The Core Ultra 200V generation of Intel x86 processors has arrived and it claims to deliver ultimate power efficiency for thin and light laptops. These are the first Intel processors manufactured by TSMC, using the N3B (3nm) process for the compute tile and N6 for the platform tile. Thanks to its revised structure, Intel claims that the Core Ultra 200V series laptops can deliver more than 20 hours of battery life in productive use.
The nine (9) new chips, codenamed Lunar Lake, are available in Core Ultra 5, 7, and 9 configurations. They all feature 8 CPU cores with 4x performance (P-cores) and 4x more efficient cores (E-cores), all with 8 threads and no hyperthreading.
Intel claims you'll get 50% power savings over the outgoing Meteor Lake processors. The Lion Cove performance cores feature a 14% improvement over Meteor Lake's while the Skymont efficiency cores double the performance of their predecessor.
The base Core Ultra 5 version features clock speeds of 4.5 GHz (P-core) and 3.5 GHz (E-core), an 8 MB L3 cache, a base power of 17 W (8 W minimum), and a maximum turbo power of 37 W.
Intel Core Ultra 200V Processor Series
The top-of-the-line Core Ultra 9 288V offers clock speeds of 5.1 GHz (P-core) and 3.7 GHz (E-core), 12 MB of L3 cache, 30 W base power (17 W minimum), and 37 W maximum turbo power.
One of the unique features of the Lunar Lake processors is the integrated RAM. The new chips come with 16/32GB of dual-channel LPDDR5x-8533 memory, and you won't be able to add additional memory later. Intel claims that the integrated RAM approach allows for better power efficiency and lower power consumption.
The Lunar Lake chips also feature Intel's new Xe2 integrated GPUs with up to 67 TOPS (tera operations per second) and claims of 1.5x performance improvement over the outgoing Xe GPU found in the Meteor Lake chips.
Intel Core Ultra 9 288V with Arc 140V GPU vs Core Ultra 7 155H
AI tasks will be handled by the updated Neural Processing Unit (NPU) with up to 48 TOPS on the 6x Gen4 version.
In terms of I/O and connectivity, Intel Core Ultra 200V supports PCI-Express 5, Thunderbolt 4, USB4, HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and Gigabit Ethernet.
Laptop makers including Acer, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, and Samsung will announce new Lunar Lake devices starting today, with the first wave of sales slated for September 24.
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