On March 11th, it was announced that Intel would be launching two platforms later this year: Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. Despite sharing similar processes and architectures, they cater to high-performance and low-power needs respectively. One unexpected change is the lack of support for hyper-threading.
Nevertheless, there's no need to worry about multi-core performance.
According to the latest leaks, the Lunar Lake, with a power consumption of 17W, outperforms the Meteor Lake-U, which has a power consumption of 15W, in the CineBench 23/5.4.5 test with a nearly 1.5x increase in multi-core performance!
The Meteor Lake-U boasts up to 2P+8E+2LPE, with 12 cores and 14 threads, while the Lunar Lake maxes out at 4P+4E, offering 8 cores and 8 threads.
This means that despite having almost half the logical cores and a slight increase in power consumption, Lunar Lake has achieved a significant leap in multi-core performance.
This indicates that the efficiency of the newly designed Lion Cove P core and Skymont E core architecture will be very high.
According to previous leaks, Lunar Lake's power consumption can range from as high as 30W to as low as 8W (fanless), with up to 12MB of L3 cache, 8 Xe cores for the integrated Xe2-LPG graphics architecture, continued integration of NPU units, and integration of 16/32GB LPDDR5X memory.
