Intel Alder Lake-S processor sample demonstrates 4 GHz frequency and DDR5-4800 support

In the second half of this year, Intel promises to introduce both mobile and desktop Alder Lake-S processors, so their engineering samples are increasingly found in various open sources. A new revelation of this kind makes sure that desktop versions of Alder Lake will be able to operate at frequencies of at least 4 GHz and support DDR5-4800 memory.

Alder Lake-S desktop processors will require new motherboards, if only for the reason that they will work with DDR5 memory, and will also receive a new physical version - LGA 1700. The test system based on the engineering sample of Alder Lake-S, which left its mark on the SiSoftware website, was installed 32 GB of DDR5-4800 RAM. The layout of Alder Lake-S processors has long been studied: the company of eight productive cores will be eight economical ones, multithreading will be supported only by the first eight, so in total the processor is capable of processing up to 24 threads simultaneously. True, SiSoftware's test on this matter was not fully determined, indicating 24 threads in one place, and 32 threads in another.

The base frequency of the current sample of Alder Lake-S is 1.8 GHz, the maximum is 4.0 GHz. The cache configuration assumes the presence of 1.25 MB of L2 memory per core and a total of 30 MB of L3 memory. The characteristics of the graphics subsystem are also described. At a frequency of 1.5 GHz, it received 32 execution units with a total of 256 shader processors. It is perhaps too early to draw conclusions about the performance level of future Alder Lake-S processors based on the records on the SiSoftware website, but the characteristics can be used for comparison with production samples.