A benchmark leak hints at a GPU specification and a branding update for Intel’s next-gen processors.
The game itself may not be that popular—with a 24-hour peak user count of 67—but the Ashes of the Singularity benchmark database continues to be a fertile breeding ground for hardware leaks. The latest leak to pop out of that place is for an Intel Core Ultra 5 1003H CPU. Say what?
Yes, indeed—look for yourself in the screenshot below. What is a Core(TM) Ultra 5? Good question. It’s entirely possible that this is just some wacky name that Intel stuck on an engineering sample and that it doesn’t mean anything. We’ve seen that before from Intel, where early Alder Lake CPUs were known as “Core-1800.”
We’d probably dismiss it as just that if not for a tweet today from Bernard Fernandes, Intel’s Director of Global Communications. In the tweet, reproduced below, Mr. Fernandes says that Intel is “making some brand changes” because the company is “at an inflection point in its client roadmap.
