Intel Lunar Lake Outperforms Meteor Lake In Multi-Core Despite Lacking Hyper-Threading
Intel Lunar Lake Outperforms Meteor Lake In Multi-Core Despite Lacking Hyper-Threading
Team Blue’s Lunar Lake processors are set to supersede the current-gen Core Ultra Series 1 “Meteor Lake” laptop processors – recently, new leaks have pointed to the upcoming architecture featuring substantial multi-core performance uplift, despite the lack of a long-standing feature.
According to leaker @SquashBionic, Lunar Lake (LNL) is claimed to have an “almost 1.5x” multi-core performance increase over Meteor Lake (MTL-U), as tested on Cinebench R23 and GeekBench 5.4.5. One thing to note, LNL has also slightly bumped the TDP target to 17W from the 15W in the MTL chip, which may contribute to the performance ever so slightly. Still, one needs to keep in mind that LNL does not feature hyper-threading, just like its desktop counterpart, Arrow Lake.
To give you some context, hyper-threading has been a mainstay on CPUs for over two decades – it allows improved parallelization of computations which improves multi-core performance. However, it has also been subjected to various side-channel attacks in recent years.
Previously, Intel has previewed the LNL-MX architecture that laid the basic specs of the new chip. In the slide, the company has set to target both the 15W and 8W segments, with the former now updated with higher TDP targets (as opposed to 15-28W). Only 4P+4E configuration is shown so far, and it’s unclear if more core combinations are available.
CPU performance aside, Lunar Lake is expected to feature a three-fold increase in NPU performance, a new Xe2-LPG graphics architecture, and is expected to be announced later this year, with mass productions expected to commence in early 2025.
Source: Videocardz
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