A couple of Meteor Lake CPUs have cropped up in the SiSoft SANDRA database, and we take a look.
Welcome back, friends, to the show that never ends. That’s right: it’s dubious hardware leak time, and our subjects today are a pair of what appear to be Intel Meteor Lake CPUs that have popped up in the SiSoft SANDRA result database. We say «appear to be» because the processors have, as usual, been marked out with generic names.
In that case, how do we know they’re Meteor Lake? Well, because there aren’t any other Intel products that are configured like this. One of the chips is in a Dell Inspiron 13 5330 laptop platform, and SANDRA puts it down as «14C/28T» CPU, but that’s obviously wrong for two reasons. For starters, a 14-core processor wouldn’t have seven separate L2 caches, and second of all, the actual core count of the CPU is 18 logical cores.
The only reasonable configuration that matches that number would be a chip with four P-cores, eight E-cores, and then two extra low-power E-cores on the SoC tile. The four P-cores are each a pair of logical cores with their own 2MB L2 cache, and then each quad-core cluster of E-cores gets its own 2MB L2 cache.
The other leaked CPU is in an HP test platform, and that may be why SANDRA reads the system as a desktop when it probably isn’t.
