On June 4, 2024, at Computex, Intel revealed new details regarding the next generation of the new mobile processor, code-named Lunar Lake. Lunar Lake brings a new ground-up redesign that delivers greater power and efficiency, and leading AI compute. It will power the next generation of AI PCs with unprecedented x86 power efficiency and no-compromise application compatibility. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Products featuring the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series have already begun to emerge, while Intel’s Lunar Lake, despite numerous leaks, is expected to debut around mid-September. Compared to the desktop platform, the competition on the mobile platform is fiercer, especially with the inclusion of NPU and Qualcomm.
According to Wccftech, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V, the highest specification product within the Lunar Lake corresponding Core Ultra 200V series, has made its first appearance in the GeekBench 6 database. It is the only model in the Core Ultra 200V series with a PL1 of 30W, while the others are all 17W.
The information reveals that the Core Ultra 9 288V has a 4P+4E configuration, does not support hyper-threading, with each P-Core having 2.5MB of L2 cache and a total of 12MB L3 cache, accompanied by 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533 memory. Previous leaks indicate that the Core Ultra 9 288V’s P-Core can boost up to 5.1 GHz, and the E-Core up to 3.7 GHz, integrating the Arc 140V iGPU with a frequency of 2.05 GHz, and the NPU has a computational power of 48 TOPS.
The Core Ultra 9 288V underwent three benchmark tests, achieving single-core scores between 2790 and 2901, and multi-core scores between 9596 and 11048. When compared to the 33W Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, its single-core performance leads by approximately 7%, but its multi-core performance lags by over 25%, due to differences in overall specifications.
Lunar Lake utilizes TSMC’s N3B process to manufacture the entire computing module, including the P-Core and E-Core, corresponding to the new Lion Cove and Skymont architectures respectively. The integrated graphics adopt the next-generation Battlemage Xe2-LPG architecture, supporting up to 8 Xe-Cores, real-time ray tracing, VCC/H.266 hardware video decoding, and video outputs such as DP 1.4, HDMI 2.1, eDP 1.4/1.5.
