Intel Lunar Lake: Up to 50% faster performance than Meteor Lake CPUs

The new processors Intel Lunar Lake they should arrive at the end of this year and seem to promise phenomenal performance compared to the current generation. The latest information relating to the chips from the Mountain View company comes from Bionic_Squash, which revealed the multi-threaded performance of the processors, bringing impressive numbers with comparable energy consumption.
All this “blessing” could be a direct consequence of the new architecture of the cores equipped on the processor. Let's try to understand something more.

Architecture that makes the difference

According to the numbers revealed by Bionic_Squash, the new Intel Lunar Lake processors are able to offer multi-thread performance 50% higher than the current Meteor Lake, with a power consumption of 17 watts: only 2 W more than the 15 W of the 'last generation.
Lunar Lake chips were designed for thinner laptops and are all about performance per watt and even faster NPUs. To achieve these results, the processors will be characterized byLion Cove architecture for P-Core and fromSkymont architecture for E-Coreas well as from one new NPU three times more powerful than the one installed in the current Meteor Lake.

Although the basic TDP should be set to 17 W, it seems that the various manufacturers have pushed for fan-cooled configurations of up to 30 W, features that if confirmed would lead to even higher performance. New features are also expected on the graphics front: the chips should in fact incorporate the new one Xe2 “Battlemage” graphics architecturewhich promises twice the performance of Xe1 “Alchemist”.

Comparing numbers

Testing was done on a 17W Lunar Lake CPU with 8 cores and 8 threads which appears to lack hyper-threading support, compared to a 15W Meteor Lake-U chip with 12 cores and 14 threads.
The most popular benchmarks were used to squeeze the processors, such as Cinebench R23 and Geekbench 5. Bionic_Squash claims that the new Intel-branded CPUs have achieved results 1.5X higher than Meteor Lakewith the 50% multi-threaded performance higher despite a lower thread count.
If the numbers were confirmed, the leap forward made by Intel would be truly impressive.