 TOPS) | NPU4 (48 TOPS) | NPU3.5 (13 TOPS) | NPU3 (11 TOPS) | NPU2 (7 TOPS) | NPU2 (7 TOPS) |
| Planned Lineup | Core Ultra 300 | Core Ultra 200V | Core Ultra 200 | Core Ultra 100 | 14th/13th Gen | 12th Gen |
| GPU Architecture | Xe3-LPG (Battlemage) | Xe2-LPG (Battlemage) | Xe-LPG+ (Alchemist) | Xe-LPG (Alchemist) | Iris Xe (Gen 12) | Iris Xe (Gen 12) |
| Xe Cores (Max) | 12 Xe3 Cores | 8 Xe2 Cores | 8 Xe Cores | 8 Xe Cores | 96 EUs (768 Cores) | 96 EUs (768 Cores) |
| Memory Support | LPDDR5X-9600 | LPDDR5X-8533 | DDR5-5600 LPDDR5-7500 LPDDR5X-8533 | DDR5-5600 LPDDR5-7400 LPDDR5X - 7400+ | DDR5-5200 LPDDR5-5200 LPDDR5-6400 | DDR5-4800 LPDDR5-5200 LPDDR5X-4267 |
| Memory Capacity (Max) | 128 GB | 32 GB | 128 GB | 96 GB | 64 GB | 64 GB |
| Thunderbolt Support | TB5 | TB5 | TB5 | TB4 | TB4 | TB4 |
| WiFi Capability | WiFi 7 | WiFi 7 | WiFi 7 | WiFi 6E | WiFi 6E | WiFi 6E |
| TDP | 17-45W | 17-30W | TBD | 7W-45W | 15-55W | 15-55W |
| Launch | 2H 2025 | 2H 2024 | 2H 2024 | 2H 2023 | 1H 2023 | 1H 2022 |
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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