A Dell Inspiron 15 laptop allegedly based on Intel’s upcoming 14th Generation Core ‘Meteor Lake’ processors has been spotted. @komachiensaka in the User benchmark database. The chip apparently has 12 cores.
With Intel’s next-generation Meteor Lake laptop processors coming out in the coming months, it’s no surprise that the major PC makers are eager to test machines based on the new CPUs. The U3E1 processor has his 12 cores, can handle 16 threads (meaning 4P+8E configuration) and is said to have a base clock of 1.20 GHz and a turbo clock of 0.55 GHz. This is clearly an error or idiosyncrasy in this pre-production CPU sample.
Given the odd clock, there’s no point in trying to draw any concrete conclusions about this product’s performance (even if the UserBenchmark app could actually provide detailed test results).
However, it is not the frequency composition that attracts attention. Surprisingly, the system detected in the UserBenchmark database is reported as Dell Inspiron 15 5330.This product actually exist (opens in new tab), but still based on Intel’s 12th Generation Core ‘Alder Lake’ processors and while it’s not uncommon to test upcoming CPUs using previous generation motherboards and chassis, Intel’s Meteor Lake is pin compatible There are serious doubts as to whether Alder Lake and because the two are very different.
Intel’s next-generation Meteor Lake CPUs will be the first for Intel’s client products to feature a unique multi-chiplet design, where each chiplet will be manufactured using a different process technology. The processor has compute tiles (CPU cores) produced using Intel 4 process technology (also known as 7nm EUV), graphics tiles built by TSMC (possibly using N3 or N5 nodes), SoC tiles It consists of 4 different tiles containing: , and I/O tiles. These tiles are interconnected by Intel’s Foveros 3D technology.
Intel’s Meteor Lake could share a form factor with existing mobile CPUs, making it easier to manufacture processor-based PCs, but it would likely be less pin-compatible with Alder Lake. Different voltages and power circuits.
While it’s perfectly plausible that Dell is testing a 12-core Meteor Lake processor and the CPU is in a 4P+8E configuration, I’m not sure if this UserBenchmark list correctly points to one of these processors. not. To do so, take all the information (or rather the missing information, the truth to be told) with a grain of salt.
