We’re fast approaching the official presentation of Intel’s new Lunar Lake processors. A special event will be held in the run-up to IFA 2024 (early September). Lunar Lake is a milestone for Intel, a generation dedicated exclusively to notebook PCs, with the aim of delivering maximum efficiency and sharply increased performance. In the last few hours, a Core Ultra 7 268V has been spotted in Geekbench. Clearly not the top-of-the-range chip of the generation, its results are impressive, even when compared with its more recent rivals.
Lunar Lake: small but (very) strong
Let’s talk about what we found in these results. This Intel Core Ultra 7 268V posted a single-core score of 2,915 points in Geekbench 6.2. As a reminder, this SoC has a TDP of 17 W and despite this, it performs like an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X desktop with a TDP of 120 W (2,926 points). In the same segment, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, the brand’s top-of-the-range APU for notebooks, with a TDP of 35W, scores 2,833 points.
Focusing on multi-core performance, the Core Ultra 7 268V scores 11,448 points. A result very close to that of the AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS with a TDP of 45W (11,775 points). Here, a Ryzen AI 9 365 (35W) stands out thanks to its higher core count and TDP, with a score of 13,032 points (13%). The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is even further behind with 14,773 points ( 29%). We should bear in mind that this Intel SoC is intended more specifically for the ultra-portable range…
As the Lunar Lake design is totally different, we have to consider that this Core Ultra 7 268V is a processor with “only” 8 cores. If we go a step further, these 8 cores are actually made up of 4 high-performance cores (P-Core) and 4 high-efficiency cores (E-Core). This processor operates at a base frequency of 3.30 GHz and a Turbo frequency of 5.00 GHz. This is what makes its performance so remarkable, since we’re comparing it to an AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS with 8 P-Cores and a TDP of 45W. In the other comparison, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 features 12 cores and 24 threads (4x P-Core 8x E-Core) with a TDP of 54W.
Once again, these results confirm the promise of this generation. We’re clearly looking forward to sharing more data with you.
