Arrow Lake reportedly much less power-hungry than Intel’s prior CPUs

Intel Arrow Lake power characteristic revealed at Chinese Intel X ASUS event

New statements from Intel at a Chinese Intel X ASUS event (via Videocardz), have revealed the low power characteristics of the company’s upcoming Arrow Lake processors. Based on information from the Chinese blogger known as “Little Pigeon”, Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs will be a lot less power-hungry than their Raptor Lake counterparts.

Intel’s next-generation CPUs will reportedly “have at least 100W lower power consumption” than Raptor Lake while maintaining high frequencies. Sadly, performance details for these new CPUs were not revealed, though they are “expected to be impressive”.

With Arrow Lake, Intel are focusing heavily on efficiency. Lower voltages will help ensure CPU stability. Furthermore, reduced power draw will make system cooling a much easier prospect. Despite this reduced power draw, Intel’s next-generation CPUs should be able to deliver more performance than Raptor Lake in CPU-heavy workloads.

Based on the information above, Intel has learned some big lessons from Raptor Lake. Power efficiency matters, and more conservative CPU voltages result in cooler running, more stable CPUs. Honestly, it will be good to have an Intel CPU launch where processor cooling isn’t a major issue. Let’s hope that this Chinese report is correct.

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