Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU has been spotted in an HP Spectre x360 laptop, featuring strong Battlemage Arc iGPU performance.
HP Equips Next-Gen Spectre X360 2-in-1 Laptop With Intel's Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU, Cut-Down Arc Battlemage iGPU Showcases Strong Performance
Intel will be introducing its Lunar Lake CPUs under the Core Ultra 200V family later this year. The new family will be targeting thin & light laptops and it looks like a new variant has been spotted in the form of HP's Spectre x360 2-in-1 which features a Lunar Lake-M SKU with LPDDR5 memory. It comes with 32 GB of on-package memory and the chip is rated at a 17W TDP.
While the specifications of the Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU aren't disclosed properly, we get to see another preview of the Arc Battlemage "Xe2-LPG" iGPU, which delivers a big performance uplift over its Arc Alchemist "Xe-LPG" iGPU predecessors. The iGPU features 56 Execution units so it can be concluded that this is a slightly cut-down variant with 7 Xe-cores versus the 8 Xe-core variant that we have seen before. The iGPU features a clock speed of up to 1.85 GHz and comes with 8 MB of L2 cache.
Coming to the performance breakdown, the Intel Arc Battlemage "Xe2-LPG" iGPU on the Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU delivers a huge 2x performance increase despite being a cut-down variant. The Intel Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake iGPUs score around 1000 points in the SiSoftware Sandra GPGPU tests while the Lunar Lake ES chip scores over 2100 points. That's a massive gain within a single generation and if that translates into discrete GPUs too, we are bound to see some big uplifts.
SiSoftware Sandra GP (GPU) Processing Benchmark Higher is Better)
Following are some of the features of Lunar Lake CPUs:
- Designed For Thin & Light Notebooks
- Lion Cove P-Cores & Skymont LPE-Cores
- Battlemage "Xe2-LPG" GPU Architecture
- Up To 8 Xe2 GPU Cores
- 4+4 Core Configurations (MX-Series)
- Up To 64 Execution Units
- On-Package 32 GB LPDDR5x Memory
- Up To 3x Faster NPU Performance Versus Meteor Lake
- 17-30W TDP
- Late 2024 Launch, 2025 Volume
Previously, an Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU was discovered in the Galaxy Book5 Ultra leak which means that OEMs already have access to early samples of the chip and that is good news as we can expect these chips on shelves, on time! According to previous leaks, Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will feature 8 cores in 4 P-Core (Lion Cove) and 4 LP-E cores (Crestmont) configs with Battlemage "Arc Xe2-LPG" iGPUs in up to 8 Xe-Core configs, coupled with 32 GB of on-package LPDDR5x memory and TDPs ranging from 17-30W. Once again, the launch is expected later this year with wider availability planned for the first half of 2025.
News Source: @miktdt
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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