We have a new performance rumor regarding Intel’s upcoming Lunar Lake-MX lineup, launching later this year. As per the leak, Lunar Lake offers 1.5x higher performance than Meteor Lake at near similar TDPs.
8C/8T Lunar Lake-MX CPU Smokes 10C/12T Meteor Lake-U Counterpart Despite Lacking Hyperthreading
Lunar Lake comes tailored for different TDP levels, 8W (No Fan) and 17W (Single Fan) being the currently known configurations per leaked information . Bionic_Squash reports that Intel has given leverage to OEMs by extending the cTDP from 17W to 30W , depending on the chosen cooling solution.
At 17W , single-fan-equipped Lunar Lake-MX systems can be considered the direct successor to 15W Meteor Lake-U offerings. To that end, Bionic_Squash claims that a Lunar Lake sample at 17W was found to be 1.5x faster in multi-threaded workloads than a similar 15W Meteor Lake-U CPU.
MTL-U (15w)-> LNL(17w) Almost 1.5x MT perf increase (CB23, GB 5.4.5) — Bionic_Squash (@SquashBionic) March 10, 2024
The user has not shared any verifiable information, so take this with a grain of salt. Moreover, this report is based on synthetic testing in Cinebench R23 and GeekBench 5.4.5 . Real-world performance can vary slightly.
The relevant Meteor Lake-U CPU hosts 2P and 8E cores alongside 12 threads. Meanwhile, Lunar Lake only has 4P and 4E cores with just 8 threads (no HT). Despite featuring 1.5x more threads, Meteor Lake sees Lunar Lake in the lead by a whopping 1.5x .
Lunar Lake: What Do We Know So Far
Based on yesterday’s leak from MLID , Intel is ready to launch Lunar Lake no later than Q4 2024 . In fact, it may even hit shelves before Arrow Lake if plans go accordingly.
- Lunar Lake
- Up to 4 Lion-Cove P Cores and 4 Skymont E Cores with no SMT
- 8 Xe2 (Battlemage) iGPU Cores
- Support for On Package LPDDR5x-8533 Memory
- CPU+GFX Tile Built Using TSMC’s N3B Node
- SoC Tile Built Using Intel 18A
- Next-Gen NPU 4.0
- Support for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4
- 40% Efficiency Uplift Touted
- 2.5 TFLOPS (12W) | 3.8 TFLOPS (Peak Performance)
It is becoming evident that Intel has significantly revamped the underlying architecture with ARL and LNL . Removing Hyperthreading, thus far, hasn’t actually yielded any noticeable setbacks, even in benchmarks.
