Intel will give its upcoming Arrow Lake an L2 cache boost

More cache and more performance are in the works for Intel’s upcoming chips.

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What you need to know

Intel’s 14th GenRaptor Lake refreshis on the way later this year but the big evolution for chips is coming with the launch of the 15th Gen in 2024 dubbed “Arrow Lake”. Significant increases in performance are expected. This is due in part to the large increase in L2 Cache for each performance core; or P-core, rumored to be up to a 50% increase up to 3MB from the 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh of 2MB per P-Core.

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This is very similar to how AMD has coupled their Ryzen CPUs with methods like Infinity Cache and theirX3D range. Adding this to higher CPU clock speeds and a new process node for the manufacturing we should see big performance increases for gaming in particular.

How does increased L2 cache help?

This increase would mean a total of 24MB of L2 cache for the rumored Core i9 15900K and we’ve seen already otherrumors regarding a performance increase of 21%. That was part of an internal Intel memo that was leaked, and it didn’t show performance metrics for games, which means it could far surpass this 21% number in that leak.

With the increase in L2 cache it stands to reason that L3 cache will also see a significant increase and so far we haven’t seen what will be brought to the table in regard to the Efficiency Cores; often referred to as E-cores. All of this is pointing towards some promising products coming from Intel in the near future; products that AMD will no doubt be keeping an eye on.

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