Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V Series Is Here to Make Qualcomm and AMD Worry
Intel, ahead of IFA 2024 Berlin, has announced nine Intel Core Ultra 200V (aka Lunar Lake) chips focused on improving performance in premium thin laptops. The Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V series chips will make some PC enthusiasts rethink their recent views of the chipmaker that ‘Intel is falling behind in AI’ after the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite and AMD Ryzen Strix Point. Intel showed off its superiority with the Core Ultra 200V chips at launch, beating both Qualcomm and AMD in most performance and power consumption benchmarks.
The ‘V’ in Intel Core Ultra 200V identifies the new Lunar Lake chip family. OEMs like Acer, Asus, Lenovo and others have already introduced their AI PCs based on the new chip family. Moon Lake chip. In India, laptops offering the new Intel Lunar Lake chips will cost up to ₹1 lakh to ₹1.5 lakh, slim and light design, at least 20 hours of battery life, high-quality display along with support for quality gaming experience. Considering the thin AI laptops available in the market, Qualcomm has a long way to go in terms of casual gaming while Intel’s new Lunar Lake chips support all popular games, beating AMD’s lineup in most performance aspects.
So if you want to buy a premium Windows laptop that is slim and can be your daily workhorse with up to 20 hours of battery life and good gaming performance, make sure it is equipped with an Intel processor with a ‘V’ at the end of the name. The new lineup will be available for purchase starting September 24 from brands like Acer, ASUS, Dell Technologies, HP, Lenovo, LG, MSISamsung and others. All laptops with Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors and running the latest version of Windows are eligible to receive Copilot+ PC features as a free update starting in November. These laptops will have up to 32GB of RAM.
Intel Core Ultra 200V: How does it perform?
Intelligence The Core Ultra 200V CPU has four P cores and four E cores. Intel, with the P cores, focuses on efficient performance, featuring AI-based management, an enhanced memory system, PPA optimizations, and up to 12MB shared L3 cache and a Max Turbo Frequency of 5.1GHz. On the other hand, the E cores are Intel’s most efficient performance architecture, with up to 4MB shared L2 cache and 2x AI throughput from four 128-bit FP & SIMD vectors. The E cores offer a Max Turbo Frequency of up to 3.7GHz.
Intel Arc Graphics has been significantly enhanced in the new Lunar Lake family. The integrated Intel Arc GPU delivers power-efficient DirectX 12 Ultimate performance, leveraging on-package LPDDR memory. The Intel XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) and Intel XMX (XeMatrix eXtensions) AI engines provide enhanced AI upscaling and ray tracing performance for graphics.
The Intel Core Ultra 200V series claims to deliver low-power performance for AI PCs with a total of 120 platform TOPS (tera operations per second) across the central processing unit (CPU), graphics processing unit (GPU), and neural processing unit (NPU). The fourth-generation NPU is said to be up to four times more powerful than the previous generation. The Intel Core Ultra 200V series processors claim up to three times more performance per thread and up to 80 percent more peak performance, with up to 20 hours of battery life in productivity use cases.
