Lion Cove is Intel’s latest high performance CPU architecture. Compared to its predecessor, Raptor Cove, Intel’s newest core can sustain more instructions per cycle, reorganizes the execution engine, and adds an extra level to the data cache hierarchy. The list of changes goes on, with tweaks to just about every part of the core pipeline. Lion Cove does well in the standard SPEC CPU2017 benchmark suite, where it posts sizeable gains especially in higher IPC subtests. In the Arrow Lake desktop pl...