Arrow Lake will reportedly get Thunderbolt 5 but may miss out on Hyper-Threading

Later this year, Intel is expected to launch Arrow Lake, its 15th generation Core processors for consumer desktops and the first to carry the new Core Ultra branding and the LGA-1851 socket.

Following last week's leaked documents from Intel, the X Yuuki_ans account is back with new details about the upcoming processors and their accompanying platform, reports say. WCCF technology. This time it's all about the new external connectivity details, as Arrow Lake is also looking to make a big leap. The processors appear to be the first to appear with Thunderbolt 5, the new PCI-Express 4.0-based version of Thunderbolt that, among other things, supports up to 120 Gbit/s of total bandwidth including video, and up to 64 Gigabit/s. For PCI-Express tunnel.

The documents published by Yuuki_ans include diagrams showing how the new Thunderbolt 5 control circuit, Barlow Ridge, is connected by four PCI-Express 4.0 lanes to the processor. The Barlow Ridge circuit also supports up to three Displayport 2.1 signals from graphics cards.

Technology enhancement While reporting details that went beyond many of the documents Yuuki_ans shared last week. Specifically, it looks like Intel may be removing support for Hyper-Threading – which is two logical threads per physical processor core. In this case, it can lead to decreased performance in some multi-threaded tasks, but on the other hand, it can lead to increased gaming performance of the processors.