Rumours have it that Intel’s Core Ultra 4000 Series, also currently known as Nova Lake, and more specifically, a 28-core desktop model paired with DDR5-8000 RAM will be faster than the blue chipmaker’s current Arrow Lake flagship, the Core Ultra 9 285K, with DDR5-6400 RAM.
The rumour comes by way of the prominent hardware leakster, Haze, who posted their rumour on X. Specifically, they say that there are two 28-core Nova Lake-S configurations, with a performance uplift over the current desktop CPU generation between 16% and 33%.
Image: Videocardz. To break it down further, Haze says that Nova Lake is expected to deliver as much as 8% raw single-threaded performance without bLLC, short for big last-level cache, and 17% with bLLC. There is also reference to Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (
