The full list of Intel's next-generation Arrow Lake CPU models, including their specs, release dates and the works, has been revealed.

Intel's next generation Arrow Lake CPUs were accidentally posted by a UK retailer website. We can now flesh out even more details, including all the important specs for Intel's five launch models, as well as Intel's planned release date.

Benchlife reports that Arrow Lake will be launched on October 24. Intel's plan now seems to be a later date, rather than the earlier date of October 10.

The first five models will use the "Core Ultra", a new nomenclature that was introduced with Intel's Meteor Lake CPUs. The top chip is Core Ultra 9 285K. It has eight Performance cores and 16 Efficient Cores, but there is no HyperThreading. The thread count is therefore the same as the core count.

The 285K's top clock is 5.7 GHz, and its maximum power footprint is 250 W in Turbo mode. It is said to have 36 MB L3 cache and 40 MB L2 cache.

The Core Ultra 5 base model is the Core Ultra 5 245. This model has six Performance cores and eight Efficient Cores, a clock speed of 5.2 GHz and a Turbo TDP of 159 W. It also has 26 MB L2 cache and 24 MB L3 cache.

The other main configuration is a pair of eight Performance core SKUs and 12 Efficient Core SKUs that share the 250W power rating of the top chip.

We also expect Arrow Lake to use Intel's first-gen Arc Alchemist GPUs instead of the new Arc Battlemage GPU hardware that will be coming in the Lunar Lake smartphone chip.

It's not really important, as we will all be using a graphics card to play games, and not an integrated GPU. It does seem odd to have an old GPU in such a new chip.

In a similar vein, it is believed that Arrow Lake will use the old Meteor Lake NPU for AI acceleration which is rated 10 TOPS rather than the fancy NPU in Lunar Lake which is rated 45 TOPS and is eligible for Microsoft's Copilot+ AI PC Certification.

You could dismiss this again, given that modern Nvidia GPUs provide massively more AI accelerator than any of these NPUs integrated. Arrow Lake is still a strange mix of old-school and new.

The chiplets that comprise Arrow Lake will not be mixed. Intel revealed recently that it has given up on any plans to make the CPU die of some Arrow Lake models using Intel's new 20A process.

TSMC will produce all active tiles for Arrow Lake. 20A is essentially dead. You might think that a pure-TSMC Intel processor is a good idea, given the problems Intel has had with their own silicon in the 13th and the 14th Gen Core Processors.

It won't take long to see what Arrow Lake has to offer in terms of performance PCs.