Intel’s Royal Core: Lunar Lake CPU Designed to KILL New AMD Zen 5  

The codename and anticipated performance goals of the Intel next-generation core series were revealed in a previous leak. “Arrow Lake,” “Lunar Lake,” and “Nova Lake” are the three codenames. However, the prior disclosure simply highlighted their anticipated process nodes and launch schedule and provided no further specifics. Now, MLID provides further details.

The Royal Core future of Intel, according to one of the most recent leaks, will begin with Lunar Lake and extend to Nova Lake by 2025. According to rumors, Lunar Lake and Nova Lake will deliver architectures that compete with AMD’s Zen 5 and surpass our current IPC gains. Below, we provide all available information.

Performance goals and codenames for Intel’s upcoming CPU generations were previously leaked. The three post-Meteor Lake lineups with the codes Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Nova Lake were the subject of the leak. The next generation’s projected process nodes and launch schedules were the only details provided regarding their features. We review the additional material revealed in the following new leak, along with some intriguing additions. Well, it is very intimidating to know beforehand what’s coming up, whether it is the new technical software or in the form of online slots.

Alder Lake to Meteor Lake, according to MLID, is Intel warming up for its ultimate goal of offering a perfected tile-chiplet design that would either use a 2.5D or 3D stacking architecture. This was Jim Keller’s vision when he helped Intel create these next-generation core architectures, not merely Intel’s. According to MLID, Jim Keller internally referred to the design as “Royal Core,” which sounds like a step beyond the conventional core architecture that has been around for over a decade. In truth, the post-Meteor Lake lineup would be unlike anything Intel has done before.

With Lunar Lake, Intel Royal Core Will Achieve Its Apex

According to the source, Alder Lake and Meteor Lake are now in the warm-up stage for Intel’s final goal, which is to introduce a sophisticated and advanced tiled chiplet design that would use a 2.5D or perhaps 3D stacking architecture. This is Intel’s goal and Jim Keller’s vision, who worked with Intel to create these core designs for the future generation. Jim Keller has internally referred to the design as Royal Core, and the post-Meteor Lake lineup would be on a new level. It denotes a step up from the standard core architecture that has been used for over a decade.

A highly refined version of Lion Cove, the first “Royal Core” architecture, is already included in the 16th generation of processors, Lunar Lake, and is scheduled to debut with the 15th generation of processors, Arrow Lake. The 17th Generation, Nova Lake, will improve upon the Royal Core design. Based on all reports, Intel’s first victory over Apple’s next-generation ARM architecture would come from the updated Lion Cove design in Lunar Lake. Lion Cove will offer at least a 30% improvement in IPC over Golden Cove, which is probably the case with Intel Arrow Lake. This will require an additional 5–10% IPC performance improvement in Intel Lunar Lake, and this will be increased even further with Panther Cove cores for Nova Lake.

Future CPU Generations from Intel and Their IPC

By 2026, Intel is expected to adopt SMT4 for its CPUs, memory compatibility for up to DDR5 at 7,400 MHz, integrated machine learning cores, and other capabilities. However, it is unclear which generation this will be. The schedule is consistent with Nova Lake. Therefore, it seems that is when Intel’s CPU architecture will undergo the most substantial changes.

Below, we’ll look at all we know about Intel’s upcoming generations.

Arrow Lake Intel 4 of the 15th Generation

It is a brand-new name to us and seems to be the Intel 4 process node’s architecture update. Arrow Lake CPUs have 40 Lion Cove and Skymont cores, which improve computational performance (8 large and 32 small).

Although premium Arrow Lake enthusiast items are mentioned, they refer to the essential K-series parts rather than the HEDT processors. According to estimates, the performance will be on par with AMD and Apple processors, suggesting a double-digit gain.

Lunar Lake from The 16th Generation Intel 3

The Lunar Lake family of 16th-generation Intel Core processors may be the first ones made on the Intel 3 node. These CPUs are predicted to perform better than AMD and Apple. We know this design will replace Meteor Lake because of the released documents. However, given the rumor that Arrow Lake may arrive sooner, we shouldn’t anticipate these CPUs to be ready until the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.

An Enormous IPC Improvement Came from the 17th Generation, Nova Lake Intel 3

The Nova Lake CPUs would finally introduce the Panther Cove and Darkmont architectures. Even more so than the Core architecture, launched in 2006, the series represents Intel’s most significant architectural push in company history.

We are talking about the levels of IPC improvement offered by AMD’s Zen 1; however, these processors are not expected to arrive at the earliest by late 2025 or early 2026. The CPU IPC performance gain over Intel Lunar Lake devices is projected to be more than 50%.