The latest leak showed us the performance of the model Intel Core Ultra 7 256V. He belongs roughly in the middle of the field. It has a base frequency of 3.7 GHz for E-Core and 4.8 GHz for P-Core (the most powerful 288V has 3.7/5.1 GHz). This processor has an Arc 140V GPU, i.e. a full-fledged graphics chip, at a slightly reduced clock of 1.95 GHz (288V has 2.05 GHz). The 256V is the version with an integrated 16GB of RAM, but some models may have 32GB.
And how did it actually turn out? In terms of single-threaded performance, the new Lunar Lake achieved a 2608 points. The older Meteor Lake (Core Ultra 9 185H) with 45W PBP and a menacing 115W MTP beats it by 16%. This is a very good calling card for a new chip. It significantly outperforms the older Ryzen 7 8840HS with 28W TDP, even by 22%. The new architecture thus appears to be very efficient indeed. On the other hand, it turns out that the new Ryzens with the Zen 5 architecture can be very powerful even with a 28W TDP, and the Ryzen AI 9 365 is 5% better in the single-thread test, and the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is even almost 9% better. At the same time, this also means that Zen 5 versus Zen 4 at the same 28W TDP delivers 28-32% more performance in this test. However, we know that the IPC of the new Ryzens should be higher by only about half of this amount, about 16%.
Next, we have a multi-threaded test. The latter is more tricky with Geekbench 6, even more so than the single-threaded one, as it suits new architectures a lot. The new Lunar Lake (256V) reached here at 10506 points. Here, the small number of cores and the absence of Hyper-Threading are clearly evident, but probably not as significantly as we would expect. Even with this result, Lunar Lake was able to beat the older 28W AMD with 8 cores and 16 threads. The Ryzen 7 8840HS is 9% slower. However, Lunar Lake understandably does not support newer chips and processors with a higher number of cores. The aforementioned Meteor Lake with 16 physical cores and 22 threads (which is almost 3x what Lunar Lake can handle) is only 15% higher. Considering the difference in the number of cores and consumption, we would certainly expect Lunar Lake to be significantly weaker than Meteor Lake. 15% is a surprisingly small difference.
However, it should be noted here that Lunar Lake has a significantly more powerful E-Core, which is one thing (the IPC should be 38-68% higher, as it was really tragic with older E-Cores). Secondly, as already mentioned, Geekbench 6 is very suitable for new architectures, where it achieves surprisingly good results compared to the older ones (the new 6-core can beat, for example, two generations older 16-core), which ultimately complicates the comparison (the result from the benchmark cannot be related very well on the general performance of the processors). The new Ryzens also run a lot, there the higher number of cores and the presence of SMT will simply show. Ryzen AI 9 365 will offer 24% more performance, Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 will offer almost 41% more. If we look at the Ryzens among themselves, the AI 9 365 offers 37% higher MT performance against the 8840HS at the same 28W TDP.
Source: www.svethardware.cz
