Named Intel Bartlett-S, these CPUs could feature only P-Cores, not any E-Cores. Raptor Lake Refresh could get another refresh too. All this on LGA1700 socket.
About two and half years ago, Intel released the Alder Lake series of CPUs. These CPUs used a newly introduced LGA1700 CPU socket, which required new motherboards. Intel followed it up with the Raptor Lake series of CPUs.
These Raptor Lake CPUs too used the LGA 1700 socket, allowing compatibility of using the same motherboards that are used for Intel Alder CPUs.
While everyone expected a new Intel CPU series and new CPU socket to succeed the Raptor Lake, Intel surprised everyone by refreshing the Raptor Lake series with the 14th-gen Raptor Lake Refresh series. These Raptor Lake Refresh series CPUs too used the same CPU socket.
Now, while Intel is preparing to launch Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 series with an entirely new CPU architecture and new LGA 1851 CPU socket, it looks like Intel doesn’t want to forget the LGA 1700 users behind and wants to release more CPUs on the platform.
More CPUs Coming On LGA 1700
Twitter (now X) based leaker @Jaykihn has been leaking a lot of specs these days. In a new leak, @Jaykihn has revealed that Intel is preparing two new sets of CPUs for the LGA 1700 CPU socket.
First is a Hybrid architecture based on Alder Lake / Raptor lake chips. This seems to use the same or similar specs (with minor naming difference) as the current-gen CPUs.
Big difference being them called Core 3, Core 5, Core 7 series, rather than the current i3, i5 or i7. Surprisingly, they will only come in 65W and 45W variants, suggesting non-K CPUs.
P-Core Only CPUs
The second thing mentioned in the tweet is even more important. It reveals that Intel is preparing an entirely new architecture of CPUs with only P-Cores and no E-Cores whatsoever.
This series of CPUs is named Bartlett-S and will have an 8 P-Core CPU, a 10 P-Core CPU and a huge 12 P-Core CPU.
While the 8P-Core CPU is expected to come with a 45W TDP, the 10 P-Core may have 65W TDP and the 12 P-Core one will have 125W TDP.
This makes a big change to currently available consumer CPUs from Intel, whose P-Cores max out at 8 cores per CPU. A higher P-Core count CPU is something people are asking from years and it looks like Intel is finally giving it to them.
Not only that, having only P-Cores makes a lot of sense on desktops. There are no strong power limits on desktops, so it makes less to have E-cores on their CPUs.
As for Bartlett range, VideoCardz mentions that it’s not new. It was earlier mentioned for network and other uses. It was never spoken about for consumer CPUs. But now that’s expected to change.
As for the release dates, it’s expected that Raptor Lake Refresh 2 will come early January 2025. Whereas the Bartlett line-up of CPUs may come in the third quarter of 2025.
By this time, Intel Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200 series on LGA 1851 socket might become a standard.
Targeting AM4 Of AMD
While some might wonder, why is Intel releasing more CPUs in an LGA 1700 CPU socket which is going to be outdated by then. After all, this goes against Intel’s usual track record of having only two or max three series of CPUs on a single CPU socket.
The answer is simple. AMD has released a huge amount of CPUs on the now outdated AM4 CPU socket. With about 145 CPU released for it as per AMD. AMD launched the AM4 way back in 2016 and it’s still releasing CPUs on it. So Intel is probably wanting to counter AMD with its own long-running CPU socket.
Now, whether this rumor is true or Intel changes its plans, it’s to be seen. Meanwhile, let’s see how Intel Arrow Lake performs. It’s going to take on AMD Ryzen 9000 series of CPUs that are going to release on 31st July, which is months before Intel Arrow Lake releases.
