Intel Core Ultra 200S Series Desktop Processors With Dedicated NPU, Iris Xe GPU Launched: Details

Intel
Core
Ultra
200S
series
processors
for
desktop
PCs,
codenamed
Arrow
Lake,
were
launched
by
the
company
on
Thursday.
This
is
the
first
desktop
offering
by
the
chip
maker
with
a
dedicated
neural
processing
unit
(NPU).
With
36
trillion
operations
per
second
(TOPS)
performance
claimed,
these
will
also
be
the
first
Intel
chipsets
to
power
AI
PCs.
Apart
from
improved
performance
via
the
NPU,
the
company
also
stated
that
the
CPU
and
GPU
have
also
received
significant
upgrades.
The
Intel
Core
Ultra
200S
processors
will
be
available
in
retail
and
online
stores
as
well
as
via
OEM
partner
systems
starting
October
24.

Intel
Core
Ultra
200S
Series
Processors
Launched

In
a
press
release,
the
tech
giant
detailed
the
latest
processors.
The
Intel
Core
Ultra
200S
processor
family
is
led
by
the
Intel
Core
Ultra
9
processor
285K
as
well
as
five
other
desktop
processors.
All
of
these
feature
up
to
eight
performance
cores
(P-cores)
and
up
to
16
efficient
cores
(E-cores).
The
company
claimed
that
the
new
PC
architecture
offers
up
to
6
percent
faster
single-threaded
performance
and
14
percent
higher
performance
in
multi-threaded
workloads
compared
to
the
previous
generation.
The
processors
also
sport
a
built-in
Iris
Xe
GPU.

Intel
highlighted
that
the
Arrow
Lake
processors
are
focused
towards
power
efficiency,
and
offer
up
to
58
percent
lower
package
power
while
running
everyday
apps
and
up
to
165W
lower
consumption
of
system
power
during
gaming.

Coming
to
the

NPU,
the
dedicated
system
offers
hardware-accelerated
AI
capabilities.
While
the
company
did
not
reveal
the
architecture,
it
claimed
that
the
processors
offer
up
to
36
TOPS
of
performance.
The
chip
maker
also
claimed
that
the
Core
Ultra
200S
series
can
offer
up
to
50
percent
faster
performance
in
AI-enabled
creator
applications
compared
to
competing
processors.

For
connectivity,
the
Intel
Core
Ultra
200S
series
desktop
processors
offer
compatibility
with
up
to
24
PCIe
4.0
lanes,
up
to
eight
SATA
3.0
ports,
and
up
to
10
USB
3.2
ports.
Additionally,
they
also
support
two
integrated
Thunderbolt
4
ports,
Wi-Fi
6E,
and
Bluetooth
5.3.