Intel, panther lake It is working on a new processor that will bring its family to more affordable handheld consoles. According to the leak, the model includes four performance cores, four low power cores and four Xe3 graphics cores It carries. Additionally, Intel announced that portable gaming computers using this processor under $800 aims to stay. The company has not yet announced the model’s name, power limits or sales schedule.
Intel announced the first part of its Panther Lake plan for handheld consoles on May 28 with the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme. These processors combine two performance, eight efficiency and four low-power cores. In addition, Arc G3 has up to 10 Xe3 cores, while Arc G3 Extreme exceeds this number. to 12 Xe3 cores it raises. Acer Predator Atlas 8, MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ and some OneXPlayer models are among the first products to use this platform.
The cheaper Panther Lake model in the leak offers a total of eight CPU cores with four performance and four low power cores. In contrast, Intel remains well below the Arc G3 Extreme level by using four Xe3 cores on the integrated graphics side. Thus, while manufacturers turn to a lower-cost processor option, they can create different budgets for components such as display, storage and battery. However, Intel has not yet announced whether this model will bear the Arc G name.
Panther Lake family on higher models 16 CPU cores, 12 Xe cores and 50 TOPS NPU performance It reaches up to . Additionally, Intel noted up to a 77 percent increase in gaming performance compared to Lunar Lake in its own measurements. The company is working on the compute part of the Panther Lake processor Intel 18A production technology is using. On the Arc G side, there is XeSS 3, multi-frame generation, Xe Low Latency, ray tracing and precompiled shader support.
Intel aims for lower prices with Panther Lake
Intel announced up to 11 hours of gaming time on the battery under suitable conditions with the Endurance Gaming feature in the Arc G series. Additionally, the company states that precompiled shaders speed up loading times in supported games by more than three times on average. It has not yet been announced whether the new model with four Xe3 cores will support all of these features. Intel also did not share the final specifications of the processor and its initial manufacturing partners.
On the price front, Steam Deck OLED is now very close to Intel’s target level. Valve will announce the US price of the Steam Deck OLED 512 GB model on May 27. for $789the price of the 1 TB model for $949 raised it. On the other hand, AMD maintains its place in the handheld console market with the Ryzen Z2 family and uses the Ryzen Z2 Extreme processor in models such as the MSI Claw A8. Intel also plans to offer manufacturers a different x86 processor alternative in this price range with the four Xe3-core Panther Lake option.
On the upper side, Panther Lake is already included in the MSI Claw 8 EX AI + under the name Arc G3 Extreme. The Verge reported that in its test dated August 14, the device surpassed Xbox Ally X using Ryzen Z2 Extreme at 1080p resolution by approximately 40 percent. In contrast, MSI for Claw 8 EX AI+ $1,799 set the price. While Intel and MSI have been working together on this product for over two years, the release date of the cheaper quad Xe3 core Panther Lake model has not yet been announced.
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