Intel Core Extremely 200V collection — codenamed Lunar Lake — was unveiled by the chipmaker on Tuesday forward of the upcoming IFA 2024 occasion. The corporate’s second-generation synthetic intelligence (AI) processors will compete with chipsets from rivals AMD and Qualcomm and Intel claims that they ship a complete of 120 trillion operations per second (TOPS) with assist for a number of AI-accelerated options. Whereas Intel’s first-generation AI chipsets have been the primary to incorporate a neural processing unit (NPU), the Lunar Lake collection processors are the primary from the corporate to succeed in Microsoft’s Copilot+ normal.
Intel Core Extremely 200V Lunar Lake Collection Options
The newly introduced Intel Core Extremely 200V collection (Core Extremely Collection 2) is claimed to be as much as 50 % extra energy environment friendly than Intel’s Core Extremely Collection 1 (Meteor Lake) that was launched final yr. The lineup consists of 9 new laptop computer processors which can be geared up with eight CPU cores and as much as eight GPU cores. These chips drop assist for hyperthreading in change for improved effectivity.
Of the eight CPU cores on the Core Extremely 200V collection, 4 are Lion Cove efficiency cores, whereas the opposite 4 are Skymont effectivity cores. The brand new Core Extremely 5 processors have seven GPU cores, whereas the Core Extremely 7 and 9 CPUs have eight GPU cores. All 9 processors are geared up with as much as 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM.
The brand new Lunar Lake laptop computer processors are additionally the primary to characteristic Intel’s new Xe2 graphics microarchitecture which is claimed to supply as much as 30 % improved graphics efficiency. The corporate claims that its chips supply as much as 68 % higher graphics efficiency than the Snapdragon X Elite chipset from Qualcomm, whereas it’s stated to be 16 % quicker than its closest AMD rival — the Ryzen AI 9 370 HX.
Laptops powered by the brand new Intel Core Extremely 200V collection CPUs will be capable to hook up with as much as three 4K displays whereas the Arc GPU additionally delivers as much as 67 TOPS. The chipmaker says that the Core Extremely Collection 2 chips supply a complete of 120 TOPS throughout the CPU (5 TOPS), GPU (48 TOPS), and NPU (67 TOPS).
Intel Core Extremely 200V collection chips assist Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 (with LE Audio) connectivity, in addition to a Gigabit Ethernet connection. Gadgets with these processors can embrace as much as three Thunderbolt Four ports, six USB 2.0, and two USB 3.Zero ports.
The chipmaker says that apart from the Core Extremely 9 288V variant, all the opposite processors unveiled on Tuesday have a default 17W TDP. The Lunar Lake CPUs are additionally claimed to be 22 % and 10 % quicker than their predecessors at 9W and 17W, respectively. Nonetheless, final yr’s Meteor Lake processors are 6 % quicker than the Core Extremely 200V collection when energy consumption is at 23W.
Intel Core Extremely 200V Lunar Lake Collection Availability
The brand new Intel Core Extremely 200V collection processors shall be out there on greater than 80 laptops from over 20 OEMs in choose markets, in line with the chipmaker. These laptops shall be out there from a variety of manufacturers akin to Acer, Asus, HP, Dell, Lenovo, LG, and MSI beginning on September 24.