[Hardware] The new generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% higher multi-thread performance, but the numbers just don't add up

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An Intel Nova Lake leak suggests the next generation of Core Ultra chips will have 60% more multi-threaded performance, but the numbers just don't add up

Although not expected to arrive until 2026, rumors and leaks about Intel's next-generation desktop processors continue to emerge at a rapid pace. The latest information claims that Nova Lake will have "leading gaming performance," coming from over 10% better single-threaded (ST) and 60% higher multi-threaded (MT) performance.

Other than that, there are just two additional statements: "Leadership Gaming Performance" and ">1.1x higher ST and 1.6x MT performance". The former is standard marketing fluff, and there's nothing to really note here, other than Intel is clearly trying to get one over AMD in the gaming market. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is so much better than the Core Ultra 9 285K in games that it's obvious Intel can't ignore it.

A Nova Lake processor with 36 or 40 threads would have an MT uplift over the 285K of 50% to 67%, clock-for-clock, which is more in line with the 60% claim in the leak, but even so, the numbers just don't make a lot of sense right now. Especially that the one thing Intel chips don't need more of is cores.

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