More leaks for Intel’s Arrow Lake: leaker @jaykihn0 (who has provided several Intel-related leaks in recent times) has published new information on the chipmaker’s upcoming desktop lineup, this time relating to the power draw. The Core Ultra 9 chip in particular is allegedly coming with a new “Extreme” power mode that cranks the TDP even higher than today’s offering.
Flagship Arrow Lake CPUs Gets Even Higher TDP
To be clear, this doesn’t mean all Arrow Lake processors will be power hungry (the company has seemingly claimed that it’ll use 100W less in practice), but it does open the opportunities for users who wants all that power to push through intensive workloads. Below is the table of all the power limits set for each specific core configuration and form factors courtesy of the leaker:
The Core Ultra 9 SKUs will feature three power profiles: Baseline, Performance, and Extreme. In the case of 8P+16E model, Baseline is the least aggressive power profile that maintains 125W PL1 (PBP) and 177W PL2 (MTP), whereas Performance raises PL2 to 250W. Extreme further raises that limit to 295W, the amount of heat which only the most powerful AIO coolers will be able to contain.
For lower-end SKUs though, they will not feature Extreme power profiles, hence the power limits will be lower as a result. The 8P+12E SKU, which is likely the Core Ultra 7 model, retains 250W PL2 under Performance profile, whereas the 6P+8E model (likely Core Ultra 5) maxes out at 159W PL2 under the same setting. Keep in mind that all of these numbers are for K/KF-series models with 125W base power.
Here’s a quick summary of the power limits and comparison against Raptor Lake (13th/14th Gen Core) courtesy of @harukaze5719 on X (Twitter):
There is also one model that lacks a Baseline profile and conspicuously lists the base power as 150W – we think this is likely the special KS model that features more aggressively-binned chips with higher clock speeds and better overclocking capabilities.
Aside from that, the table also lists several cancelled SKUs, which packs as much as 40 cores in a single silicon (8P+32E). Such configuration is originally expected to spawn two variants, presumably K and KS model, with the latter featuring as high as 352W PL2 under Extreme power profile. The leaker did not reveal the reason of cancellation of this SKU, however.
In other sections of the table, we can see laptop variants of Arrow Lake, including Arrow Lake-U, Arrow Lake-H, and Arrow Lake-HX responsible for different laptop classes. We also see a brief mention of Panther Lake, which allegedly comes with 6P+8E configurations, but the leaker made it clear that the final version will only get 4P+8E+4LPE at most.
Source: Wccftech
Pokdepinion: Not sure if doubling down on the “power hungry” CPUs is the best idea, to be honest.
