Monday, June 16th 2025
Intel "Nova Lake-S" Series: Seven SKUs, Up to 52 Cores and 150 W TDP
Rumors of Intel's "Nova Lake-S" processors are increasing, meaning that the design is nearing completion. Expected to arrive in the second half of 2026, Nova Lake-S will offer configurations ranging from mainstream quad-core models to a flagship with 52 cores. Initial information suggests that Intel will employ a tile-based design, separating LPE cores from P-Cores and E-Cores to optimize flexibility and yield. At the top of the lineup is the rumored Core Ultra 9 model, possibly designated 385K. It will combine 16 P-cores, 32 E-cores, and four LPE-cores for a total of 52 cores, as previously rumored. With a TDP of 150 W, it will be the most powerful SKU Intel prepared for this generation. Below the flagship, Intel appears to be planning a Core Ultra 7 SKU with 14 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and four LPE cores, totaling 42 cores.
The Core Ultra 5 series may include three variants: a 28-core version with eight P-cores, 16 E-cores, and four LPE-cores; a 24-core version with eight P-cores, 12 E-cores, and four LPE-cores; and an 18-core model with six P-cores, eight E-cores, and four LPE-cores. Entry-level Core Ultra 3 parts would feature either a 16-core configuration with four P-cores, eight E-cores, and four LPE-cores, or a 12-core option with four P-cores, four E-cores, and four LPE-cores, both targeting a 65 W power envelope. All desktop SKUs are expected to feature four LPE cores on a separate die, suggesting a multi-tile package similar to Meteor Lake. Power demands will range from 65 W in entry-level segments to 150 W for high-end parts. Intel is reportedly preparing a new LGA 1954 socket even as it readies an Arrow Lake-S refresh for late 2025. Intel has also reportedly designated Xe3 "Celestial" for graphics rendering and Xe4 "Druid" for media and display duties.
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The Core Ultra 5 series may include three variants: a 28-core version with eight P-cores, 16 E-cores, and four LPE-cores; a 24-core version with eight P-cores, 12 E-cores, and four LPE-cores; and an 18-core model with six P-cores, eight E-cores, and four LPE-cores. Entry-level Core Ultra 3 parts would feature either a 16-core configuration with four P-cores, eight E-cores, and four LPE-cores, or a 12-core option with four P-cores, four E-cores, and four LPE-cores, both targeting a 65 W power envelope. All desktop SKUs are expected to feature four LPE cores on a separate die, suggesting a multi-tile package similar to Meteor Lake. Power demands will range from 65 W in entry-level segments to 150 W for high-end parts. Intel is reportedly preparing a new LGA 1954 socket even as it readies an Arrow Lake-S refresh for late 2025. Intel has also reportedly designated Xe3 "Celestial" for graphics rendering and Xe4 "Druid" for media and display duties.
104 Comments on Intel "Nova Lake-S" Series: Seven SKUs, Up to 52 Cores and 150 W TDP
Just checked. 36 GB unified (VRAM + RAM) for $2k, $4k for 96 GB.
If so, I'll take 3,726,589.241 please, like, yesterday, hahahaha... :eek:..:roll:..:respect:
Are you basing those claims on what? Your crystal ball or the voices in your head? Come back when you have some facts to back you up.
Until then, customers indeed have a choice on core count, thanks to competition, not a stagnant architecture, or having to throw your motherboard in the trash every 1 or 2 generations.
If you made them up or did 'napkin math' that's fine, just don't present them as facts to build upon. It is consequential to have the correct information, I have a CPU Database to maintain and knowing what parts got bigger or smaller will lend to that cause, hence why I asked where you got your numbers. Pulling numbers out of our bumholes to throw around in arguments isn't what I'm here for, I'm here for facts not conjecture.Not napkin math.
Here's a refurb for even cheaper.Well aside from the times within the last 20 years in which Intel has, in fact, raised prices(P4 670, Q6600, i7 970, 12900KS): Intel can do whatever it wants with pricing. AMD is likely to increase prices with wafer costs going up, Intel probably will too. I remember when they used to trade places at the $1000 price point every other release. It is what it is.I am using the base configuration, 10p+4e, 36GB/512GB Studio as a comparison, correct. It's a full PC ready to use right out of the box for a similar price. You're putting up goal posts for what it "should be" while ignoring what it is. The base spec Studio is perfectly adequate mid-upper tier consumer computer for a lot of light workstation use, just like the average Ultra 9 285K PC. Your statement, I'll remind you, was that the M4 Max was a significantly more expensive platform full stop. If you want to pay more you absolutely can, but you do not have to.
I'll be unfollowing this thread now because this spiraled far out of control. I simply wanted one clarification and to point out that items A and B could be had for the same cost, but somehow that had to become a full blown argument. Why does every interaction with you have to become such a battle? So exhausting.
AMD steppig up from the 16 core part for consumer after 4 generations would not be a bad thing.
Consumer grade 32 core would be pretty sweet and imagine if having full X3D cache as well.
Reseller deals close to the end of a product life cycle, used units instead of straight from Apple. Comparing specific extreme edition limited SKUs, stretching it with edge cases, as usual, to pick fault with me, in particular. You know I mentioned Raptor Lake P/E cores as the 1:4, something even Intel did in their PRs, but you are continuing to pretend the 30% larger die area of a specific generation is the only relevant factual info when there's been several generations of heterogeneous architecture. Talking about 50+ core CPUs in the thread about them, as if buyers would pair them with 32 GB of RAM, then changing goalposts to current 285K. Whatever dude.
I won't continue as it's unprofessional for staff to seem to be in conflict, and you've apparently unfollowed the thread, not that I consider this even slightly stressful or "exhausting".
Have a great day.
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Zen 5 already has hybrid SKUs with normal and C CCDs.
If there is so little improvement going forward as we have seen from both companies like in the last few years there are other tech changes i will care about that will require a new MB when I get a new CPU.