Intel’s Meteor Lake processors are seemingly on monitor to launch someday within the second half of 2023, so it isn’t stunning to see benchmark outcomes leak a method or one other. Nonetheless, extra stunning than the benchmarks, the corporate has additionally admitted that it’s going to re-brand its venerable Core lineup with the arrival of Meteor Lake.
We reached out to Intel for a remark, and whereas the corporate did not verify specifics, it did point out that there’s going to be a shakeup in its branding. “We’re making model adjustments as we’re at an inflection level in our shopper roadmap in preparation for the upcoming launch of our Meteor Lake processors,” an Intel spokesperson advised Tom’s {Hardware}. “We’ll present extra particulars relating to these thrilling adjustments within the coming weeks.”
This time round, Intel’s upcoming CPU ended up within the Ashes of Singularity database (by way of @BenchLeaks), and whereas the check outcomes hardly deliver any precious efficiency info, they reveal some particulars concerning the specs and branding of those processors.
The alleged Meteor Lake processor examined in AOTS is branded because the Core Extremely 5 1003H, which signifies that the corporate is prepping to drop its i3, i5, i7, and i9 classification for at the very least a few of its upcoming cellular Meteor Lake CPUs. At this level, it is unclear what ‘Extremely’ and ‘5’ imply on this mixture and what different classes shall be within the lineup, however Professional and Max lessons clearly come to thoughts.
In the meantime, it is powerful to guess the precise configuration of Intel’s Core Extremely 5 1003H processor, which allegedly has 18 bodily and 18 logical cores.
Curiously, SiSoftware’s Sandra database additionally lists a 2.10 GHz Meteor Lake processor with an built-in GPU that includes 128CUs, which probably corresponds to 1024 stream processors. Thus far, that is probably the most highly effective built-in GPU.
As for the AOTS check outcomes themselves, the Core Extremely 5 1003H CPU hit 1300 factors in DirectX 11 mode and 1920×1080 decision, which is in keeping with Intel’s Core i7-12700 with UHD Graphics 770.
Holding in thoughts that Intel’s Meteor Lake processor that includes a multi-tile design is at the very least a couple of months away, take the data from unofficial sources with a grain of salt. Intel has confirmed it’s altering the branding however hasn’t given us particulars but. Somebody may conceivably rename an present Intel processor into Core Extremely 5 1003H after which add its check outcomes to the AOTS database. So the naming scheme might be fabricated, however Intel has confirmed to us that at the very least some stage of brand name change is incoming, probably arriving alongside its Meteor Lake chips. Whether or not or not it will permeate all through the cellular and desktop stack stays to be seen.