Intel Core Ultra 7 258V “Lunar Lake” CPU Early Tests Reveal Arc 140V “Xe2” iGPU With Performance On Par GTX 1650

Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" CPU has been tested in the Geekbench Vulkan test, revealing the performance of the Arc 140V "Xe2" iGPU.

Intel Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" Graphics Benchmark Leaks Out, Arc 140V "Xe2" On Par With NVIDIA GTX 1650

The first performance benchmarks of Intel's Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" CPU have been leaked in Geekbench 6. The latest benchmark was conducted on an Intel reference evaluation platform for LNL-M chips. This would suggest that the chip is an engineering sample and the power plan was set to "Balanced" mode. The platform was running 32 GB of on-package LPDDR5x memory.

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As for the specifications, the entire Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" lineup leaked out a few days ago. In terms of what the Core Ultra 7 258V CPU has to offer, the chip features 8 cores (4 P-Cores & 4 LP-E cores), 8 threads, a boost clock of up to 4.8 GHz, 12 MB of L3 cache, an integrated Arc 140V iGPU clocked at 1.95 GHz and a TDP of 17W at PL1 and 30W at PL2. The CPU offers a max NPU of 47 TOPS from the NPU and 64 TOPS from the GPU.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 258V "Lunar Lake" CPU was tested within the Geekbench 6 Vulkan test so we can only talk about the iGPU side of things. The Xe2 graphics architecture is aiming to be quite the leap for the blue team, providing a 50% performance bump and a range of new features including faster ray tracing performance. The Arc 140V iGPU scored 31,560 points which puts it in the same ballpark as the AMD Radeon 780M iGPU which is based on the RDNA 3 graphics architecture.

Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs will be competing against the newer Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs which come with the RDNA 3.5 graphics architecture and should deliver faster performance thanks to improvements within the architecture itself and an increase in the number of compute units. Furthermore, the Xe2 Arc