While the mainstream Panther Lake-H CPUs have shown improvements in both CPU and iGPU departments, the power-efficient chips don't seem to have improved over their predecessors.
Panther Lake Core Ultra 7 365 Delivers 6-7% Slower Single-Core and Multi-Core Performance vs Core Ultra 7 268V in Geekbench
We have been gathering all the recent benchmark leaks of the upcoming Intel Panther Lake CPUs, and while we have mostly seen the PTL-H CPUs in the leaks, today, we also got a glimpse of one of its budget offerings. Similar to the Intel Lunar Lake chips, Panther Lake will also have SKUs that have only Performance and LP-E cores. One of those just got benchmarked on Geekbench, showing us what we needed to know about the power-efficient family.
Keep in mind that this is still an early engineering sample, and the scores may improve. Geekbench tends to show a lot of variations in the scores, but here is what you can expect from the Core Ultra 7 365 chip:
Geekbench 6 (Higher is Better)
The CPU was benchmarked with Windows 11 OS in Geekbench 6.3, delivering 2,451 points in single-core and 9,714 points in multi-core tests. Its predecessor, the Core Ultra 7 268V, on the other hand, delivers 2,639 and 10,318 points, respectively. These scores are different based on what benchmark you look at, but overall, this is closer to the average for the 268V.
Both CPUs boast a 4 P-Core + 4 LP-E-Core configuration, but the 268V can boost up to 5.0 GHz, while the Ultra 7 365 can hit nearly 4.7 GHz.
So, there is a disparity in the clocks; however, the Ultra 7 365 reportedly boasts 25W-55W of TDP while the Ultra 7 268V remains in the 17W-37W range. Comparing both, we have the Panther Lake chip around 7% slower in multi-core and 6% slower in single-core vs the Ultra 7 268V. This is a clear performance regression, but with more benchmarks, this could improve. We did see the Core Ultra 7 365 trading blows with 16-core Core Ultra 7 255H on PassMark, which is much more accurate than Geekbench.
At the moment, we don't have a lot of benchmarks for the power-efficient PTL SKUs, and we mostly see Core Ultra X7/X9 series being benchmarked on various platforms. Thankfully, they do offer noticeable improvements in both CPU and iGPU departments when compared to the Arrow Lake family. We will wait for more such benchmarks to see if power-efficient 8-core PTL SKUs can outperform Lunar Lake chips, since it's extremely important, as these SKUs don't have a very powerful iGPU.
News Sources: Geekbench, @BenchLeaks
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