ALDER LAKE PROCESSOR CONFIGURATIONS

At the time of writing this article, Intel has yet to share exact processor SKUs they expect to have, but they did leave with us some parting thoughts of what to expect on the highest configured processor which would have up to 16 cores (with 8 performance and 8 efficient cores), executing up to 24 simultaneous threads (via dual threads per performance core and a single thread per efficiency core), and a grand total of 30MB of last-level cache.

The above configuration is for a desktop-class Alder Lake processor, while image hints on their slide suggest that a typical mobileclass performance processor could have up to 14 cores (with 6 performance and 8 efficient cores), and an ultra-mobile lowpower package might have up to 10 cores (with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores).

Don’t forget that Alder Lake will support DDR5 (and DDR4), PCIe 5.0, Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E and to make this all possible, the interconnect throughput within the processor blocks have been greatly widened with up to 1,000GB/s compute fabric, 204GB/s memory fabric and a 64GB/s I/O fabric.

The following configuration is for a desktop-class Alder Lake processor, while image hints on their slide suggest that a typical mobile-class performance processor could have up to 14 cores (with 6 performance and 8 efficient cores), and an ultra-mobile low-power package might have up to 10 cores (with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores).