Intel’s Core Ultra laptop CPUs have been its flagships since it retired the previous generational branding scheme and i3/i5/i7/i9 branding a few years ago. He Ultra Series 1 Core, Series 2and Series 3 The processors have been the ones with the newest CPU and GPU designs and the newest manufacturing technology.
Intel has also offered non-Ultra Core CPUs, but they have never been particularly interesting, especially since both the Series 1 and Series 2 The chips were based on Intel’s old Raptor Lake architecture. Raptor Lake was the codename for the 2023 13th Gen Core family, and most versions of Raptor Lake were the same silicon used for the 2022 12th Gen Core CPUs.
But the name and renaming of Raptor Lake apparently couldn’t last forever. The new Intel processors that are not Ultra Core Series 3 They’re new silicon, a return to the days when high-end and mid-range Intel chips could be expected to include many of the same advancements despite their performance differences.
“Wildcat Lake” shares some things in common with Panther Lake, but it is a slower and simpler design.
Credit: Intel
“Wildcat Lake” shares some things in common with Panther Lake, but it is a slower and simpler design.
Credit: Intel
These new chips are codenamed “Wildcat Lake,” and while there are some commonalities with the Core Ultra Series 3 CPUs (also known as Panther Lake), the non-Ultra CPUs use a simpler design with much less computing power.
Each chip uses two silicon tiles: a compute tile that includes a CPU with up to two P Cougar Cove cores and four E Darkmont cores; an integrated GPU with one or two of Intel’s next-generation Xe3 GPU cores; and (typically) an NPU capable of up to 17 trillion operations per second (TOPS). A separate platform controller tile built on an unspecified non-Intel process provides up to two Thunderbolt 4 ports, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.0 connectivity, and six PCIe 4.0 lanes for external connectivity. All chips support up to 48GB of LPDDR5X-7467, or up to 64GB of DDR5-6400, and use a base power level of 15W and a maximum boost power level of 35W.
