On May 11th, news surfaced about Intel's next-generation processor, Panther Lake, even before Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake were released. While the CPU aspect doesn't hold many surprises, the GPU is set for another significant leap in performance.
The positioning of the Panther Lake processor is similar to Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake, all designed exclusively for mobile platforms, including the high-performance PTL-H version and the low-power PTL-U version.
The CPU configuration of the H series includes 4 P big cores, 8 E small cores, and 4 e ultra-low power small cores, totaling 16 cores and 16 threads.
The U series, on the other hand, does not have small cores, featuring only 4 big cores and 4 ultra-low power small cores, totaling 8 cores and 8 threads.
The big core architecture is upgraded to Cougar Cove, while the small core architecture remains the same as Arrow Lake/Lunar Lake, known as Skymont.
It is said that Panther Lake is expected to improve energy efficiency by up to 35% compared to Lunar Lake, and the latter is projected to enhance multi-core performance by 50% compared to Lunar Lake.
In terms of GPUs, Lunar Lake will be upgraded to the second-generation Battlemage Xee-LPG, while Panther Lake will continue to upgrade to the third-generation Celestial Xe3-LPG, with the maximum number of cores increasing from 8 to 12, reportedly boosting performance by 40%.
Leaked code reveals that the Panther Lake GPU integrated graphics will have two levels, GT2 and GT3, but specific differences are not detailed.
Interestingly, the Panther Lake GPU AI computing power is also set to significantly increase to 120 TOPS, combined with the CPU and GPU reaching up to 170 TOPS in total, a 70% improvement over Lunar Lake.
Panther Lake is expected to be released no earlier than 2025 and is likely to belong to the third generation of Core Ultra processors.
