The race for the highest AI processing performance began with the Meteor Lake generation against rivals from AMD and Qualcomm. With the Lunar Lake SKUs, Intel secures 120 TOPS of processingjoining the main cores, NPU and GPU, delivering more performance than the competition.
Combined with 5 TOPs from the new Skymont and Lion Cove cores, in addition to the Xe2 Battlemage iGPU, which is responsible for most of the AI ​​performance, a Core Ultra 200 SKU can deliver 120 TOPs. This number varies according to the SKU, but Intel guarantees that this performance is related to a high-end CPU.
Intel introduced the first generation of its NPU in 2018. The technology arrived delivering a timid performance compared to what we have today: 0.5 TOPs. It went to 7 TOPs in 2021 with the second generation, 11.5 TOPs with the third generation and now 48 TOPs with Lunar Lake processors.
Intel Lunar Lake NPU Performance
In tests carried out on Geekbench AI, the Skymont and Lion Cove cores do not offer much of an advantage over an AMD Ryzen AI HX 370 and Qualcomm X1E-78-100, but considering the iGPU performance, the advantage over Ryzen is up to 5 times more. With the NPU in action, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V tested outperforms the Snapdragon SKU.
In the main applications involving AI, Intel guarantees an average advantage of 58% compared to a Meteor Lake SKU (Core Ultra 7 155H) and also the Qualcomm chip mentioned above. Intel’s biggest focus in the AI ​​performance comparisons was against the Qualcomm X1E-78-100.
Other changes to the Intel Core Ultra 200V can also be seen in the Skymont and Leon Cove cores, which do not use the Hyper-Threading technology that Intel has used for over 20 years, in addition to the absence of the LPE cores present in Meteor Lake and aimed at very low consumption.
Additionally, Intel Lunar Lake CPUs come with integrated Xe2 graphics that promise to rival even the Radeon 890M, the best mobile iGPU on the market so far.
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.
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Source: https://www.adrenaline.com.br/intel/cpus-intel-lunar-lake-conta-com-a-maior-evolucao-em-npus-da-empresa/
