A lot of the struggle came from a suboptimal Bios/software. MSI made big improvements with Bios 1.06: https://www.msi.com/news/detail/The-MSI-Claw-Gaming-Handheld-Achieves-Significant-Gaming-Performance-Improvements-Through-New-BIOS-and-GPU-Drivers--143544
Meanwhile Bios 1.08 further improves...
Intel started Linux driver work last month on Battlemage dGPU, why should they do this if it wouldn't come. We might hear something at Computex about Battlemage.
I refer to the performance prejection from some people, they say it's roughly what we get. And the new leak says 5.5 Ghz with maybe less than 12% ST improvement which is in the same ballpark as the projected 9-13% from the early Intel projection. Maybe they projected with 5.5 Ghz from the beginning.
It's a N3B node for the highest clocked parts. 20A 6+8 will be clocked lower.
The early performance projection slide from igorslab doesn't seem that wrong what Exist and some others implied, in this case MT gains should be higher over Raptor Lake refresh. Geekbench ST 9-13% and MT 16-20% in this.
It'a paper launch this year, AMD never confirmed they will hard launch Strix Point this year. It's telling they just say H2 because it usually means Q4. And you can add 3-6 months from a launch until real volume is available from AMD. Shipping in 2024 including paper launch, that's it. It's like...
Won't happen. AMD Korea said launch at the end of the year and availability is expected in the early first half of next year. Think about Hawk Point, it will be a repeat.
Lunar Lake is much more power efficient. And sure there is more than just an ALU number increase per EU from 8 to 16 units. It was similar in the first Battlemage dGPU entries with 160 and 192 VEs.
Should be from here: https://wccftech.com/intel-lunar-lake-core-ultra-200-cpus-over-100-ai-tops-3x-npu-performance/
Or here: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/index.php/news/hardware/prozessoren/63363-lunar-lake-intel-nennt-100-tops-an-ai-rechenleistung.html
It's not really high resolution though.
Panther Lake comes with 4+8+4 cores from what we know and it comes for the UPH segment. It also comes with 3 tiles unlike Lunar Lake with only 1 tile. They need something better for ARL-H with a faster NPU and the first tile design wasn't great.
A mid 2025 release for Panther Lake would be surprising, this the first time they talked about a release and usually there is at least 1 year between a generation. Or maybe he refers to Clearwater Forest and wasn't specific about it.
Core size numbers from here. Skymont grows big time unlike Lion Cove versus MTL on Intel 4.
Lunar Lake:
P core: 4.55mm²
E core cluster: 8,1mm²
E core (without L2): 1.52mm²
MTL:
P: 5,33mm²
E cluster: 5,9mm²
E core only: 1,04mm²
ADL:
P: 7,12mm²
E cluster: 8,3mm²
E core only: 1,59mm²
From here
Lion Cove appears slightly smaller than Redwood Cove but this is a comparison with Intel 4 to TSMC N3B. Skymont size on the other side increased ~50% with a more dense node.
From the Lunar Lake die picture it clearly looks like Skymont grow exponentially compared to Lion Cove. The 4 core Skymont cluster including L2 is closer to 2 Lion Cove cores in this. With Gracemont it was closer to 1 Golden Cove core.
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