Several Intel next-generation products which include CPUs and GPUs have been spotted within GPU drivers. The leaked products were spotted by Reddit user, stblr, who had previously posted the specifications of AMD's RDNA 2 GPUs, as per Videocardz. The new products include the CPU lineup codenamed Lunar Lake and two Gen 13 powered Xe GPUs.

Intel's Next-Gen Lunar Lake Desktop CPUs & Gen 13 Powered Xe DG3 & Jupiter Sound GPUs Spotted

The Redditor mentions that these come from within the latest GPU drivers and all information was decoded from them. The details have been unveiled just days after Intel announced its first Xe GPU based discrete graphics chip known as Intel Xe Max.

Intel Lunar Lake Desktop CPUs

The first thing to talk about is the Intel Lunar Lake lineup of processors. There's no mention of Lunar Lake up till now and it was briefly mentioned by Moore's Law is Dead but no details were disclosed. The Lunar Lake CPUs will most likely replace the Meteor Lake lineup and hence fall in Intel's 14th Gen branding unless Intel decides to change that by then since we are talking at least two or three years from now (2022-2023).

What's interesting is that Lunar Lake is listed with Gen 12.9 graphics. This suggests that we are looking at a refined variant of the Gen 12 architecture rather than Gen 13 since that starts with other two products that we will talk about here. Alder Lake Desktop CPUs are listed with 12.2 & Meteor Lake are latest with 12.722 Generation codenames.

Intel Mainstream CPU Generations Comparison:

Intel CPU Family	Processor Process	Processor Architecture	Graphics Architecture	Processors Cores/Threads (Max)	TDPs	Platform Chipset	Platform	Memory Support	PCIe Support	Launch
Sandy Bridge (2nd Gen)	32nm	Sandy Bridge	HD3000	4/8	35-95W	6-Series	LGA 1155	DDR3	PCIe Gen 2.0	2011
Ivy Bridge (3rd Gen)	22nm	Ivy Bridge	HD4000	4/8	35-77W	7-Series	LGA 1155	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2012
Haswell (4th Gen)	22nm	Haswell	HD4600	4/8	35-84W	8-Series	LGA 1150	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2013-2014
Broadwell (5th Gen)	14nm	Broadwell	Iris Pro 6200	4/8	65-65W	9-Series	LGA 1150	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2015
Skylake (6th Gen)	14nm	Skylake	HD 500 Series	4/8	35-91W	100-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2015
Kaby Lake (7th Gen)	14nm	Skylake	HD 600 Series	4/8	35-91W	200-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2017
Coffee Lake (8th Gen)	14nm	Skylake	HD 600 Series	6/12	35-95W	300-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2017
Coffee Lake (9th Gen)	14nm	Skylake	HD 600 Series	8/16	35-95W	300-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2018
Comet Lake (10th Gen)	14nm	Skylake	HD 600 Series	10/20	35-125W	400-Series	LGA 1200	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2020
Rocket Lake (11th Gen)	14nm	Cypress Cove	HD 700 Series	8/16	35-125W	500-Series	LGA 1200	DDR4	PCIe Gen 4.0	2021
Alder Lake (12th Gen)	Intel 7	Golden Cove (P-Core) Gracemont (E-Core)	HD 700 Series	16/24	35-125W	600 Series	LGA 1700/1800	DDR5 / DDR4	PCIe Gen 5.0	2021
Raptor Lake (13th Gen)	Intel 7	Raptor Cove (P-Core) Gracemont (E-Core)	HD 700 Series	24/32	35-125W	700-Series	LGA 1700/1800	DDR5 / DDR4	PCIe Gen 5.0	2022
Raptor Lake Refresh (TBA)	Intel 7	Raptor Cove (P-Core) Gracemont (E-Core)	HD 700 Series	24/32	35-125W	700-Series	LGA 1700/1800	DDR5 / DDR4	PCIe Gen 5.0	2023
Meteor Lake	Intel 4	Redwood Cove (P-Core) Crestmont (E-Core)	Xe1 (Alchemist)	22/28	35-65W	800 Series	LGA 1851	DDR5	PCIe Gen 5.0	2024
Arrow Lake	Intel 20A	Lion Cove (P-Core) Skymont (E-Core)	Xe1 (Alchemist)	24/32	TBA	800 Series	LGA 1851	DDR5	PCIe Gen 5.0	2024
Arrow Lake Refresh (TBA)	Intel 20A	Lion Cove (P-Core) Skymont (E-Core)	Xe1 (Alchemist)	TBA	TBA	800 Series	LGA 1851	DDR5	PCIe Gen 5.0	2025
Lunar Lake	Intel 18A	TBD	Xe2 (Battlemage)	TBA	TBA	900-Series?	LGA 1851??	DDR5	PCIe Gen 5.0?	2025
Panther Lake (TBA)	TBA	TBD	Xe3 (Celestial)	TBD	TBD	900-Series?	LGA 1851?	DDR5	PCIe Gen 6.0?	2026
Nova Lake (TBA)	Intel 18A	TBD	TBA	TBA	TBA	1000-Series?	TBA	DDR5?	PCIe Gen 6.0?	2026

There's no telling if Intel will still be supporting its LGA 1700 platform by the time Lunar Lake is launched. Currently, Intel has kept socket and platform compatibility alive for at least two CPU generations but that might change in the future due to increased competition from AMD and its Ryzen (AM5) platform.

Intel Jupiter Sound Xe GPUs

On the GPU side, we first have Jupiter Sound which is a name which we have heard before and is supposed to be the successor to the Intel Arctic Sound line of chips. The Intel Arctic Sound is the GPU powering Intel's Xe-HP lineup which is aimed at datacenters and workstations. The current lineup is based on the Gen 12 Xe architecture but Jupiter Sound is listed as a Gen 13 Xe architecture based design.

Just like Intel's Xe-HP (1st Gen), the Xe-HP (2nd Gen) lineup is going to feature a tiled MCM designs with multiple chiplets featuring 1000s of EUs and tens of thousands of cores. The lineup will use an advanced SuperFin process node but Intel is also exploring external fab options to help produce their next-generation GPUs. From the looks of it, the high-performance lineup at least will be built on Intel's own internal fabrication process but that could change in the future.

GPU Family	Intel Xe-LP (1st Gen)	Intel Xe-HPG (1st Gen)	Intel Xe-HPG (1st Gen)	Intel Xe-HP(G) (2nd Gen)	Intel Xe-HPC (1st Gen)
GPU Segment	Entry-Level (Integrated + Discrete)	Mainstream / High-End Gaming (Discrete)	Datacenter & Workstation	Datacenter & Workstation	High Performance Computing
GPU Gen	Gen 12	Gen 12	Gen 12	Gen 13	Gen 12
Process Node	Intel 7	TSMC 6nm	TSMC 6nm	TBA	Intel 7 (Base Tile) TSMC 5nm (Compute Tile) TSMC 7nm (Xe Link Tile)
GPU Products	Tiger Lake DG1/SG1 Cards	ARC Alchemist GPUs	Arctic Sound	Lancaster Sound	Ponte Vecchio
Specs / Design	Up To 96 EUs / 1 Tile /1 GPU	Up To 512 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU	Up To 512 EUs / 1 Tile / 1 GPU	TBA	8192 EUs / 16 Tiles per GPU
Memory Subsystem	LPDDR4/GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	TBA	HBM2e
Launch	2020	2022	2022	2023?	2022

Intel DG3 Xe GPUs

Finally, there's talk about Intel's DG3 Xe GPUs which will be based on the Gen 13 Xe graphics uarch. Now we can't say for sure if DG3 will be a DG1 or a DG2 successor. The DG1 GPUs are entry-level chips which are primarily aimed at the mobility segment and do come in a few desktop variants but not intended for the consumer market. The DG2 GPU on the other hand will be part of the Xe-HPG lineup which is primarily built for the gaming desktop graphics card segment and launching in the coming year.

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The Intel DG3 Xe GPUs would most likely launch in 2022 since we still aren't sure when exactly in 2021 does Intel plan to launch its DG2 Xe GPUs. With that said, the DG3 Xe GPUs will offer better performance in all regards over their predecessors and with improved efficiency since Intel would have gained a lot of expertise in the discrete graphics department, especially for gamers, by then.

Gen12 and Gen13 summary (via stblr @ Reddit):

Gen	Codename	Cores	Subslices	Memory
12.1	Tiger Lake UP3/UP4 (TGL-UP3/UP4)	4	12	UMA
12.1	DG1	N/A	12	LPDDR4x
12.1	Rocket Lake S	8	4	UMA
12.2	Alder Lake S (ADL-S)	8+8	4	UMA
12.2	Alder Lake P (ADL-P)	6+8	12	UMA
12.2	Alder Lake M (ADL-M)	2+8	12	UMA
12.5	Arctic Sound (ATS)	N/A	4 x 64	HBM2E
12.5	Tiger Lake H (TGL-H)	8	4	UMA
12.71	DG2	N/A	64	GDDR6
12.721	Ponte Vecchio (PVC)	N/A	?	HBM2E
12.722	Meteor Lake (MTL)	?	?	UMA
12.9	Lunar Lake (LNL)	?	?	UMA
12.9	? (SYL)	?	?	UMA
13	Jupiter Sound (JPS)	N/A	?	?
13	DG3	N/A	?	?

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