Intel Lunar Lake discussion

[maflynn]

Intel’s Lunar Lake Processors Arriving Q3 2024
Intel ditches hyperthreading for Lunar Lake CPUs
Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple

There seems to be less details on Lunar Lake then AMD's 9000, the biggest information I can find is that it include triple NPUs and be certified for MS' Recall and hyperthreading is disabled on the CPU. I'm going to go out on a limb and Intel will release a desktop SKU that has hyperthreading - they can't help themselves with this stuff. Its reported that the reasoning for disabling it, power and so the increase in performance of the P cores means they can do without it

 

[Bodhitree]

Intel Lunar Lake CPU Significantly Outperforms Current-Gen Gaming Handhelds, Strong IPC Gains & Great Power Figures

Intel's Lunar Lake CPU has been tested by Geekerwan, revealing superb 15W gaming performance against current-gen handhelds.

wccftech.com

Geekerwan did a breakdown of the first Lunar Lake soc’s performing at 15W and 30W compared to other soc’s in that power bracket, and it looks pretty good, better than Snapdragon X, but M3 and M4 are still in a class of their own.

 

[dumastudetto]

It’s so sad intel can’t compete on any of the key pillars of….. power, performance, efficiency, intelligence.

it feels like Apple are generations ahead of Intel at this point.

 

[MacCheetah3]

EDIT: Moved to new thread:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/intel-arrow-lake-discussion.2440982/

 

[mi7chy]

That's Arrow Lake and not Lunar Lake.

 

[MacCheetah3]

That's Arrow Lake and not Lunar Lake.

D’oh! Oops. Well… They are the same architecture. I saw a recent Intel discussion, plus Intel‘s often lake code name, and obviously didn’t think hard enough about it.

 

[MiniApple]

Intel Lunar Lake CPU Significantly Outperforms Current-Gen Gaming Handhelds, Strong IPC Gains & Great Power Figures

Intel's Lunar Lake CPU has been tested by Geekerwan, revealing superb 15W gaming performance against current-gen handhelds.

wccftech.com

Geekerwan did a breakdown of the first Lunar Lake soc’s performing at 15W and 30W compared to other soc’s in that power bracket, and it looks pretty good, better than Snapdragon X, but M3 and M4 are still in a class of their own.

Lunar Lake is awesome for thin, ultra light X86-64 Windows devices - likely also for Linux.

There has been nothing like it so far, in the low power, long battery life range on the Windows side with such a good iGPU and this little watt and heat.

It doesn't matter that Apple is ahead. It simply didn't exist prior and is a welcome competitor to Sandragon's X Elite series that is based on ARM.

 

[dmr727]

Lunar Lake is awesome for thin, ultra light X86-64 Windows devices - likely also for Linux.

It definitely got my attention. I love my M1 MBA, but it and my 5800X3D desktop are a couple generations behind now, and if I could find a thin and light Windows (Linux/Proton?) replacement for the road and jack my 4070 into it via an eGPU enclosure at home, that might be the way to play it.

 

[MiniApple]

the most affordable Lunar Lake device I've come across so far is the Asus ExpertBook P5 for about € 967 / $1037 without Windows, it's about € 900 / $967. It doesn't have the best screen, iGPU and so on, but if you want to plug in an eGPU anyway, it might be an budget conscious option.

I'm sure they'll get a bit cheaper in a few months.
Most start around €1500.

Myself I'm very smitten with the HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 2-1 in Atmospheric Blue.
If I'd need a laptop today, that would be the one I'd like to have.

 

[dmr727]

Myself I'm very smitten with the HP Omnibook Ultra Flip 2-1 in Atmospheric Blue.
If I'd need a laptop today, that would be the one I'd like to have.

Wow, that looks fantastic. And I can upgrade from 512GB to 1TB for only $50 - imagine that!

32GB/1TB version for $1749. That's not terrible at all.