According to pressing rumors, it is Intel’s Serpent Lake architecture which will be the first to use an RTX GPU from Nvidia. This would not be planned before 2028 at the earliest.
In addition to its partnership with MediaTek, Nvidia partnered with Intel last fall. The two manufacturers have thus entered into a financial partnership in which Nvidia is investing nearly 5 billion dollars in Intel. But more than just a story of big money, this association will also give rise to new kinds of products, an SoC with an Intel CPU tile and an RTX GPU part from Nvidia.
Knowing that processor manufacturers have a known roadmap of 2 to 3 years, we knew that we had to be patient before seeing the fruit of this partnership. We now know which family of Intel processors for laptops will feature Nvidia technologies: Serpent Lake.
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According to a major leak last year, Intel plans in 2028 with Titan Lake to completely shake up the processor architecture with unified cores, ignoring the separation between performance cores and efficient cores. According to leaker Jaykihn, the first SoC branded by Intel and Nvidia will be called Serpent Lake and will ultimately be “ a branch of Titan Lake ».
The architecture would thus exploit new high-performance cores (P-cores) called Copper Shark while the efficient cores will still be in the game. Above all, the GPU part would be provided by a GeForce RTX chip for the first time since the inception of the RTX in 2018. In the past, Nvidia has never designed a GPU integrated into an SoC. We remember the GeForce chips within laptop motherboards at the beginning of the 2000s, but they remained separate from the processor. It was only at the beginning of the 2010s that the first iGPUs appeared.
To take up the hypothesis of the Wccftech site, it seems that Intel has delayed the implementation of its unified core if we are to believe this leak. Titan Lake and Serpent Lake could therefore still adopt the two types of cores for its 2028 processors. As for the graphics part, we could reasonably expect it to exploit the Nvidia Rubin architecture which should be unveiled in 2027, or its evolved version the following year.
So many rumors that we will have to take with a grain of salt given the uncertainty of the market, especially when they concern products planned in more than two years.
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