Reportedly Intel is going to make their high-end desktop platform live longer by continuing the LGA 1954 socket support for Razor Lake-S generation. This is important for PC building enthusiasts as users can expect to upgrade to the current Nova Lake-S platform and wait for future performance improvements without having to change their motherboard. This shows a trend towards platform support for multiple generations, instead of switching the socket on every generation.
Intel extends LGA 1954 socket support to 2028 with Razor Lake-S, skipping platform transition
Next generation Razor Lake-S desktop CPUs are planned to launch in 2028, which will follow the launch of Nova Lake-S series. This means new processors will be launching around a year after current generation processors. Razor Lake-S will use the same LGA 1954 socket as Nova Lake-S thus we will have backward socket compatibility.
Razor Lake-S will be using Griffin Cove architecture for performance cores. These are an iteration of previous Coyote Cove cores used on Nova Lake generation. We can expect that the integrated graphics part will be using Xe3P, or Celestial architecture.
It is worth pointing out that client processors will not be supporting Simultaneous Multithreading. So every physical core will process one thread at a time.
They are moving some features from high core count Nova Lake-S SKUs to Razor Lake-S. They are also moving some features originally planned for Nova Lake-AX variation. Manufacturing node and number of cores needs to be confirmed. We will be following up on these as we did with earlier article about Intel Confirms LGA1954 Socket for Nova.
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