Intel officially announces the Core Ultra of the Meteor Lake generation

Intel has just officially announced the Meteor Lake generation Intel Core Ultra series of SoCs, focused on AI and energy efficiency. This generation uses the advances used with the hybrid architecture to make new CPUs more energy efficient, since they are designed for the ultralight laptop segment.

News in the Intel Core Ultra Meteor Lake

This generation of notebook processors has been designed to be Intel's most energy-efficient customer processors at launch. They highlight the use of the Intel 4 process, with new performance and efficiency cores, a GPU twice as powerful, and redesigns specialized in Artificial Intelligence.

The new Intel Node 4 allows the top-of-the-line model to have a configuration of six Redwood Cove performance cores, eight Crestmont efficiency cores, two low-power cores, and 22 threads. The low-power cores are CPU cores designed to meet the needs of workloads related to applications that use some type of artificial intelligence , which typically run constantly in the background. This top-of-the-line model reaches Turbo frequencies of up to 5,1 GHz.

In terms of graphics, it includes an Arc GPU with up to 8 Xe cores and a dedicated NPU with n-Stream Execution. Compared to the i7-1370P, in a 20W configuration, a 100% performance gain is noticeable in Baldur's Gate III, winner of Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2023 , and a 95% gain in Resident Evil Village. According to their tests in at least 18 leading games, an MSI Prestige offers improved performance, partly thanks to Intel XeSS , which also reduces power consumption and rendering time with lower GPU usage.

In the RAM section for the SoC, they allow up to 64 GB of LPDDR5(x)-7467 and 96 GB of DDR5-5600. It is fully compatible with Thunderbolt 4, and has WiFi 6E integrated in the connectivity section.

A generation thinking about energy efficiency

To demonstrate its energy efficiency, power consumption while using Netflix was reduced by 25% on the Intel Core i7 165H, compared to the Intel Core i7-1370P . When compared to the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U , the same Intel Core i7 165H consumes an average of 79% less power in the same tasks when running in the same configuration of a 28W ultrathin notebook. While the difference is only 7% in Microsoft Teams 3x3 and web browsing, the difference is over 44% for Netflix streaming and local video playback, and leaving the Windows desktop idle consumes 79% less power.

In the field of AI, they demonstrated how the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H outperforms the Ryzen 7 7840U in applications such as Wondershare Filmora, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Adobe Lightroom, Stable Diffusion A1111, and GIMP Stable Diffusion, by significant margins in most cases. DaVinci Resolve is the only example where the improvement over the AMD APU is smaller, with only about 20% greater efficiency. This Meteor Lake series will be compatible with at least 80 generative AI models , along with other quantization tools, frameworks, and more commercially oriented applications.

List of Intel Core Meteor Lake CPUs

The following models will be available from December 14, 2023, for online order in partner stores and manufacturer websites.

Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

• Cores: 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 22
• Cache: 24 MB
• Frequency: 5,0 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

• Cores: 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 22
• Cache: 24 MB
• Frequency: 4,8 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 7 135H

• Cores: 4 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 22
• Cache: 18 MB
• Frequency: 4,6 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 7 125H

• Cores: 4 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 22
• Cache: 18 MB
• Frequency: 4,5 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 7 165U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,9 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 5 155U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,8 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,4 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,3 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

The following models will be available sometime in the first quarter of 2024.

Intel Core Ultra 9 185H

• Cores: 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 22
• Cache: 24 MB
• Frequency: 5,1 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 96 GB of DDR5-5600 and 64 GB of LPDDR5/x-7467

Intel Core Ultra 7 164U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,8 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 64GB LPDDR5/x-6400

Intel Core Ultra 7 134U

• Cores: 2 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power cores
• Threads: 14
• Cache: 12 MB
• Frequency: 4,4 GHz
• Integrated Graphics: Yes
• RAM: 64GB LPDDR5/x-6400