Intel and power savings? What a time to be alive
Intel doing well with integrated graphics? My god the times are changing. In a good way
Where is the biggest revenue source for laptops? Its office workers who works mainly in Office and cloud native apps. I think Intel has got the right balance here, so they have saved themselves for the time being. Looking at the improvements over the last year I think they are on track for a great comeback.
Damn, cyberunk on medium above full hd with average fps above 60 on an integrated card?! Glorious age to be living in, I'm really looking forward to not having to get a dedicated gpu anymore in a couple years.
Honestly, with everyone focusing on being more battery efficient, i'm less concerned with seeing how these computers last on battery life. What I do want to see is how much battery drain there is when in standby mode now more than anything else. Being able to close the lid of my laptop, walk away for a day and come back and not have my battery be dead or close to dead and be able to use it off the charger is more important to me.
It's an incredible win for Intel, great battery life , better compatibility for apps, far better gaming performance, solid price point.
I would have liked to see some CPU benchmarks on the balanced modes, pushing those chips to 28 or 30W takes them out of their sweet spot so comparisons against their lower power modes especially in MT benchmarks would have been an interesting comparison.
This shows how amazing intel quicksync decoders are. The best for video editing.
It really amazes me how people, especially in the tech space, DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW PERCENTAGES WORK. Processor 258v has 8 total threads. Processor 155h has 22 toal threads. You want to round down to 20 threads for easy math, ok, that means the 155h has 150% more threads, NOT 250% more. 100% more means DOUBLE, when you are talking about more, you don't start at 100%. If you were making 8$ an hr and your pay increases 100%, you are now making $16 an hr., or double. This isn't hard. 250% would be 3.5x. 200% and 2x are not the same thing.IDK if this is a failure of the school system or what.
Having had my Meteor Lake laptop now for 6+ months, I can definitely say the insane number of cores and threads isn't needed. I might prefer a 4+4 configuration if that means better battery life and better responsiveness. Sometimes the thing feels like a slug because the power profile often limits the cores to 800mhz, and I hate how laggy everything feels when it's in that mode. But if I enable the higher power profiles for a responsive experience, I get much higher fan noise. Honestly I might even prefer a smaller configuration like 2+4 with a cut-down GPU for everyday office use.
Still crazy to see M3 running most of these tests on 11W.. If only they add a 90Wh battery we will really get a two days battery. But good job Intel for finally getting something good for laptops!
Thanks for the video and just ordered the Zenbook S14.
Lunar Lake seems like Intel are doing an Apple Silicon competitor for thin and lights. Which is not a bad idea.
Why are MacBooks being exempted from those gaming tests you're running? If they can't run it - they should appear there with "DNS"/"DNF" or something. You shouldn't reward them for not being able to do certain tasks x86 processors can easily do.
A few days ago, I bought the new Asus TUF A14 (Ryzen HX 370, 32GB DDR5, RTX 4060) for $1350 on eBay. I could use the extra processing power, but I can TOTALLY see how Lunar Lake will be a new favorite for businesses that mostly use cloud-native apps. I'm just not sure if the value is there for consumers, $1500 is a hard sell. The general public is better off saving $500+ and getting an Intel 155H laptop that performs better and doesn't lose too much in terms of battery life.
Excellent review, thank you folks! Lunar Lake is indeed a right step for Intel in the mobile market segment and great inspiration for the higher tier Intel mobile and desktop CPUs. It's also cool how Intel inspired themselves by the Apple's Mx design with the on package memory. Still when it comes to pure efficiency and performance per Watt Apple's silicon reigns as supreme to all.
1985, 32bit 386's release was timely against 32bit MC68020 competition. 1995, Pentium Pro's release was timely against RISC-based Advanced Computing Environment (ACE).
If this all translates to arrow lake on desktop we are in for a good year.
Cant wait to see benchmarks on ultra 9 288v
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