Intel Lunar Lake appears in SiSoftware benchmarks
Last month, at the “Intel Innovation” summit held in San Jose, California, Intel unveiled its lineup of client processors for the years 2024-2025, introducing the Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, and Panther Lake series. Of these, Lunar Lake represents Intel’s next-generation low-power architecture, designed to elevate artificial intelligence acceleration efficiency and refine the multi-chip designs of Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake.
Recently, Lunar Lake surfaced in the SiSoftware Sandra benchmark suite, equipped with four P-Cores and four E-Cores, signifying its “flagship model” status. It boasts a base frequency of 1GHz, with the P-Core’s turbo frequency reaching up to 3.91GHz. The cache configuration is detailed as 2.5MB x4+4MB for L2 and 8MB x2 for L3. Its power envelope is noted at 17W, although details regarding integrated graphics remain elusive. From the available data, it appears to be an engineering sample, and the final retail version might exhibit variations in frequencies.
In alignment with Intel’s strategic direction, Lunar Lake will harness the capabilities of the Lion Cove P-Core architecture and the Skymont E-Core architecture. It primarily targets the 15W low-power mobile processor niche, emphasizing per-watt performance enhancements for mobile devices. This groundbreaking microarchitecture is poised to deliver a transformative advantage in terms of per-watt efficiency. Speculation suggests that Lunar Lake’s integrated graphics might comprise 64 Execution Units (EUs), based on the forthcoming Xe2-LPG architecture from Battlemage. Concurrently, Lunar Lake is slated for fabrication using the Intel 18A process, heralding the inaugural commercial deployment of this technology. According to Intel’s instruction set reference guide, Lunar Lake will support a gamut of instructions, including AVX-VNNI-INT16, SHA512, SM3, and SM4, among others.
Anticipation is rife for Lunar Lake’s release towards the end of 2024 or the onset of 2025. Its appearance in the benchmark test intimates that Intel may be accelerating its developmental trajectory.
