Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake CPU leaks: up to 25% faster performance than Raptor Lake

The next-gen Intel Arrow Lake CPUs will be launching in Q4 2024 -- or "very late 2024" as Tom adds in his video -- which should make up the first Core Ultra 200 series of Intel CPUs. We should expect to see 24 or 26 cores (depending on how you count them) with 8 x Lion Cove P-Cores and up to 16 x Skymont E-Cores, while we'll also see 2 x Skymont E-Cores within the SoC die itself. This is where the core-count gets a bit tricky, if you don't count them then it's a 24-core CPU, if you do count those two additional Skymont-based E-Cores, then it brings the total core count up to 26 cores.

What should we expect in terms of performance from Arrow Lake? Moore's Law is Dead teases that Intel's next-gen Arrow Lake should beat Raptor Lake "by at least" 25% in single-threaded performance, but he adds that this number could be closer to 30-35% while underlining that none of his sources think it will be above 40%.

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