Alder Lake-S leaks

[Minstadave]

These trolls and idiots will never understand that it doesn't matter what's written on the box, but what's written on the warranty list provided by the retailer. If the retailer gives 1-year warranty, then this is it.

Oh dude....even for you this is special.

 

[TNA]

Oh dude....even for you this is special.

 

[cliffy]

These trolls and idiots will never understand that it doesn't matter what's written on the box, but what's written on the warranty list provided by the retailer. If the retailer gives 1-year warranty, then this is it.

Come on dude, that's tray version not full retail, exactly the same for Intel CPU's, stop being stupid

 

[TNA]

I expect he will now either ignore everyone and carry on like nothing happened or dig deeper. What he won’t do (the respectable option) is put his hands up and admit he got it wrong on this occasion.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

lol 4K

 

[pete910]

What he won’t do (the respectable option) is put his hands up and admit he got it wrong on this occasion.

Hell could freeze !

 

[random_matt]

https://wccftech.com/alleged-intel-...cpu-runs-hot-93c-power-consumption-over-250w/

Crappy source, but there you go. Although, does mention the guy from Lenovo.

 

[KompuKare]

Stranger thing is that Intel attempting to copy ARM's big.LITTLE concept should be all about mobile first and perf/watt.

250W PL2 and even worse PL3 sounds like a total failure of mobile first.

Which isn't too say that Alder-Lake S on desktop will be failure, but it does speaks of Intel forcing the parts way past the part's and then process's performance/watt sweet point.

Probably in an attempt to win at any cost. Can't see the top model being cheap then. First as only few dies will make the cut, and also the platform to run them will be expensive in terms of motherboard power phases and the PSU. And that's before DDR5 which will presumably be required to push performance to the max.

 

[cliffy]

I thought the point of big + little cores was to keep power consumption down??

 

[Destination]

yes that works when little is little and big isn't overly big, when big is a nuclear furnace............ #intel

 

[Tetras]

I thought the point of big + little cores was to keep power consumption down??

It probably will, if the scheduler works. I don't think it was intended to help with stuff like blender, it'll be more effective for light or mixed workloads which desktop PCs spend most of their life doing.

 

[Grim5]

I thought the point of big + little cores was to keep power consumption down??

Thats exactly what it's for and it's working as intended, increasing multithreaded performance for the same power consumption.

Rocket lake PL2: 250w, just 8 cores
Alder Lake PL2: 250w but has 16 cores and a bigger iGPU than Rocket Lake

Big.Little on desktop is not about "using less power". It's about "doing more with the same power".

Big.Little on portable devices is about "using less power to save battery life". Desktop PC does not care about battery life

 

[LePhuronn]

Rocket lake PL2: 250w, just 8 cores
Alder Lake PL2: 250w but has 16 cores and a bigger iGPU than Rocket Lake

Zen 3: 16 cores at half that power

It's going to be very interesting to see how Alder Lake performs and if the architecture can be scheduled correctly, but it's still laughable that Intel still require boatloads of energy. Intel's big.little implementation should be about reducing energy as well as performance, otherwise what's the point?

And it's just going to get insane with Raptor Lake doubling the number of little cores.

 

[Grim5]

Zen 3: 16 cores at half that power

And how is that relevant? Its two different architectures, it makes more sense to compare it to an older Intel CPU - maybe Zen3 could have 24 cores at half the power if they also used Big.Little

And anyway, PL2 on Intel is like PBO for AMD. Turn PBO on for a 5950x = 250w

 

[Grim5]

And it's just going to get insane with Raptor Lake doubling the number of little cores.

If it was on the same node maybe. The Big cores for raptor lake will be made on "Intel 5" which is their 7nm process so it has performance per watt advantage over Alder lake's Big cores for power savings there that could go into adding more little cores.

Also currently the little cores are a fair bit behind the big ones in IPC (the little ones have roughly 50% of the IPC the big ones have) so there may be room to extract more performance from them at lower clock speeds over time - i.e if you can improve IPC by 10% then you can lower clock speed which reduces power draw and add more cores.

 

[jigger]

Stranger thing is that Intel attempting to copy ARM's big.LITTLE concept should be all about mobile first and perf/watt.

250W PL2 and even worse PL3 sounds like a total failure of mobile first.

Which isn't too say that Alder-Lake S on desktop will be failure, but it does speaks of Intel forcing the parts way past the part's and then process's performance/watt sweet point.

Probably in an attempt to win at any cost. Can't see the top model being cheap then. First as only few dies will make the cut, and also the platform to run them will be expensive in terms of motherboard power phases and the PSU. And that's before DDR5 which will presumably be required to push performance to the max.

It is an odd strategy, but Intel need to get power in check and I’m sure most of the product stake will drop performance in favour of lower power use.

 

[cliffy]

And how is that relevant? Its two different architectures, it makes more sense to compare it to an older Intel CPU - maybe Zen3 could have 24 cores at half the power if they also used Big.Little

And anyway, PL2 on Intel is like PBO for AMD. Turn PBO on for a 5950x = 250w

Nearly but not quite, on mine i hit 220W at 100% load with all cores boosting to 4.6Ghz. I am certainly looking forward to the reviews and although sceptical i have told my brother to hang fire on an upgrade till its been released

 

[jigger]

Nearly but not quite, on mine i hit 220W at 100% load with all cores boosting to 4.6Ghz. I am certainly looking forward to the reviews and although sceptical i have told my brother to hang fire on an upgrade till its been released

What are running to hit 220watt? I’d imagine that is only while you have the thermal headroom and at the wall?

 

[humbug]

Nearly but not quite, on mine i hit 220W at 100% load with all cores boosting to 4.6Ghz. I am certainly looking forward to the reviews and although sceptical i have told my brother to hang fire on an upgrade till its been released

This is full system load?

 

[humbug]

It would add up.

130 Watts for the CPU.
Fans 5 watts each. X4?
Punp? 5 Watts
RAM 10 Watts
Chipset 10 watts
Idle GPU 20 Watts
Drives 10 watts

205 Watts with some efficiency loss through the PSU 220 Watts at the wall sounds about right.