Intel Leaks claims “Leadership Gaming Performance” for next-gen Nova Lake CPUs

Leaked slide hints at HUGE multi-threaded performance gains for Intel Nova Lake CPUs

With its next-generation Core Ultra 300 series “Nova Lake” CPUs, it looks like Intel is taking gaming performance very seriously. A new leak has suggested that Intel plans to deliver “Leadership Gaming Performance” with its next-generation CPUs. This indicates that Intel has solved the issues that have plagued its Arrow Lake series processors, which were slower than their predecessors in most gaming workloads.

Alongside increased gaming performance, Intel has also claimed that its new CPUs deliver gains of more than 1.1x in single-threaded performance and 1.6x in multi-threaded performance. Unfortunately, we do not know which CPUs are being compared or what market these CPUs are targeting.

Leaked specifications for Intel’s Core Ultra 300 series Nova Lake desktop CPUs suggest that Intel has plans to launch CPUs with up to 52 total cores. This would explain Intel’s HUGE multi-threaded performance gains. That said, 60% performance gains from a greater than 2x core count boost imply that power limits or thermals may be limiting Intel’s multi-threaded performance gains.

(Alleged Intel Nova Lake Slide Data – Via @G_melo_ding)

Can Nova Lake destroy AMD’s gaming leadership?

The above slide claims that Intel plans to deliver “Leadership Gaming Performance.” If Intel wants to achieve this, it needs an answer to CPUs like AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D series. Perhaps Intel can counter AMD with its own 3D cache technology? Maybe Intel will deliver larger standard (non-3D) caches with Nova Lake. Alternatively, Intel may have improved other aspects of its CPU cores to maximise their gaming potential.

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