Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs: Performance Meets Power Efficiency
Intel has finally unveiled the first round of Arrow Lake CPUs to hit the market, and they promise better performance than their predecessors for less power.This is potentially a big deal because in addition to their improved efficiency, these are the first desktop CPUs Intel has released with an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
So while these first Arrow Lake chips aren't delivering huge performance gains over their Intel Raptor Lake predecessors, they do promise to deliver similar performance for less power and heat, with the additional advantage of onboard NPUs.
NPUs have been all the rage in laptop chips over the last year or two because they're optimized to chew through the kinds of workloads that most AI apps demand, so having a CPU with a powerful (and power-efficient) NPU has become important if you care about taking advantage of AI-centric features like those available on Copilot+ PCs.
Of course, Microsoft only makes those Copilot+ features available on Windows 11 machines with NPUs capable of achieving 45+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), and since these new Arrow Lake CPUs all deliver just 13 TOPS they likely won't be able to support those advanced features.
But most AI applications these days are capable of utilizing all of the processing power in your PC to run, not just the NPU, so pairing a beefy graphics card (like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090) with one of these new Arrow Lake chips will ensure you'll have more than enough computing muscle to chew through AI apps running locally on your PC.
Here's everything you need to know about the new Intel Arrow Lake chips dropping October 24.
Intel is releasing an inaugural batch of five Arrow Lake CPUs to start, with core counts ranging from 14-24 and speeds from 5.2-5.7 GHz. They all have onboard NPUs capable of 13 TOPS, and most have 4-core onboard GPUs.
As usual, the chips with -F in the name don't come with onboard GPUs, so you'll need to pair them with a discrete AMD, Intel or Nvidia graphics card in a PC. Intel has finally unveiled the first round of Arrow Lake CPUs to hit the market, and they promise better performance than their predecessors for less power.
This is potentially a big deal because in addition to their improved efficiency, these are the first desktop CPUs Intel has released with an onboard Neural Processing Unit (NPU).
So while these first Arrow Lake chips aren't delivering huge performance gains over their Intel Raptor Lake predecessors, they do promise to deliver similar performance for less power and heat, with the additional advantage of onboard NPUs.
NPUs have been all the rage in laptop chips over the last year or two because they're optimized to chew through the kinds of workloads that most AI apps demand, so having a CPU with a powerful (and power-efficient) NPU has become important if you care about taking advantage of AI-centric features like those available on Copilot+ PCs.
Of course, Microsoft only makes those Copilot+ features available on Windows 11 machines with NPUs capable of achieving 45+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), and since these new Arrow Lake CPUs all deliver just 13 TOPS they likely won't be able to support those advanced features.
But most AI applications these days are capable of utilizing all of the processing power in your PC to run, not just the NPU, so pairing a beefy graphics card (like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090) with one of these new Arrow Lake chips will ensure you'll have more than enough computing muscle to chew through AI apps running locally on your PC.
Here's everything you need to know about the new Intel Arrow Lake chips dropping October 24.
Intel is releasing an inaugural batch of five Arrow Lake CPUs to start, with core counts ranging from 14-24 and speeds from 5.2-5.7 GHz. They all have onboard NPUs capable of 13 TOPS, and most have 4-core onboard GPUs.
As usual, the chips with -F in the name don't come with onboard GPUs, so you'll need to pair them with a discrete AMD, Intel or Nvidia graphics card in a PC.
