Alder Lake will be announced on October 27 during the “Intel Innovation” event

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 07/28/2021 09:04 AM | source: videocardz | 16 comment(s)

Following the lead of CEO Pat Gelsinger and the tentative dates Intel has been providing, Intel will hold its Intel Innovation event on October 27 and 28, according to a press release. Everything points to the announcement of Alder Lake at this event.

As well as being the first desktop processors to use Intel's new 7-nanometer manufacturing process, they will also be the first to use a hybrid architecture that combines high-performance cores with cores with high efficiency, similar to ARM's BIG.little. In addition, this new generation will be the first to support DDR5 and PCI-Express 5.0 memory.

Intel confirmed that Alder Lake-S will feature 8 Golden Cove cores and 8 Gracemont cores

Alder Lake-S will feature 8 Golden Cove high-performance cores and 8 Gracemont high-efficiency cores, Intel confirmed this in a new render. Due to the fact that Gracemont cores do not support Hyper-Threading (HT), Alder Lake-S can only offer 16 cores and 24 threads, which is what the i9-12900K will have.


	Rocket Lake-S	Alder Lake-S	Raptor Lake-S	Meteor Lake-S	Lunar Lake-S
Launch Date	March 30, 2021	Q4 2021	Q4 2022	2023 (?)	2024 (?)
Fabrication Node	14nm	Intel 7	Intel 7	Intel 4	TBC
Core µArch	Cypress Cove	Golden Cove + Gracemont	Raptor Cove + Gracemont	Redwood Cove + Gracemont (?)	TBC
Graphics µArch	Gen12.1	Gen12.2	Gen12.2	Gen 12.7	Gen 13
Max Core Count	up to 8 cores	up to 16 (8C+8c)	up to 24 (8C+16c)	TBC	TBC
Socket	LGA1200	LGA1700	LGA1700	TBC	TBC
Memory Support	DDR4	DDR4/DDR5	DDR5	DDR5	DDR5
PCIe Gen	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0	PCIe 5.0
Intel Core Series	11th Gen Core-S	12th Gen Core-S	13th Gen Core-S	14th Gen Core-S	14th Gen Core-S
Motherboard Chipsets	Intel 500 (Z590)	Intel 600 (eg. Z690)	Intel 700 (eg. Z790)	TBC	TBC

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Undying
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#5932975 Posted on: 07/28/2021 09:23 AM

All that slow cores-fast cores, odd number of threads still on ddr4 just feels wierd man. Im not hyped at all for alder lake.

Lily GFX
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#5932983 Posted on: 07/28/2021 09:51 AM

Considering AMD will do BIG little Zen5(?) I am really curious about Alder Lake might
even buy one. Will wait for the DDR5 motherboards, hopefully both DDR4 and DDR5
motherboards will be available at launch and that they use 24pin so no new PSU is
needed.

Also I hope the performance rumors are true or at least close and that AMD and Intel
start beat each other when it comes to performance from now on every time both
releases a new generation.

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#5933004 Posted on: 07/28/2021 10:34 AM

Intel Coffin inside

tunejunky
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#5933125 Posted on: 07/28/2021 05:01 PM

despite all of my faint praise for Intel, i'm psyched to see these go on the market.

and relating to a story posted a few days ago these are Intel 7, not 7nm.
that confusion is exactly what was desired.

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#5933138 Posted on: 07/28/2021 05:29 PM

All that slow cores-fast cores, odd number of threads still on ddr4 just feels wierd man. Im not hyped at all for alder lake.

What? Alder Lake is the most exciting Intel launch in years. New Intel 7 node, DDR5, PCIE5, ATX V12, rumors and leaks showing very nice performance uplift overall (take with a grain of salt of course). You are just a cynical person, that is all.

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