Intel has confirmed that 8-Core Tiger Lake CPUs are on the way next year. Intel said that they will be introducing next-generation, high-performance 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs with up to 8 cores and 16 threads in 2021.
The information regarding these Tiger Lake CPUs comes from Boyd Phelps who is Intel’s CVP (Corporate Vice President) of Client Computing Group. He revealed the information in an article published by him on Medium.
In his article, Boyd Phelps discussed the higher cache in Intel’s 10nm Tiger Lake processors thanks to the Willow Cove Architecture. Boyd mentioned that consumers can expect up to 24 MB of L3 cache with 8 core die configs which will be available sometime next year. Boyd said
The Willow Cove core increases the mid-level cache to 1.25MB — up from 512KB. We also added a 3MB non-inclusive last-level-cache (LLC) per core slice. A single core workload has access to 12MB of LLC in the 4-core die or up to 24MB in the 8-core die configuration (more detail on 8-core products at a later date).
Intel’s Initial Tiger Lake was launched in August which included the 11th Gen U-series CPUs which had CPU variants up to 4 cores and 8 threads. The Tiger Lake-H series will double the core and thread count to 8 and 16 respectively and also have 24 MB of L3 cache. In his post, Phelps notes that Tiger Lake is expected to hit frequency improvements of 1.2x and turbo frequencies of up to 4.8GHz, with “more to come.”
In addition to the article information, SharkBay from PTT Forums has revealed some more info regarding the Tiger Lake-H CPUs. It is likely that Tiger Lake-H could be split between two platforms with different sockets. The standard Tiger Lake-H chips with 4 cores and 35W TDPs will use the BGA1449 socket, same as Tiger Lake-U chips, while the higher performance H-series CPUs will us the BGA1787 socket and feature up to 8 core variants with 45 Watt TDPs of the Intel Tiger Lake lineup.
Intel’s Tiger Lake-H will be launching close to AMD’s Cezanne-H family which is expected to feature the Zen 3 (7nm+) cores with incremental IPC gains and a slew of other features which are yet to be showcased. The fight for the mobile CPU market supremacy is well and truly on.
