Intel Lunar Lake CPUs are 2x more efficient than Meteor Lake

Intel Lunar Lake processors, the Core Ultra 200V, are among us, available in selected notebooks on the global market. According to Intel, these SKUs deliver “exceptional efficiency” compared to their competitors. Regarding Meteor Lake CPUs, the performance improvement per watt in games is up to 2 times.

Energy efficiency is Intel’s claim when it announces its Lunar Lake CPUs. Comparing a Core Ultra 9 288V with an Ultra 7 165H in games, the newer CPU delivers between 32 and 68% more performance, and between 11 and 35% less power consumption, depending on the title.

In terms of productivity, the top-of-the-line Lunar Lake SKU is capable of delivering up to 52% less power consumption compared to the Meteor Lake CPU mentioned above. When browsing the internet, the Core Ultra 9 288V is up to 34% more efficient, for example.

Intel Lunar Lake Efficiency

Compared to its rivals, more specifically the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1E-80-100 and the AMD Ryzen AI HX 370, the Core Ultra 9 288V is capable of delivering around 4 hours more (14h) of battery life during productivity work. In video calls on Microsoft Teams, there is an advantage, but it is less than an hour.

Intel Core Lunar Lake processors feature efficient cores (Skymont) and performance cores (Lion Cove). Something that marks the new generation is the absence of Hyper-Threading technology for a better performance per die area ratio while using less energy.

In a simulation to show what it would be like if the Core Ultra 200V used the technology, there would be a 5% drop in the performance/energy ratio, 15% less performance per area, and the final ratio involving all these aspects would result in 15% less performance. In the final version of the product, this gain is 30%.

This change was in favor of the efficiency of Intel Lunar Lake processors which, even removing a technology that has always been known for increasing the performance of the company’s CPUs, can now deliver even more performance.

Another change in Intel’s new mobile processors, compared to the Meteor Lake generation, is the removal of the LPE cores, which are focused on really basic tasks and are the most efficient. This happens because the Skymont cores have reached a level of efficiency that makes the use of these LPE cores unnecessary.

Intel Lunar Lake mobile processors are already available in notebooks from ASUS, MSI, Samsung, Acer, LG and Dell in select models. Availability in more models will be expanded in the future.