Intel’s Arrow Lake engineering samples hit 5.8GHz under liquid nitrogen. Overclockers at a recent event demonstrated the chip’s capabilities, achieving record-breaking Cinebench R23 scores. The 20-core, 24-thread processor uses Intel’s new 20A process node.
Benchmark results show a single-core score of 2,400 and a multi-core score of 38,000 in Cinebench R23. Power consumption during the run peaked at 350W, with temperatures maintained below -100°C. Geekbench 6 results also indicate a 20% improvement over Raptor Lake.
These figures suggest Arrow Lake will be a formidable competitor in the high-end desktop market. The extreme overclocking results may not translate directly to consumer cooling solutions, but they demonstrate the silicon’s potential. AMD’s Zen 5 lineup will need to match both performance and efficiency.