New Intel Nova Lake-AX platform may rival AMD Strix Halo
The battle within the high-performance APU section may quickly get a brand new contender, as the newest rumours counsel Intel is getting ready a monster SoC to problem AMD and Apple within the house. In response to a brand new report, a brand new variant of the next-generation Nova Lake structure, dubbed “Nova Lake-AX”, is on the desk, and its rumoured specs are nothing wanting spectacular.
First talked about by Jaykhin, after which corroborated and expanded Raichu, this “AX” variant reportedly takes a distinct method from the dual-tile design of the upcoming Nova Lake-S desktop chips. To make room for the iGPU, Intel is alleged to have eliminated one of many CPU tiles, leaving a single compute tile with eight “Coyote Cove” P-Cores and sixteen “Arctic Wolf” E-Cores. Mixed with the four-core low-power island on the SoC, this offers the APU a complete of 28 CPU cores.
It’s claimed that the iGPU is powered by the upcoming Xe3 “Celestial” structure and packs 384 EUs. Assuming the same construction to earlier Intel GPUs, this is able to translate to a whopping 48 Xe-Cores. To place that into perspective, that is extra graphics cores than a few of Intel’s present Arc discrete desktop graphics playing cards. To feed this iGPU, Intel is reportedly pairing the chip with a large 256-bit reminiscence bus. As for the reminiscence subsystem, these APUs would assist LPDDR5X reminiscence, with potential speeds of as much as 10,667MT/s.
Regardless of these unbelievable specs, additionally it is reported that the way forward for this mission is ‘questionable’. If correct, then Intel could possibly be evaluating market viability earlier than transferring forward with additional growth.
KitGuru says: Do you assume Intel ought to advance with the Nova Lake-AX APUs?