News Quad-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though

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French retailers have started to list Intel's unannounced Core Ultra 3 205, a quad-core Arrow Lake processor.

Quad-core Arrow Lake CPU listed for $150 overseas — Core Ultra 3 205 may not be directly available in retail, though : Read more

 

[bit_user]

The Core Ultra 3 205 ... is a quad-core, eight-thread Arrow Lake processor featuring four P-cores and four E-cores.

This statement doesn't make sense. If it has 4P + 4E, then it's an 8-core, 8-thread processor.

The only way it can be 4 core/8 thread is if it has 4 older P-cores that still had Hyperthreading. That means it'd be either another Alder/Raptor Lake rebrand, or the Intel 3 port of Meteor Lake. If you knew what lithography it used (which Intel normally says, in their product database), that would tell you which.

 

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This statement doesn't make sense. If it has 4P + 4E, then it's an 8-core, 8-thread processor.

The only way it can be 4 core/8 thread is if it has 4 older P-cores that still had Hyperthreading. That means it'd be either another Alder/Raptor Lake rebrand, or the Intel 3 port of Meteor Lake. If you knew what lithography it used (which Intel normally says, in their product database), that would tell you which.

you are correct, but what is most important here is that if you click on the link toms gets a cut of the sale.

 

[bit_user]

So, I found leaked specs that say Lithography is N3B and that it's indeed a 4P + 4E CPU (i.e. 8 cores / 8 threads).

https://www.techpowerup.com/331503/...ishes-core-ultra-3-205-arrow-lake-s-cpu-specs
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That also lists the packaging specifications (LGA 1851). Along with the lithography, that further supports the idea that it's a true Arrow Lake and not a rebadged prior-gen CPU.

The burning question I have is how big the compute tile is. Is Arrow Lake known to have different sized compute tiles?