The next generation of Lunar Lake CPUs «core ultra» Intel's low-power platform offering coming out in 2024 will feature models with up to 64 EUs based on the cores Battlemage Xe2-LPG for their iGPUs. In addition to that, they are expected to come with a brand new VPU.
It is known that Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake CPUs will use Intel's Alchemist Xe-LPG GPU cores, while Lunar Lake CPUs would be the first to adopt the new Battlemage Xe2-LPG cores. Now, thanks to some new information from the Bionic_Squash leaker, we have more information about the upcoming Lunar Lake CPUs.
Lunar Lake iGPUs will take an efficiency leap compared to previous models
According to the leaked information, the highest-end CPUs in the Intel Lunar Lake family will feature an iGPU core equipped with 64 Xe2 EUs within 8 Xe Cores. That would be a total of 1024 ALUs. That's a lower EU count than the 96 EU Iris Xe GPUs powered by Raptor Lake chips, and also lower than the 128 EU Meteor Lake will feature and the 192 EU powered by Arrow Lake iGPUs.
But herein lies the factor that Lunar Lake is specifically designed to be a low consumption mobile entry level. They are not CPUs designed to offer a large number of Xe or UE cores, nor for desktops.
The Battlemage GPU architecture that Intel's Lunar Lake CPUs will feature should provide a performance boost over Alchemist. Differences in the number of cores will be offset by improvements in the architecture. With which, in general, it should give a more or less similar entry-level performance, but consuming less, given the series of CPUs in which they would be introduced with such a small number. And it is that low consumption laptops ask above all that the battery last much longer, and it is a field in which the iGPU asks that at most it can move multimedia and some games with simple graphics.
Source: Wccftech
