Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs Launching In 2023, 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs
In the coming months, Intel will launch its 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs but the rumor mill is already talking about the 14th Gen Meteor Lake and 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs which will be arriving on a brand new desktop CPU platform based around the LGA 2551 socket.
Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake & 15th Gen Arrow Lake Desktop CPUs To Launch in 2023-2024 On New LGA 2551 Socket Platform
The latest details come from Moore’s Law is Dead where it is stated that Intel is expected to launch its 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs in 2023 and 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs in 2024. Now both of these lineups have been confirmed by Intel themselves including the generations beyond that which are codenamed Lunar Lake and Nova Lake. The key detail in the latest video is that both families will be utilizing a brand new socket known as LGA 2551.
Intel’s 14th Gen Meteor Lake & 15th Gen Arrow Lake desktop CPUs are expected to utilize the brand new LGA 2551 socket. (Image Credits: Moore’s Law is Dead)
The Intel LGA 2551 socket will be replacing the current LGA 1700/1800 socket which supports both 12th Gen Alder Lake and 13th Gen Raptor Lake CPUs. Intel is known to transition to newer sockets every 2 generations. The LGA 1200 socket also supported the 10th Gen Comet Lake and 11th Gen Rocket Lake CPUs. While the socket remains the same, each CPU brings a host of improvements to the I/O which are enabled through newer chips. The same philosophy is used by AMD and Intel as we see several chipset revisions and updates on the same socket.
According to the details, the Intel LGA 2551 socket for Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs will have exact measurements of 38mm x 46mm and will only be slightly bigger than the existing LGA 1700 / 1800 socket which means those 2551 pins might be packed tightly compared to current designs so that the socket doesn’t take a whole lot of space on mainstream platforms. This will make the Intel LGA 2551 socket the biggest for mainstream desktop PCs, incorporating 751 more pins than Intel’s current mainstream socket and 833 more pins than AMD’s AM5 socket (LGA 1718). With the socket out of the way, let’s take a quick look at both the Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPU families.
Intel LGA 2551 Socket (Image Credits: Moore’s Law is Dead):
Intel 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs: Intel 4 Process Node, Tiled Arc GPU Design, Hybrid Cores, 2023 Launch To Tackle Zen 5
The 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs are going to be a gamer changer in the sense that they will adopt a brand new tiled architecture approach. Based on the ‘Intel 4’ process node, the new CPUs will be offering a 20% improvement in performance per watt through EUV technology and are set to tape out by 2H 2022 (manufacturing-ready). The first Meteor Lake CPUs are scheduled to ship out by 1H 2023 and availability is expected later the same year. The desktop parts are rumored to hit shelves by the second half of 2023 and will tackle AMD’s Zen 5 CPUs by the time they launch.
According to Intel, the 14th Gen Meteor Lake CPUs will feature a brand new tiled architecture and what this basically means is that the company has decided to go full-on chiplet. There are 4 main tiles on the Meteor Lake CPUs. There’s the IO Tile, the SOC Tile, the GFX Tile & the Compute Tile. The Compute Tile comprises the CPU Tile and GFX Tile. The CPU Tile will be making use of a new hybrid core design consisting of Redwood Cove P-Cores and Crestmont E-Cores, delivering higher-performance throughput at lower power while the graphics tile will be unlike anything we have seen before. The CPUs will scale from 5 to 125W which is from ultra-low TDP mobile to high-end desktop PCs.
As Raja Koduri states, the Meteor Lake CPUs will be utilizing a tiled Arc graphics powered GPU which will make it an entirely new class of graphics on a chip. It’s neither an iGPU nor a dGPU & currently regarded as tGPU (Tiled GPU / Next-Gen Graphics Engine). The Meteor Lake CPUs will utilize the brand new Xe-HPG graphics architecture, allowing for increased performance at the same level of power efficiency as existing integrated GPUs. This will also enable enhanced support for DirectX 12 Ultimate and XeSS, features that are only supported by the Alchemist lineup as of right now.
Intel 15th Gen Lunar Lake CPUs: Intel 20A Process Node, Brand New Lion Cove Core ‘Possible Jim Keller Design’ & Competing Against Zen 6
The follow-up to Meteor Lake is Arrow Lake and the 15th Gen lineup brings with it a lot of changes. While it would be socket compatible with whatever Meteor Lake lands on, the Redwood Cove cores and Crestmont cores will be upgraded to the brand new Lion Cove and Skymont cores. These are expected to bring a major advantage with the uplifted core counts…
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