Intel Core Ultra 9 288V, Flagship Lunar Lake CPU, Benchmarks Leak: Faster In Single-Core At 30W Versus Similar TDP Ryzen AI 300

Intel's flagship Lunar Lake CPU, the Core Ultra 9 288V, has been tested in Geekbench 6 and shows strong single-core performance in a low-power design.

Intel Lunar Lake, Core Ultra 9 288V, CPU Showcases Strong Single-Core Performance For A Low-Power Design

The Intel Lunar Lake lineup will be launching in two months in September and will be aimed at the Thin & Light laptop segment. The upcoming lineup will feature brand new technologies such as the first debut of the Lion Cove P-Cores, Skymont LP-E cores, & Xe2 GPU cores along with a powerful NPU offering up to 48 TOPS and an accumulated platform performance of up to 120 AI TOPS. The chips will also mark the beginning of Intel's "Copilot+" PCs.

Starting with the specifications, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V will be the flagship CPU offering within the family, featuring 8 cores and 8 threads. These include 4 P-Cores and 4 LP-E cores a base clock of 3.3 GHz with up to 5.1 GHz P-Core and 3.7 GHz E-Core boost clocks. The CPU is equipped with 12 MB of cache and comes in 30W PL1/PL2 flavors. This is much lower than the existing Meteor Lake lineup which can feature up to 57W MTP.

In addition to the core specifications, the Lunar Lake flagship comes with an Arc 140V GPU running at 2.05 GHz. This new GPU is based on the Battlemage graphics architecture. The chip also features 32 GB (dual-rank) on-package LPDDR5x memory clocked at 8533 MT/s. The NPU offers 48 TOPs and combined with the GPU, you get 115 TOPS plus 5 TOPS from the CPU.

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Coming to the performance, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V "Lunar Lake" CPU scores up to 2901 points in single-core performance and up to 11,408 points in multi-core performance. The lowest scores are 2790 points in single-core and 9596 points in multi-core. The performance was evaluated on an MSI Prestige 13 AI EVO "A2VMG" laptop and the following is how the maximum performance stacks up.

Looking at the single-core performance, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V "Luanr Lake" CPU shows strong single-core performance in a 30W TDP package which is faster than the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 APU with a 35W configuration. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is the newly launched Strix APU with a boost clock of up to 5.1 GHz so similar to the Core Ultra 9 288V's highest clock. But the Lunar Lake manages to outperform it by 2.4% and at a fixed 30W TDP for the AI 9 HX 370, you can see up to a 5% difference.

In multi-core scores, the CPU compares well against the 45W+ configurations of the Ryzen 9 7940H and 8945HS configurations but since it is an 8-core part, it lacks behind the multi-core scores of the Ryzen AI 300 series (10/12 cores).

Despite that, we can see around 12K points in the multi-core tests with final silicon which will be a good deal for the thin and light segment. The iGPU side will be a more interesting comparison as both Intel and AMD have now integrated brand-new graphics architectures within their new laptop offerings.

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News Source: Benchleaks