Lunar Lake Benchmarks Released: Intel’s Answer to AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370?

As the release date approaches, an increasing amount of information about the Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series processors has been unveiled. Recently, their Geekbench scores were leaked, although running Geekbench on x86 processors is more for entertainment. Now, additional score details have emerged.

@jaykihn0 has released the latest benchmark results for the Lunar Lake processors, including scores under 17W and 30W TDPs, paired with 16GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory. Since the memory is directly packaged with the CPU on the same PCB, it achieves extremely high frequencies. The 3DMark Time Spy score for Lunar Lake is 3438 at 17W and 4151 at 30W. For comparison, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with an R890M integrated GPU scores approximately 3500 at 15W and 4221 at 54W. The Ryzen can only use LPDDR5X-7500 memory, making the graphics performance comparable at low power consumption. However, at 30W, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 may not surpass Lunar Lake, though AMD’s processors have a higher power consumption ceiling.

In the table, the Cinebench multi-threaded score likely refers to R23, with Lunar Lake scoring 8182 at 17W and 10212 in multi-threaded performance, marking a 25% improvement. In Crossmark, WebXPRT4, and Speedometer tests, the scores for both power settings are nearly identical. Surprisingly, in Geekbench 5 tests, the 17W score is even higher than the 30W score, which raises questions about either a typo or a testing issue.

The Lunar Lake processors are expected to be available in September this year. The initial Ultra 200V series will feature nine models, ranging from Ultra 9 to Ultra 5. These models will vary in core configuration, GPU specifications, and NPU frequency, but all NPUs will exceed 40 TOPS to meet Microsoft’s AI processing requirements for Copilot+ PCs.