{"id":850131,"date":"2026-08-10T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850131\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T10:18:12","slug":"intel-nova-lake-s-igpu-with-12-xe3p-cores-to-feature-40-w-pl2-and-20-mb-of-l2-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850131\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel “Nova Lake-S” iGPU with 12 Xe3P Cores to Feature 40 W PL2 and 20 MB of L2 Cache"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the reliable Intel leaker Jaykihn, Intel’s upcoming “Nova Lake-S,” featuring 12 Xe3P cores, currently has a Power Limit 2 (PL2) setting of about 40 W. This builds on the previous rumor<\/a> that this integrated graphics solution will arrive with two VCCGT phases for up to 65 W of power. This SKU includes four P-Cores, eight E-Cores, and four LPE-Cores, along with 12 Xe3P GPU cores. This 4+8+4 CPU core and 12 GPU core configuration is one of the few processors where integrated graphics require two VCCGT phases. In regular SKUs, VCCGT is a single-phase power rail for the integrated graphics inside the processor.<\/p>\n

However, we now know that the PL2 setting will only use 40 W, as the 65 W threshold is set for extreme scenarios like PL3, and the graphics processor’s PL4 is capped at that 65 W figure. The Xe3P features more microarchitectural changes compared to the Xe3 found in “Panther Lake.” If readers recall, a 12 Xe3-core iGPU found in “Panther Lake” has 16 MB of L2 cache, while the Xe3P iGPU dedicated to “Nova Lake” will have a 20 MB L2 cache configuration, a 25% increase. More L2 cache means that some workloads will naturally benefit, but we still don’t know preliminary performance. The Xe3P microarchitecture is expected to carry more changes, especially since it has a larger L2 cache.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/<\/a> Depending on the SKU, Intel can include a single compute die for up to 28 cores total or two compute dies for a 52-core CPU SKU. It seems that the single compute die version will arrive first, with the dual compute die variants following. The 28-core “Nova Lake-S” DS version, a new SKU segment, is expected to launch in Q1 of 2027. For the regular overclocking-focused “K” SKUs, Intel reportedly plans an early Q2 launch between March and April. Since this is a single compute die SKU with 16 CPU cores and 12 GPU cores, we can expect to see it possibly within the first wave of the “Nova Lake” releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the reliable Intel leaker Jaykihn, Intel’s upcoming “Nova Lake-S,” featuring 12 Xe3P cores, currently has a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,105],"class_list":["post-850131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}