Intel Core Ultra 200V “Lunar Lake” Launched: CPU, GPU & AI Leadership Over Qualcomm & AMD, Much Better Battery Life

A new beast is born at Intel in the form of Lunar Lake CPUs, powering the Core Ultra 200V lineup on thin & light platforms and bringing CPU, GPU, and AI leadership with leading performance, and efficiency versus Qualcomm and AMD offerings.

Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" CPUs Bring A Historical Leap To Thin & Light Platforms, Brand New CPU, GPU, AI Cores With Leadership Performance & Efficiency

In our deep dive back at Computex 2024, we detailed the chip itself and its newest Xe2 GPU, both of which are major upgrades over Meteor Lake. Today, Intel is officially lifting the curtains off of the Lunar Lake lineup which is called Core Ultra Processors Series 2 or Core Ultra 200V. Lunar Lake is designed first and primarily for thin and light platforms so let's start with what the chips have on offer and how they compare against the competition as per the official results.

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Thin & Light is a tricky segment, you need to have a chip designed to meet the low-power demand while keeping strong performance and efficiency. You can scale certain chips down to lower TDPs but Intel went a different route. Instead of taking this approach, Intel made a dedicated chip called Lunar Lake which embeds several new technologies that target several segments including gaming, creation, and AI PCs.

For efficiency, Intel made several key energy innovations for Lunar Lake which will play a crucial role for next-gen thin and light platforms. These include:

• Memory on package - Up To 40% reduced PHY power
• Power Management enhancement and integration through Thread Director
• Improved E-Core clusters
• New power delivery architecture for better control, enhanced power utilization
• New 8 MB Memory side cache - Efficiently feeding memory-hungry IPs

Tuning The Cores For Maximum Efficiency & Power Savings

Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" CPUs leverage two types of core