All in all, Wildcat Lake is shaping up to be a potent release for the value-oriented consumer, especially during a global component crisis. The exact release date for these chips is unknown at the moment, but we should be seeing them soon, given how much they've been popping up lately. Initial leaks from back in the day actually pointed to a 2025 release, but that was when Panther Lake was also expected in 2025.
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DS426 Here we go again with Geekbench. Do the results include iBOT? I don't doubt that Wildcat Lake is a huge improvement over Twin Lake, but I'm not going to get excited over a single synthetic benchmark result on an engineering sample product. Reply
usertests As for the specs of the CPU, we're looking at a six-core (2P + 4LPE) config, which is the only one Wildcat Lake has, but the Geekbench listing is reporting 1P + 4LPE across the two clusters, meaning one of the performance cores is disabled. If the leaked 320 and 310 from a few days ago have the full 2P + 4LPE config, it wouldn't surprise me if the 304 has only 1P + 4LPE as indicated here. Maybe we'll see 1P + 3LPE or 0P + 4LPE under that. Wildcat Lake SKUs will bring a big ST and decent MT uplift over Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake, but the big thing to look out for is the graphics. Maybe in the range of +100-200% is possible. All in all, Wildcat Lake is shaping up to be a potent release for the value-oriented consumer, especially during a global component crisis. It needs to be quite cheap to matter. $300 and under laptops. They may feel like a sidegrade from i3-1215U/i3-1315U/100U (which can be found under $300) because of their single-channel memory and LPE-cores likely lacking L3 cache access. Graphics will also be closer than Alder Lake-N. Those Alder Lake-based cheap laptops are often coming with 8 GB soldered LPDDR4-3200 and an empty DIMM slot, so another DDR4-3200 stick will about match the bandwidth of a typical Wildcat Lake LPDDR5X system, with higher capacity at a relatively low cost. Reply
ezst036 Please stop with Geekbench. Please blacklist Geekbench. Reply
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