Intel Lunar Lake will be the next generation of processors with extremely low chip consumption for ultra-light notebooks and compact computers. It will retain the hybrid design that we all know it will have a block of high-performance cores and more with high-performance cores, but it will bring very important changes this will mark a turning point in the chip giant’s catalog.

The latest rumors claim that Intel Lunar Lake in its 17-watt version it will have 50% more performance in multithreading than Intel Meteor Lake in its 15-watt version. Interesting, but the most important thing about all this is that it will achieve this, albeit in theory it will not have support for HyperThreading technologywhich is present in the P cores of Meteor Lake processors.

This matches the previous information that also They pointed to the disappearance of this technology in future generations of Intelsomething that makes sense for processors where it is not necessary to have high parallelization capacity, such as ultra-low power CPUs.

Intel Lunar Lake will increase performance per watt and NPU

And it will also feature the Arc Battlemage Xe2-LPG GPU, which will be able to deliver impressive performance for a graphics solution in its class. The graphics core will use TSMC’s 3nm node and the CPU block is expected to be manufactured on an Intel 20A or Intel 18A node, because we still have no confirmation in this regard.

Continuing with the CPUs, the high-end Intel Lunar Lake configurations will adopt a “4 + 4” design, that is, they will have 4 high-performance P cores based on Lion Cove architecture and 4 highly efficient cores E based Skymont architecture. Intel Lunar Lake will contain CPU, GPU, I/O and SOC blocks and will also integrate LPDDRx memory, making them a truly complete system.

The NPU will reappear and according to Intel itself triples performance compared to a solution using Meteor Lake. This makes perfect sense as Intel is betting heavily on AI and this move is a natural step within said bet.

As I said before, Intel Lunar Lake won’t support HyperThreading, but that won’t be a problem because ultra-low-power processors aren’t designed to handle parallelization-intensive workloads, and because in this case Already 8 physical cores put us in an optimal position. Its TDP will be configurable, ranging from 17 watts for single-fan ultraportables to 30 watts for those with more powerful cooling systems.

Release and Availability

Intel has confirmed that the launch of Lunar Lake will take place at the end of 2024although it is very likely that its availability will be very limited during this first phase and that it will not become generally available until early 2025. It will be interesting to see what Intel is able to achieve with these new architectures and how the new processors behave despite the lack of HyperThreading.

MTL-U (15w) -> LNL (17w)
Almost 1.5x increase in MT performance (CB23, GB 5.4.5)

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