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Intel has confirmed that its next - genArrow Lake CPUsare arriving this year , but it look like they ’ll arrive lose a feature of the last few generations . Arrow Lake , and its like 800 - series chipset , is dropping bread and butter for DDR4 computer memory and move exclusively to DDR5 , according to a new escape share onChiphell .
The leaked slide shows that the CPU will instead use treble - channel DDR5 . That ’s hardly surprising , aswe’ve suspected for a whilethat Intel would move onto DDR5 only as soon as it interchange sockets . The socket swap is coming with Arrow Lake , as Intel leave behind the LGA 1700 socket we ’ve seen for the past three generations and moves onto the new LGA 1851 socket .
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Still , support for DDR4 and DDR5 storage has been a primal feature for the last several generation of Intel CPUs . Unlike AMD ’s Ryzen 7000 chips , Intel decided to confirm both storage standard to keep upgrades cheaper . Not only is DDR4 much cheaper than DDR5 , the motherboards that support DDR4 are cheaper , as well . That made Intel ’s 12th- , 13th- , and fourteenth - gen CPUs a flash upgrade equate to AMD , allowing detergent builder to bring along their old memory .
Since the first appearance of theCore i9 - 12900 K — when Intel first introduced its three-fold retentivity received livelihood — prices for DDR5 have dropped significantly , however . A duo of age ago , you could easy spend $ 200 to $ 250 on a 32 GB kit of DDR5 memory . Today , you’re able to get , and that ’s with fast speed and RGB firing .
Although there ’s sure to be a choice few who are sore about Intel dropping DDR4 sustenance , it ’s probably the best move . DDR4 motherboards among the last three coevals have n’t been the most pop options , and with DDR5 drop in price , it ’s a perfect time for Intel to move on .
The leak also give away some other key details about the platform . Most notably , it showed that the CPU will have a total of 20 dedicatedPCIe 5.0lanes — 16 for the GPU and four for repositing . That bring together an extra four lanes of PCIe 4.0 . In the previous generation , Intel only offered up 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes , meaning you would need to choose between a GPU and storage . We do n’t have any PCIe 5.0 GPUs yet , but it ’s good to know that Arrow Lake will be coiffure up to take vantage of them when they get in .
Although Intel has enunciate Arrow Lake CPUs are arrive this year , we do n’t have an precise date yet . The next release on the agenda comes fromIntel ’s Lunar Lakelaptop CPUs , which are said to arrive in September . Intel will belike speak more about Arrow Lake at its Innovation event afterwards this year , which takes lieu on September 24 .
