The Lunar Lake processor is radically different from its predecessors. It’s the first of Intel’s “angstrom” generation, fabricated on its 18A process. The processor includes new “Lion Cove” performance cores and “Skymont” efficiency cores, both offering significant performance improvements.
One of the standout features of Lunar Lake is the inclusion of the Xe2 GPU, also known as “Battlemage”. This GPU is expected to deliver 1.5 times the performance of the previous generation. Additionally, the NPU will scale to above 45 TOPS, with total TOPS (GPU+CPU+NPU) scaling above 100 TOPS, with 60 TOPS coming from the GPU alone.
Another major change is the embedding of the DRAM onto the chip package. This means that if you buy a Lunar Lake laptop, you’ll have a choice between 16GB and 32GB of DRAM, but with no option to upgrade it later.
Despite the focus on low power, Lunar Lake does not compromise on performance. It’s designed to outperform Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite by 1.4 times. This is a significant achievement, considering the competition in the market.
Intel’s Lunar Lake is currently in production and is on track to ship in the third quarter. With Lunar Lake, Intel is not just sizing up the performance engines, but also advancing battery life in the biggest way that they’ve done in X86 architecture.
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