Geekbench Results for 10nm Intel Ice Lake CPU Shows Larger Cache Sizes

By Nathan Kirsch

Ice Lake is Intel’s codename for the 10nm CPU microarchitecture that is expected to arrive in 2020 to replace the Coffee Lake, Whiskey Lake, Amber Lake and Cannon Lake microarchitectures. That is still some time away, but someone today uploaded Ice Lake CPU benchmark results to Geekbench and someone noticed. User ‘alpha_s’ submitted their results to the online database for a dual-core “Ice Lake” engineering sample processor with Hyper-Threading and it scored 4151 in the single-core test and 7945 in the multi-core test. Note that testing was done on Geekbench 4.3.0 Tryout for Linux x86 (64-bit) as testing was done on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

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The base clock for the processor that submitted the results is 2.6 GHz and it looks like Intel has increased its L1 and L2 cache sizes from previous generations. Intel Ice Lake has L1 data cache 48KB and L2 cache 512KB. Current-generation Intel ‘Coffee Lake’ processors have 32KB of L2 data cache and 256KB of L2 cache, so Intel is increasing the cache size once again. Hopefully the latency on the larger cache sizes is good.

This benchmark ‘leak’ comes at an interesting time as just yesterday Intel denied media reports that Intel is ending work on the 10nm process. Here we are one day later and there are 10nm benchmark results posted online.