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Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks
14.12.2023 - 15:18 / pcgamer.com
Intel has taken the wraps off its new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra laptop CPUs, and it's aiming these low-power chips squarely at my favourite AMD chip of all time—the Ryzen 7 7840U. That's the similarly low-power Zen 4 processor at the heart of the latest Framework 13 mainboard, but also every single non-Valve handheld gaming PC that was released this year.
These are the first processors based on the Intel 4 (née Intel 7nm) production process, and come with the company's innovative tiled design. This mixes chiplets from different production processes and, importantly, from different companies together on top of a base layer which connects them all together.
So yes, this is Intel's first chiplet processor design, and it's split up into the following tiles, as highlighted by Jacob in his Intel Meteor Lake architecture deep dive.
But only one of these tiles is actually using the new Intel 4 lithography, and only one actually manufactured by Intel itself. We've covered the design itself in some depth following Jacob's time out in Malaysia with the team which put these chips together. Suffice to say that these mobile chips have been built with efficiency in mind first and foremost, but also with one eye on gaming performance, too, because Intel's touting a performance boost over its previous generation graphics of 2x.
Interestingly, that doubling of frame rates is based on the best game of 2023, Baldur's Gate 3, which is certainly a welcome improvement. But, as you might expect from an Arc iGPU, its performance does definitely vary on a per-game basis. GTA V, for example, will only see a 9% frame rate boost over the previous generation of Intel laptop graphics.
But it's the relative performance against the mighty AMD chip which grabbed my attention. We've seen leaked Meteor Lake 3DMark numbers, which looked good, but now we have actual game data. According to Intel's latest benchmarks (from testing on December 13 across 33 different games), Intel's claiming a 10% average performance lead over the Ryzen 7 7840U and its 780M RDNA 3 integrated graphics component.
The first thing to note is that this is based upon the current top Core Ultra 7 165H chip, which has the full complement of eight Xe cores running at 2.3GHz Max, and with it running at a 32W power limit. The AMD chip, on the other hand, is running at its lower 28W standard.
The 70% delta for Dying Light 2—a game Jacob highlighted as performing incredibly well on Meteor Lake—is a definite outlier here, and likely skews that average frame rate boost number quite heavily. But there are still some decent wins in there in the likes of The Witcher 3 at 18% and Resident Evil Village at 11%, though it's not a unanimous victory for Intel across the board.
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