The new Intel Lunar Lake is a merger of performance, power efficiency, and AI features in a single body.
The ongoing Computex 2024 in Taipei is showing the future of tech. While Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X chipsets are hot in computing, Intel has its own new offering.
It’s the Intel Lunar Lake that sets itself completely different from the Meteor Lake. The Lunar Lake is still based on x86 instruction set but it comes with 60% better battery life, 14% faster CPU performance, and 50% higher graphics performance than Meteor Lake.
Not only the Lunar Lake sports higher performance and more efficient power, but it also boasts AI capabilities, thanks to a neural processing unit. The new chip features over 40 NPU TOPS and over 60 GPU TOPS for a total of more than 100 platform TOPS. That should be enough for numerous AI capabilities and beyond.
So, how did Intel do all these? The company went for a complete overhaul and that led to the built-in memory.Â
Why separate the RAM stick if you can have it integrated? It makes the communication of the CPU and RAM more efficient and removes the separate power consumption of a RAM stick from the equation. However, it prevents users from upgrading the RAM using conventional methods.
For the setup, the Intel Lunar Lake has eight cores, four performance cores and four efficiency cores. This setup is a lot simpler than the Meteor Lake processors.
The new Lunar Lake has no hyperthreading and while it sounds bad, the chipset relies on the performance cores. It’s likely as fast as Meteor Lakes’ low-power efficiency cores but only consume 1/3 of the power.
The Intel Lunar Lake chipset isn’t out until the third quarter of this year, during the holiday season. It’s already planned for release across over 20 original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on more than 80 new laptop models.
The Copilot+ experiences will be delivered to Lunar Lake via updates.