Leaker confirms huge NPU boost for Intel Nova Lake - Arrow Lake Refresh disappoints

[WYP]

Intel Leak confirms huge NPU performance gains for Nova Lake desktop CPUs.​

Read more about Intel's NPU upgrade for Nova Lake.

 

[Pat]

The NPU is is largely irrelevant. It’s a low‑power inference block for background tasks.
Even a “huge NPU boost” in Nova Lake doesn’t change CPU latency, Memory residency, Boost behavior; Thread scheduling, GPU utilization; Game frametimes, Asset streaming. DRAM bandwidth sensitivity. Therefore, largely irrelevant.