Intel Nova Lake Leak Reveals Mid-Range CPUs With Massive Cache

While Intel's latest Core Ultra 200 Plus CPUs are highly compelling across a wide range of applications, in the hard-core gaming market, AMD's 3D V-Cache CPUs are largely untouched. It's been well-known for a bit now that Intel was taking a "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" philosophy with its next-gen Nova Lake CPUs, adding massive last-level cache (literally called bLLC, or Big Last Level Cache) to some chips to improve gaming performance.

The question was whether bLLC would find its way into mainstream CPUs or remain solely the province of expensive enthusiast-class processors. We had heard whispers before that there might be one chip in the Core Ultra 7 tier with bLLC, but now prolific Intel leaker Jaykihn has promised a new SKU: a Core Ultra 5 model with a 6 + 12 + 4 core configuration, a 125W TDP, with bLLC, that's unlocked for overclocking.

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