Intel’s current Meteor Lake-U is extremely popular and aligns well with Intel’s AI PC concept. Ultrabooks based on Meteor Lake-U have already hit the market and received considerable praise. However, for ultrabooks, CPU power consumption is always a major concern. The challenge is to achieve satisfactory performance improvements under strict CPU power consumption limits. This tough task seems to have been accomplished by Lunar Lake. According to the latest leaks, Lunar Lake can achieve a 50% performance improvement under almost the same processor power consumption.
Leakers reveal that Intel’s next-generation processor, Lunar Lake has completed preliminary testing. It is expected that the Lunar Lake processor with a 17W TDP will offer a 50% multi-core performance improvement in CineBench R23 and GeekBench 5 compared to the Meteor Lake-U processor with the same positioning, which has 2P cores and 8E cores, amounting to 10 cores and 14 threads. The 17W power consumption is the CPU PL1 setting, and Intel has also provided manufacturers with a maximum cTDP setting of 30W, utilizing excellent cooling to enhance processor performance.
Moreover, with advances in process architecture, even with a 17W TDP, Lunar Lake might use a fanless cooling design. Like the desktop-oriented Arrow Lake processor, this generation will also eliminate hyper-threading technology, suggesting significant performance leaps for both E and P cores, allowing the CPU to maintain impressive performance improvements even if the thread count does not increase or even decrease.
Additionally, according to previous information, Lunar Lake will adopt a 4+4 configuration, consisting of four Lion-Cove and four Skymont cores, and the GPU will utilize the Xe2-LPG architecture Battlemage. To meet the AI requirements of future Windows systems, Intel will also incorporate the fourth-generation NPU in Lunar Lake, further enhancing the processor’s AI performance. As for the process technology, it is estimated to use Intel 20A. We can expect to see the launch of Intel’s Lunar Lake processor by the end of the year, along with corresponding laptops from manufacturers. In today’s AI era, Lunar Lake is highly anticipated.
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