Intel has introduced their latest series of thin and light laptop processing chips, Intel Lunar Lake during the Computex Taipei event that took place in the middle of this month. Today, Intel has launched a series of processing chips that come with the model name Intel Core Ultra 200V a few days before the IFA event in Berlin, Germany.
Most of the explanations about the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" processing chip we have already explained in the article we wrote before, and we will explain the details that Intel specifically showed at this event.
The first is about Hyperthreading. For the Intel Core Ultra 200V series of processing chips, Intel will no longer use hyperthreading because the performance of this processing chip is finally at a level where laptops do not need it for the tasks they carry out.
The explanation given is that in their tests, the use of multi-threading causes these cores to be less efficient in energy consumption and does not increase the amount of IPC that can be moved.
In fact, one of the main focuses of the launch of the Intel Lunar Lake processing chip comes in terms of the efficiency of electricity and battery consumption, which Intel says far beats competitors from AMD, Qualcomm, and even the previous Intel Meteor Lake processing chip, which Intel say it's twice as efficient as their own previous processing chips.
This is helped by Intel's decision to combine their efficiency core (E-core) with a low power efficiency core (low power E-Core) in a single chip. This helps reduce the load on the processing chip to choose which core is more efficiently used for light tasks.
A number of smaller tasks such as display activation and the use of I/O plugs are assigned to the built-in media and I/O cores, without having to disturb any of the main cores. This further reduces the overall power/battery consumption of a laptop, and further extends the battery life of Lunar Lake laptops.
More interestingly, all these Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU models come with the same number of power cores and threads, which are eight cores and eight threads from the highest Intel Core Ultra 9 288V model up to the Intel Core Ultra 5 266V, with the difference shown from in terms of CPU speed, the amount of built-in LPDDR5X memory (32GB and 16GB) and also the use of the new Intel Arc Xe2 graphics processing chip.
According to Intel, adding more than eight cores and power threads for each unit does not do any good especially for a thin and light laptop, and this is the reason why all Intel Lunar Lake SKUs have that number of cores, and the overall TDP from 9W to 33W only.
Intel has also given new details about the use of the Intel Xe2 processing chip or better known as BattleMage together with the Lunar Lake processing chip. Not many details were known about it before, but at their launch event, but now they have shown a number of new details about the performance of this latest graphics chip.
Through preliminary tests carried out by Intel itself, they say that gaming using a thin and light laptop is no longer a fantasy, where they can run modern games at Full HD resolution and medium settings without problems. Among the computer games we saw included DoTA 2 and F1 2024.
Speaking of graphics support, Intel also says that so far, Intel's super-sampling technology, namely Intel XeSS currently supports more than 120 modern computer games, and can be leveraged on Intel Lunar Lake laptops when they are launched later.
Apart from gaming, Intel also says that their built-in media core and Intel Xe2 graphics chip supports various video codecs such as H.265, H.266, VC9 and so on for more efficient video decoding.
Another part that Intel emphasized with the development of this Intel Core Ultra 200V processing chip is battery life. When tested with the UL Procyon Office productivity program benchmarks, the laptop recorded a battery life of 20 hours, while with the Microsoft Teams teleconferencing program test with WiFi installed, it could last for around 10-11 hours.
Intel also expects that computer manufacturers will introduce a large number of laptop models powered by Intel Core Ultra 200V processing chips soon, all of which will come with thin and light designs.