Following their initial reveal at Computex earlier this year, Intel has fully unveiled its new ‘Lunar Lake’ laptop CPUs at a press event in Berlin. The new Core Ultra 200V chips look impressive, offering significantly better performance at lower power levels than last year’s first-gen Core Ultra ‘Meteor Lake’, with graphics and AI performance being areas of particular improvement. In fact, the new top-level chips are even fast enough for RT gaming at decent frame-rates – something I definitely didn’t expect to be a focus of Intel’s presentation!
Let’s rattle through some numbers quickly. Intel says that its fastest Core Ultra 200V chip has seen its single-core speeds improve by around 18 percent versus the last-gen, while the GPU has improved by 30 percent on average across a 45-game sample. Meanwhile, package power has dropped by 40 to 50 percent versus Meteor Lake, granting nearly a doubling of performance per watt, while AI performance has tripled in some applications.
We all know that the proof of the pudding is in the tasting, so we won’t pass final comment yet – but Intel’s performance claims and hands-off live demos do smell great. Lunar Lake laptops are available for pre-order now from a variety of vendors – Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSI, Samsung – but, as always, we’d advise you to wait for third-party benchmarks if you can.
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