Intel Ice Lake architecture listed with increased L1 data cache 48KB and L2 cache 512KB
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m4dn355
The biggest irony is 2-cores (nevermind HT) anno 2019. . .
nevcairiel
This is a low power U-series CPU. There is always room in the low-end for smaller CPUs. Its not like quad cores don't exist, even in the U-series.
Its not like AMD doesn't also have dual core mobile chips on the low end, fittingly also named "U", plus a dual-core Raven Ridge "Athlon" part for low-end desktops.
m4dn355
I understand what you are saying, but I thought that 4 real cores was new starting point - considering new lithography is just around the corner which negates power consumption equation.
BLEH!
I remember the Athlon XP where the boost to 512 kb of L2 cache was like "wow, this is half the chip". Intel must be taking some of this from the Skylake server stuff, maybe we'll see different L3, iunno...
Kaarme
Dual cores in the entry level were never a problem. The problem was how for a decade Intel insisted dual cores and quad cores were enough for the mainstream. Maybe they would have been if at the same time the clocks had gone up to 10GHz. However, Intel was only able to increase the clocks by 0.1-0.2GHz in a generation.
m4dn355
We consumers are hungry for progress even in entry level space, therefore dual core(s) should be history. That's the whole point of my posting.
intel obviously has other plans. . .
-Tj-
Imo what matters here is how 1core will look like.
And it's good to know that they will raise those numbers a bit, I hope other aspects will affect IPC too not just higher L cache
They were talking about completely new arch, no more sandybridge roots 😀
In rough
L1 ~1100gb/s (0.5ns)
L2 ~550 -650gb/s (2-3ns)
L3 ~250 -350gb/s (9-12ns)
vbetts
Moderator
If a dual core 4 thread CPU is faster and more efficient than a quad core that uses more power, efficiency both IPC and power are progress. Core count does not always mean more performance.
H83
So this means Intel is finally going to release a new CPU arch in the near future??? Because they really need it otherwise AMD is going to kick Intel´s ass with Zen2.
Kaarme
Sure, instead of focusing only on making money and forgetting technology.
Btw, my low mid-range smartphone has eight cores. The whole phone was cheaper than my i5k.
Astyanax
no, anything with lake in the name is just a further refinement of the existing one.
user1
thats , not the news i was expecting, looking more,and more like skylake 6.0.
a few more instructions than cannonlake and bigger caches, not very promising thus far.
I really thought they would have something interesting to show by now, maybe they really have stagnated to the point where they stopped trying, and now they are caught with their trousers down.
-Tj-
No, icelake is a new arch. No more core roots that's been in use since sandybridge, up to incl. Cannonlake.
Astyanax
no it isn't.
its the equivalent of nahalem to westmere.
-Tj-
Thats not what I've read few times on various sites, but ok.
Andrew LB
No. It is not. Westmere was just a shrink with a few added features. While ice lake isn't going to be a 100% new architecture from the ground up, it will have architectural changes. Last time Intel designed a chip from a blank slate was 1995.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_CPU_microarchitectures
Astyanax
It really is. lol
Aura89
I'm not seeing where you are getting that ice lake will be more more then just a node shrink with a few changes/added features...which is what you just called westmere.
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/ice_lake_(client)#Architecture
Looks like pretty much a node change and some minor changes, and potentially decent iGPU change.
Whatever "Ocean Cove" or maybe "Sapphire Rapids" is, may be a relatively major architecture change, but i do not expect a major architecture change from intel that'll do anything meaningful to their IPC until past 2021.
