Intel Core Ultra 9 288V, Flagship Lunar Lake CPU, Benchmarks Leak: Faster In Single-Core At 30W Versus Similar TDP Ryzen AI 300

Intel's flagship Lunar Lake CPU, the Core Ultra 9 288V, has been tested in Geekbench 6 and shows strong single-core performance in a low-power design.

Intel Lunar Lake, Core Ultra 9 288V, CPU Showcases Strong Single-Core Performance For A Low-Power Design

The Intel Lunar Lake lineup will be launching in two months in September and will be aimed at the Thin & Light laptop segment. The upcoming lineup will feature brand new technologies such as the first debut of the Lion Cove P-Cores, Skymont LP-E cores, & Xe2 GPU cores along with a powerful NPU offering up to 48 TOPS and an accumulated platform performance of up to 120 AI TOPS. The chips will also mark the beginning of Intel's "Copilot+" PCs.

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Starting with the specifications, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V will be the flagship CPU offering within the family, featuring 8 cores and 8 threads. These include 4 P-Cores and 4 LP-E cores a base clock of 3.3 GHz with up to 5.1 GHz P-Core and 3.7 GHz E-Core boost clocks. The CPU is equipped with 12 MB of cache and comes in 30W PL1/PL2 flavors. This is much lower than the existing Meteor Lake lineup which can feature up to 57W MTP.

In addition to the core specifications, the Lunar Lake flagship comes with an Arc 140V GPU running at 2.05 GHz. This new GPU is based on the Battlemage graphics architecture. The chip also features 32 GB (dual-rank) on-package LPDDR5x memory clocked at 8533 MT/s. The NPU offers 48 TOPs and combined with the GPU, you get 115 TOPS plus 5 TOPS from the CPU.

Coming to the performance, the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V "Lunar Lake" CPU scores up to 2901 points in single-core performance and up to 11,408 points in multi-core performance. The lowest scores are 2790 points in single-core and 9596 points in multi-core. The performance was evaluated on an MSI Prestige 13 AI EVO "A2VMG" laptop and the following is how the maximum performance