The recreation itself is probably not that widespread—with a 24-hour peak consumer rely of 67—however the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database continues to be a fertile breeding floor for {hardware} leaks. The newest leak to come out of that place is for an Intel Core Ultra 5 1003H CPU. Say what?
We’d most likely dismiss it as simply that if not for a tweet in the present day from Bernard Fernandes, Intel’s Director of Global Communications. In the tweet, reproduced beneath, Mr. Fernandes says that Intel is “making some model modifications” as a result of the corporate is “at an inflection level in its consumer roadmap.” He clarifies that he is particularly speaking about Meteor Lake, and guarantees extra data in “the approaching weeks.”
The leaked processor within the Ashes benchmark is sort of assuredly a Meteor Lake CPU. The “Core Ultra 5 1003H” is reported as having 18 logical cores, which may be very unusual and would not line as much as any identified processor. It additionally would not match neatly with frequent core configurations for Raptor Lake. E-cores, so far as we all know, are available quad-core clusters, and it’s totally uncommon to see them in another configuration.
So saying, this 18-thread processor is most probably a configuration with 4 P-cores, eight E-cores, after which the 2 LP-E-cores discovered on the Meteor Lake SoC tile. That offers us ten E-cores and 4 Hyper-Threaded P-cores for a complete of eighteen threads. Alternatively it is a configuration with six P-cores and 6 E-cores, which may embody the 2 LP-E-cores, however we discover that unlikely contemplating the “5” branding for an “H” SKU.
Interestingly, looking out the graphics driver string from the Ashes benchmark in SiSoft Sandra’s benchmark database reveals extra particulars in regards to the graphics processor in query. It’s apparently a 128-EU Arc half that runs as much as 2.1 GHz. 128 EUs offers it 1024 shaders—comparatively loads for an built-in processor, and equal to an Arc A380, with a better clock besides.
While the Core Ultra’s IGP advantages from architectural refinements made because the launch of the unique Arc GPUs, it additionally has to share its reminiscence bus with the remainder of the SoC. However, if a processor like this consists of the “Adamantine” L4 cache, it may sidestep that concern fairly handily. We’ll be very curious to match the discrete Arc A380 towards certainly one of these Core Ultra processors.
