Intel Lunar Lake “Core Ultra 200V” CPU Benchmarks Allegedly Leak: 17W & 30W CPU/GPU Performance, Power Explored

New benchmarks of Intel's Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" CPU have been leaked, exploring the performance & power characteristics of the chip.

The latest numbers come from @jaykihn0 who has previously revealed the entire "Alleged" Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU lineup. His latest benchmarks cover the performance & power aspects of an undisclosed Intel Lunar Lake CPU.

The Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPUs offer a very similar compute tile configuration with four P-Cores based on the Lion Cove core architecture and four LP-E cores based on the Skymont core architecture.

There's only one SKU that ships with a PL1/PL2 TDP rating of 30W and that's the top Core Ultra 9 288V since this chip can be configured between 17W/30W, it's easy to say that it's not the flagship. Other major differences include different cache and iGPU configurations with the Core Ultra 7 chips featuring 12 MB cache and Arc 140V iGPUs while the Core Ultra 5 chips come with 8 MB cache and Arc 130V iGPUs. Besides these, the clock speeds are slightly different for each SKU but since we are looking at a 16 GB LPDDR5x-8533 configuration, we can conclude that it is one of the four SKUs (266V/256V/236V/226V).

With that out of the way, let's focus on the benchmarks posted by the user which he states are still "preliminary". First up, we have a performance comparison across various tests between the 17W & the 30W power limits. Do keep in mind that this is the same chip, just that the full 30W PL is being used for the second set of benchmarks.

Starting with 3DMark Time Spy, the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" CPU scores 3438 points at 17W and 4151 points at 30W. That's a 20% performance improvement for a 76% higher TDP. It's not mentioned what score are we looking at as this can either be the overall score or the graphics score. If this is the graphics score, then Lunar Lake's Xe2 iGPU at 30W is quite the deal, with performance figures almost on par with the Radeon 890M at its full 54W configuration and the 17W configuration sits ahead of the Radeon 780M (54W).

Next up, we have the Wildlife Extreme Unlimited benchmark where the Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU scores 6185 points at 17W and 7561 points at 30W, marking a 22.2% performance uplift. This is an easy benchmark since the overall score is primarily based on the graphics score. Here, we once again see that the Lunar Lake Xe2 iGPU at 30W tops the iGPU chart but we are missing the numbers for the Radeon 890M/880M iGPU. Still, it's an impressive score and a very good uplift over the current-gen iGPU offerings.

These are the only two GPU-specific benchmarks tested by the user. Next up, we have a whole list of CPU-intensive tests which start with Cinebench. The specific version is not mentioned but based on the scores, it looks like Cinebench R23 is being used since the score is too high for the new R24 version. The 17W Intel Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU scored 8182 points here while the 30W config scored 10,212 points, a 25% uplift.

For Crossmark, Geekbench 5, WebXPRT4, and Speedometer, the performance between the 17W and 30W configurations is nearly identical. We also don't know if the numbers somehow got mixed up because in GB5.4, the 17W config scores better than the 30W config. So yeah, a word of caution to take these numbers with a grain of salt but let's move over to the next segment which explores the power figures.

For the power numbers, we see a comparison between the 17W Lunar Lake "Core Ultra 200V" CPU and the current-gen Core Ultra 7 165U (LPDDR5-7467 32 GB) chip at 15W (Base Power). Here, the Lunar Lake chip at 17 Watts with the "Best Power Efficiency Mode" scores a 45% higher efficiency across all test cases and the "Balanced Mode" config is around 441% more efficient. So really good results but once again, these numbers might be based on engineering samples, and performance figures can vary a lot between these and the final retail chips.

AMD has a strong Zen 5 portfolio coming out next month while Lunar Lake starts shipping in retail in September so Intel needs to fine-tune its next-gen thin and light solutions so that it has a fighting chance against a product that's almost as performant and has showcased some great efficiency figures.

News Source: Many thanks to @jaykihn0 for the tip!