Intel Overhauls CPUs: Alder Lake Architecture Explained - New Core, PCIe Gen5, & DDR5
10,771Intel took the wraps off its latest CPU architecture for the upcoming Alder Lake CPUs. We'll explain Intel's new Performance Cores, Efficient Cores, & the interconnects Intel ADL is using.
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Alder Lake is the biggest change to Intel's core architecture in about 6 years, at least for desktop, and marks a paradigm shift in how Intel is handling workloads of different intensity. The introduction of E-cores and P-cores for Intel ADL desktop CPUs allows for better efficiency, particularly in lower load work, and should theoretically help Intel with its power consumption, management, and resulting thermal envelope. This video also covers Thread Director, which is a workload scheduler to deal with these different types of cores, and other new technologies in the CPUs.
We covered the GPU side of Intel’s Architecture Day here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3kE-3ZLA0Q
We also previously discussed Intel’s process node naming shuffle here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxKGFxmwcDo
Check out our Intel Beast Canyon NUC review here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyuOxrPggAs
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intel Alder Lake Architecture Day
01:51 - Key Details & Intel’s Main Challenge
03:28 - Core Design & Layout
10:09 - New Technologies & Block Diagrams
13:14 - Intel Performance Cores
18:15 - Intel Efficient Cores
22:19 - Thread Director Workload Scheduler
24:19 - Fabric & Connections
25:56 - Conclusion & Final Thoughts
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