Intel’s upcoming lineup for the Lunar Lake “Core Ultra 200” processors have been leaked, Videocardz reports. The lineup, under the Core Ultra 200V moniker will feature 9 SKUs – but due to the unique memory-on-package design, some of the SKUs are identical in silicon specs but only differed by the total RAM amount it’s attached with.
Intel Core Ultra 200V: Rumored Lineup
The specs of the Lunar Lake lineup has been listed by the outlet, and there are several interesting findings. First, there is only one Core Ultra 9 variant which is designed in the same way as the current-gen Meteor Lake Core Ultra 9 185H: this particular model is the only chip in the MTL lineup to feature PL1 = PL2 (45W), which allows it to fit into beefier laptops. Here, the equivalent would be Core Ultra 9 288V, which comes with 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533 RAM, 5.1GHz P-core boost clock, paired with Arc 140V graphics and the most potent version of the NPU with 48 TOPS on tap.
Moving down the stack, we have four Core Ultra 7s and four Core Ultra 5s on the list, and all of them adhere to 17W PL1 and 30W PL2 – the former is sustained TDP for long-term multi-core workloads, while the latter is burst TDP for short-term multi-core workloads. The last digit of the number indicates the memory configuration: those with ‘8’ comes with 32GB of RAM onboard, while those with a ‘6’ have half the memory capacity in a single-rank configuration. Of course, this means the potential for user-upgradable memory is dead in the water, even if LPCAMM2 is poised to be the solution.
The Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5 are also split in another metric, which is the onboard graphics. Intel is apparently giving its onboard GPUs a better name to identify models this time around, and here we can see the lower-end models come with Arc 130V (7 Xe2-cores), while the Core Ultra 7 and up packs Arc 140V (8 Xe2-cores), albeit at different clock speeds depending on which SKU you choose. Note that these iGPUs will be based on the new Xe2-LPG architecture, which will be powering the Arc Battlemage desktop GPUs in the near future.
One omission on this chart is the core configuration – we know Lunar Lake will max out at 4P+4E cores, and Hyper-Threading has officially gone the way of dodo for this generation. While nothing is known on this part, it likely won’t take long before more leaks gives us further look into the lineup, as Intel is rumored to launch the Core Ultra 200V series as early as mid-September this year.
Pokdepinion: It’ll be interesting to see how many of the Lunar Lake laptops will come with 32GB RAM onboard – these are still very rare these days unless you pay for the highest end of laptops.
