Intels Panther Cove possibly for Core Ultra 400 CPUs could deliver a big performance boost and give AMD engineers some sleepless nights

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Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:07:32 +0000

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Watch out, AMD Intels future CPUs built on Panther Cove might be a huge leap forward in performance.

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A future Intel architecture for its performance cores the hefty cores that
do most of the grunt work, as opposed to smaller efficiency cores in its hybrid CPUs is expected to be a big leap forward for IPC, according to a new rumor.

This is the Panther Cove architecture not to be confused with Panther Lake (well come back to that shortly) and its seemingly going to forge ahead in a major way with IPC. IPC stands for Instructions Per Clock, meaning that processors built with this future architecture will be able to get tasks done faster (literally processing more instructions every clock cycle).

As Toms Hardware reports, leaker InstLatX64 on X brought our attention to Panther Cove getting this boost, as per a post on the Real World Technologies forum (add seasoning).

That post observes that: Panther Cove is big uarch (sic) change with large
IPC [boost] and APX/AVX10 and more. According to @SShwartsman's post on @rwt, #Intel #APX will be supported in #PantherCove core.It seems that it's no coincidence that #DiamondRapids (CPUID 400F10) is no longer a member of Fam6...https://t.co/dZppDKHerM https://t.co/urk3xIVqR2 pic.twitter.com/JvAULqg4Il September 29, 2024

Where does Panther Cove fit in with Intels CPU roadmap? Well, heres where it gets slightly complicated, as you might think its for Panther Lake
processors, right?

Nope, wrong. True, it seems a logical enough conclusion, bearing in mind that Panther Cove is an architecture the nuts and bolts of the tech that makes a CPU core, a performance core in this case and Panther Lake is a family of processors (built on a given architecture, or actually two architectures, as the efficiency cores have a different one but lets not complicate things any further than necessary, this leak is about performance cores).

However, despite the naming commonality, the two dont go together, and in actual fact, Panther Lake CPUs will use the Cougar Cove architecture (processor families are Lakes and architectures are Coves it should be
noted). If the rumors are right, that is some of this leaked info may prove incorrect, as always. (Image credit: Intel) Analysis: Cougars and Panthers
and Coyotes, oh my brain hurts

So, the theory as it stands is that Intels next-gen Arrow Lake desktop processors, which are imminent , will use Lion Cove for their performance cores, and then well have Panther Lake laptop CPUs only, arriving in 2025 with Cougar Cove.

After that, well see the generation with Panther Cove, which in theory would be the Nova Lake family (the next desktop chips for Intel after Arrow Lake, going by the grapevine the purported Arrow Lake Refresh has been canceled). That said, the caveat here is that elsewhere on the rumor mill, others are saying Nova Lake performance cores will be built on Coyote Cove, another name that has only recently come onto the scene, adding to the confusion.

All of this underlines how tricky it can be to digest rumors on hardware
thats a long way down the line, and how Intels naming scheme for CPUs and their architectures is confusing (not matching Panther Lake and Cove just seems a bit daft, and is presumably a result of development timings going
awry at some point).

However, the apparent message is clear were due a big jump in performance with Arrow Lake, a more modest one with Panther Lake, and then a large leap again, as noted with IPC, in the family using Panther Cove (maybe Nova Lake maybe not). Whatever the case, large gains are in the pipeline for the architecture that follows Arrow and Panther Lake, quite possibly the Core Ultra 400 chips if this rumor is right.

The mentioned APX support which stands for Advanced Performance Extensions will also help speed up apps, and could have a pretty wide impact, depending on how much developers leverage it. This is more likely to be for apps than games, but that said, the major game engines could take advantage of APX (fingers crossed) for further gains.

Intels CPU future seems a bit brighter then, adding skepticism appropriately, and things are already looking up on the laptop front with Lunar Lake, mobile chips that have just arrived and have impressed already. You might also like Intel boss confirms Panther Lake is on track for mid-2025 release What is a processor: Your CPU explained in plain terms Intel looks set to supercharge thin-and-light laptops to fight back



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