Alleged Intel Alder Lake CPU photo surfaces online

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/15/2020 09:22 AM | source: videocardz | 21 comment(s)

Yeah, that's the one with a baffling 1700 pins (LGA100), the processor has dimensions of 37.5x45mm and is bigger than most Intel CPUs.

The photo would be an engineering sample states Videocardz, and only the bottom of the processor can be seen (no details or specifications). Earlier this year, documentation about the lga1700 socket appeared on Intel's website, including references to Alder Lake.

Intel would be fabbing Alder Lake processors on 10nm process and is that series with CPU cores configured in a big.Little design (energy friendly+performance cores). That would be eight big Golden Cove cores and eight low-power Gracemont cores. Alder Lake would also support DDR5 and possibly PCIe 5.0 as well. Alder Lake might see some announcements next year, but that would be at the end of 2021. 14nm Rocket Lake is up first and gets a lga1200 socket.

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fellix
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#5843017 Posted on: 10/15/2020 04:18 PM

I seriously doubt that Intel can make PCIe 5 work already. They could not even make PCIe Gen 4 work for 10th Gen CPU´s. The extra pin count is needed for DDR5's high transfer rate. They will probably have at least 350-400 pins per Dimm.

Most of the extra pins are for additional power/ground capacity. Only small portion is dedicated for the I/O signal overhead.

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#5843099 Posted on: 10/15/2020 09:05 PM

I wish Intel would have logical names for their cpu like core 1st gen, core 2n gen, core 3rd gen and so on instead of rocket lake, magical lake, fairy lake, i don't know wtf this lake is anymore ...

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#5843107 Posted on: 10/15/2020 09:51 PM

So they are finally preparing to move to a smaller fab process but CPU is getting bigger.
Kind of irony.

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#5843147 Posted on: 10/15/2020 11:51 PM

PCIE 4 as I said turned out to be really f. useless so useless that 3080 performs same under both PCIE3 and PCIE4. Intel made a smart decision almost skipping PCIE4 all together and going for PCIE5 and DDR5 and irony is they will jump to it before AMD does.

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#5843150 Posted on: 10/16/2020 12:06 AM

Sad thing about this statement is Intel skipped it and their mobos still seem to have a premium in the majority of cases where as u have the option to take it or leave it with AMD.

As for this little big design I really want to see how this is going to be leveraged I can see mobile benefiting from it but I fail to see a real use for it for the vast majority of desktops. Just seems like it will fill some kind of a niche.

I agree, it's annoying. I've still stuck with Intel, mostly for gaming performance and familiarity, but its things like this that keep stacking up against them. When single threaded performance is worse, and multi-threaded, and the cost is higher, etc it will become really hard to stomach sticking with them.

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