Intel's Nova Lake lineup leaks with a cache-heavy Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC at the top
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Rumor mill: A leaked list of seven Nova Lake-S desktop processors gives us the clearest look yet at how Intel plans to sell its first consumer chips with a massive last-level cache. The upcoming flagship appears to be the Core Ultra 9 4970K BFC, positioned above the Core Ultra 9 4950K. The list suggests "BFC" will mark the large-cache models across three tiers.
At first glance, the four LP-E cores look exclusive to the BFC models, however Intel leaker Jaykihnsays the standard chips have them too, along with vPro support, but the table simply omits them. A previous 4950K CPU-Z leak supports this: it showed 28 cores, not 24. Without the LP-E cores, the 4950K's 8P+16E layout would match today's Core Ultra 9 285K, which would make for a clean generational...
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