A brand new entry of the Intel Alder Lake Desktop CPU has been made within the Geekbench benchmark. This particular entry is yet another 16 core variant which we have already seen a couple of times before but comes with slightly better clock speeds but still retains an ES state.

Intel 12th Gen Core Alder Lake Desktop CPU Spotted With 16 Cores, 24 Threads & 2.20 GHz Base Clocks, On Par With The Core i9-10900K CPU

The Intel Alder Lake Desktop CPU is an engineering sample and should be part of the 12th Gen Core family when it launches in the third quarter of 2021. As we know, the Alder Lake CPUs will feature a hybrid design that will feature both Big x86 and smaller Atom cores.

The bigger cores (Golden Cove) will feature multi-threading so it should be equivalent to 8 cores and 16 threads. The smaller cores (Gracemont) however won't feature SMT and will be configured at 8 cores and 8 threads. This would yield a total of 16 cores and 24 threads.

The particular configuration that leaked out features 16 cores and 24 threads so this is the top core configuration we are looking at. The base clock for the chip is reported at 2.20 GHz while the boost clock is reported at 27.2 GHz which is an erroneous reading. It could be possible that Geekbench V4 being an older benchmark is unable to properly read the boost clocks of the CPU due to its hybrid design. Other specifications include a 30 MB L3 cache, 3.75 MB of L2 cache, and a 960 KB of total L1 cache. The CPU was tested on an Alder Lake-S internal test platform by Intel which features DDR5 memory. The exact speeds for the DDR5 DIMMs are also not known but the base modules will be operating at 4800 MHz.

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