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Intel's Mainstream Nova Lake Desktop CPUs To Consume HEDT-Like Power
Intel is preparing its next-generation Nova Lake Desktop CPUs along with 900-series chipset boards that will feature the LGA 1954 socket. These will replace the existing Arrow Lake Desktop CPUs that utilize the 800-series chipset boards on the LGA 1851 socket.
As per previous leaks, Intel's Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs will feature two variants: a single compute tile offering with up to 28 cores and a dual compute tile offering with up to 52 cores. The CPUs will also be the first to adopt Intel's very own big bLLC cache designs, offering up to 144 MB on single compute tile, and 288 MB on dual compute tile models.
Now, based on information by Kopite7kimi, it looks like Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs with dual compute tiles will feature a very high power consumption at full load. The insider reports that the top Nova Lake-K model with such die configs will consume over 700W of power. Currently, Intel's flagship Arrow Lake CPU, the Core Ultra 9 285K, can consume up to 370-400W of power at fully unlocked mode under stress tests.
It is likely that this high-power figure will only be seen in a handful of workloads that really push the CPU to its limits. Intel Nova Lake dual compute tile CPUs will also feature more than twice the cores as Arrow Lake, so its power figures reaching over 700W make sense. Kopite also says that it will be wise to treat the dual compute tile models as an HEDT offering rather than a mainstream solution, given their high core count, high cache, and high TDP.
This is particularly interesting since yesterday, Jaykihn also reported the preliminary TJMax values of Intel Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs.
According to that, the thermal sensor on NVL-S CPUs can report from -64 °C to 100C temps if Negative Temperature Reporting is enabled and the TJMax cannot be offset, and thermal throttling cannot be disabled, which means that we can expect the chips to run a fair bit hotter, and decent cooling solutions will be able to showcase their true potential. The package size for Nova Lake-S CPUs is also the same as Arrow Lake, so existing coolers will be compatible, but new IHS offsets might be required to ensure proper thermal cooling.
Each 8+16 compute tile is estimated to measure around 94mm2 so two of those should take up around 190mm2 worth of space on the package. Furthermore, it is reported that there will be 4 MB of L2 cache per cluster of Coyote Cove P-Cores (2 P-Cores), so with 16 P-Cores, we are looking at 32 MB of L2 cache on dual and 16 MB of L2 cache on single compute tile models.
Once again, Intel's Nova Lake-S Desktop CPUs, along with the 900-series motherboards, are scheduled to launch later this year and will be competing against AMD's Zen 6-based Ryzen offerings, which also offer new architectural and platform innovations, so quite an interesting battle is being brewed up for 2H 2026.
Nova Lake-S vs Arrow Lake-S
Family
Nova Lake-S
Arrow Lake-S
Core Count (Max)
52
24
Thread Count (Max)
52
24
Max P-Cores
16
8
Max E-Cores
32
16
Max LP-E Cores
4
0
Max Cache (L2+L3)
160-320 MB
76 MB
Max bLLC Cache
144-288 MB
N/A
DDR5 (1DPC 1R)
8000 MT/s
7200-6400 MT/s
PCIe 5.0 Lanes (Max)
36
24
PCIe 4.0 Lanes (Max)
16
4
Socket Support
LGA 1954
LGA 1851
Max TDP (PL1)
125-175W
125W
Max Power
~700W (Dual)
~350W (Single)
~400W
Launch
2H 2026
1H 2026