Golden Cove

Golden Cove
General information
Launched	November 4, 2021
Designed by	Intel
Common manufacturer	Intel;
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	1.0 GHz to 5.5 GHz
Cache
L1 cache	80 KB per core: ; 32 KB instructions; 48 KB data;
L2 cache	Per core: 1.25 MB (client); 2 MB (server);
Architecture and classification
Technology node	Intel 7 (previously known as 10ESF)
Instruction set	x86, x86-64
Extensions	AES-NI, CLMUL, RDRAND, SHA, TXT, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, AVX-512, AVX-VNNI, TSX, VT-x, VT-d;
Products, models, variants
Product code names	Alder Lake (client); Sapphire Rapids (server, workstation);
History
Predecessors	Sunny Cove, 1S and 2S servers, 10 nm; Skylake, 4S and 8S servers, 14 nm; Willow Cove, mobile, 10 nm; Cypress Cove, desktop, 14 nm;
Successor	Raptor Cove

Golden Cove is a codename for a CPU microarchitecture developed by Intel and released in November 2021. It succeeds four microarchitectures: Sunny Cove, Skylake, Willow Cove, and Cypress Cove. It is fabricated using Intel's Intel 7 process node, previously referred to as 10 nm Enhanced SuperFin (10ESF).

The microarchitecture is used in the high-performance cores (P-core) of the 12th-generation Intel Core processors (codenamed "Alder Lake") and fourth-generation Xeon Scalable server processors (codenamed "Sapphire Rapids").

General information

Launched	November 4, 2021 (November 4, 2021)
Designed by	Intel
Common manufacturer	Intel
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate	1.0 GHz to 5.5 GHz
Cache
L1 cache	80 KB per core: 32 KB instructions 48 KB data
L2 cache	Per core: 1.25 MB (client) 2 MB (server)
Architecture and classification
Technology node	Intel 7 (previously known as 10ESF)
Instruction set	x86, x86-64
Extensions	AES-NI, CLMUL, RDRAND, SHA, TXT, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, AVX-512, AVX-VNNI, TSX, VT-x, VT-d
Products, models, variants
Product code names	Alder Lake (client) Sapphire Rapids (server, workstation)
History
Predecessors	Sunny Cove, 1S and 2S servers, 10 nm Skylake, 4S and 8S servers, 14 nm Willow Cove, mobile, 10 nm Cypress Cove, desktop, 14 nm
Successor	Raptor Cove