Intel has introduced Core Ultra 200V (Lunar Lake) processors for laptops. The first laptops with the new chips will go on sale on September 24, 2024. The company promises “the fastest processor core,” “the best built-in GPU,” and “the best artificial intelligence performance,” The Verge reports.
Dell has announced a new version of its flagship XPS 13 laptop with Lunar Lake chip for $1,400, which is virtually identical to the current model in every other way: same body, same dimensions, same screen, same 55 Wh battery. And yet, Dell claims that it can now run for up to 26 hours while streaming Netflix in 1080p at 150 nits of brightness, up from 18 hours in the previous version.
This is a 44% increase, which is a giant leap for Intel if true. For comparison, the XPS 13 version with Snapdragon X Elite has a slightly longer battery life under similar load – up to 27 hours.
In terms of gaming, Intel claims to have finally overtaken AMD and absolutely “crushed” Qualcomm, as its Core Ultra 9 288V has 68% higher frame rates on average than the top-end Qualcomm X1E-84-100 in the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge, and 16% higher frame rates than the AMD HX 370 chip in the Asus Zenbook S 16.
And this is without using Intel’s XeSS scaling technology. With it, the company claims that even ray-tracing games are within the reach of its integrated GPU.
In terms of artificial intelligence, Intel claims that its new computers have much higher performance than Qualcomm’s when using Adobe Premiere and Lightroom functions, as well as other applications.
But it’s worth noting, Intel hides it well, but Lunar Lake is not the most powerful processor for laptops. It’s not even the most powerful Intel processor.
Intel Core Ultra 200V chips have only eight cores, eight threads, a maximum of eight GPU cores, and up to 32 GB of RAM, with no option to add more in the future.
One of Intel’s key efficiency improvements was to do away with separate memory strips or chips, and instead integrate them into the processor chassis. Intel also abandoned hyper-threading, a technology that allowed processor cores to process more than one thread.
And while Intel claims that its 8-threaded Lunar Lake chips can outperform 14- or 22-threaded Meteor Lake chips with lower power consumption, Intel’s latest generation chips can actually outperform them if given more power – as AMD’s HX 370 does.
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