Thanks to the integration of ARC Battlemage GPUs, the new architecture processor from Intel is off to an excellent start.
Intel’s return to the dedicated graphics card market may not have been the success the founder hoped for, but it still largely helped boost its GPU business.
In fact, all chips with integrated graphics solutions benefit from this, and after an already interesting Meteor Lake generation (after all, the MSI Claw is based on this chip), Lunar Lake promises to go much further.
Lunar Lake would arrive before the end of 2024
Computex 2024, which will be held in early June in Taipei, Taiwan, will undoubtedly be an opportunity for Intel to present in detail Lunar Lake, this architecture which should be marketed at the end of the year.
Like those of Geekbench, SiSoftware databases are often the occasion for leaks. This is the case for these details related to an HP X360 HP Specter computer. Its reference “14-fh0xxx – 5CD4038WJV (HP 8CDE)” does not say much more, but our colleagues from VideoCardz indicate that the beast is indeed powered by a Lunar Lake CPU.
In this case, it is an SoC bringing together high-performance Lion Cove cores and efficient Skymont cores. More importantly, the graphics part of the chip is powered by Xe2-LPG cores, a low-consumption version of the ARC Battlemage architecture which will succeed ARC Alchemist at Intel.
Much less energy intensive than Meteor Lake
The Lunar Lake SoC integrated into the HP laptop has an “incomplete” chip with only 7 Xe-Cores, when Intel has already mentioned the possibility of placing up to 8. In doing so, on the X360 Specter, the number of Compute units are only 56, compared to 112 or 128 on current Meteor Lake processors.
This difference in size does not prevent HP’s laptop from largely dominating competing laptops mentioned in the SiSoftware databases (therefore based on Meteor Lake) with 2,108 Mpx/s against, at best, 1,772 Mpx/s. In addition, the HP laptop achieves this performance with a chip clocked at only 1.85 GHz (compared to 2.2 GHz for competitors) and a TDP of 17 watts (compared to 28 watts for competitors).
Given the relative opacity of SiSoftware databases, we will be careful not to draw too quick conclusions. The fact remains that Lunar Lake seems to have great graphics potential, which could open the way to strong competition with AMD’s APUs, in the world of laptops of course, but also consoles.
Source : VideoCardz
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