Those who follow Intel know that Meteor Lake marks a profound mutation in CPU design at the blue. However, it’s hard to see its full potential just yet. But it’s undeniable that this new architecture has brought about significant changes in efficiency and graphics performance. By the end of 2024, Lunar Lake should take Intel to a new level. We’re talking about an architecture designed for ultrabooks. Lunar Lake will use a combination of Lion Cove P-Cores and E-Cores with Skymont architecture. What’s more, this low-power SoC will use Xe2-LPG graphics based on Intel Battlemage architecture.
Battlemage seems very effective
The leak that allows us to draw some conclusions comes from an HP X360 Specter laptop with a Core Ultra 200V. It appeared under SiSoftware, revealing details and some performance of its Xe2-LPG graphics. SiSoftware’s first iGPU score data are very interesting. We can see that it reaches a total of 2,108 Mpix/s using an iGPU with 56 EU (7 Xe Cores) at 1.85 GHz and 8 MB of L2 cache, all with a power consumption of just 17W . On this basis, we can conclude that it’s 19% faster than the best Intel Meteor Lake with 128 EU iGPUs at 2.2 GHz and 4 MB L2 cache, reaching in this case 1,772 Mpix/s with 28 W.
Lunar Lake will be one to watch when it comes out. On the pure processor side, leaks suggest that it will be 50% faster than Meteor Lake. On the graphics side, the leap forward is also considerable in terms of both performance and efficiency. If these leaks and elements are confirmed, then we can expect some pleasant surprises from Battlemage in general. Both on the laptop and desktop fronts.
