Samsung Galaxy Book 4 Lineup Leak: Up To Intel Core Ultra 9 185H CPU & NVIDIA RTX GPUs

Samsung's next-gen Galaxy Book 4 lineup which includes a range of Intel Meteor Lake & Raptor Lake CPU options with NVIDIA discrete graphics has been leaked by WindowsReport.

Just a few hours after the first retail listings of Intel's Meteor Lake laptops within the US, Windows Report has leaked out Samsung's next-gen Galaxy Book 4 lineup of laptops which will come in a full range of configurations featuring a choice of 1st Gen Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" or the simple Core "Raptor Lake Refresh" CPUs. These laptops will be providing the latest hardware capabilities while the Meteor Lake chips will be powering the full range of AI PCs from Samsung.

Starting with the details, the Samsung Galaxy Book 4 lineup will include a total of five models. The models include the standard Galaxy Book 4, the 360, the Pro, the Pro 360, and the Ultra. Just as we had previously reported, Intel will be combining its Meteor Lake and Raptor Lake families under the same 1st Gen Core series but Meteor Lake gets the "Ultra" branding due to its premium nature as it leverages from a brand new architecture and more powerful integrated graphics in the form of the Arc series.

The report also highlights that the Samsung Galaxy Book lineup would continue to offer Intel CPUs until Qualcomm's Oryon CPUs come out which is when we would start to see them shift to the Arm-based architecture for Windows PCs. With that said, the first of these laptops is expected to retail in early 2024 which makes sense considering one of the configurations shouldn't be out by any PC vendor until Q1 2024.

This particular configuration is the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H which is supposed to be the flagship Meteor Lake CPU, offering up to 16 cores, 24 threads, and up to 5.1 GHz clock speeds with 24 MB cache (L3). We previously reported that Intel would first focus on offering Core Ultra 7 & Core Ultra 5 SKUs for laptops before its partners can offer the higher-end Core Ultra 9 CPUs.

Also, the prices of the first laptops show why there's still a need to refresh the Raptor Lake lineup under the 1st Gen Core banner. The prices of Meteor Lake CPUs will be aimed at the premium segment so Intel still wants something new to be offered to mainstream and budget audiences and that's where the refresh comes in. Also, it looks like only high-end models will offer discrete GPUs while the mainstream Core Ultra 7 and Core Ultra 5 laptops will mostly stick to the integrated GPU which will be more than capable of graphics workloads such as gaming and the NPU onboard the Meteor Lake chips will be essentially helpful in powering AI tasks on the latest Windows operating systems.

The same is the case with the entry-level Galaxy Book 4 designs which feature integrated GPUs but that has been the case for a few generations now. A discrete GPU makes more sense with the older CPU lineup as they lack the same level of graphics prowess as the new Arc chips. A dedicated GPU will make more sense there.

The first Intel Meteor Lake CPUs are expected to be available worldwide during the middle of December this year so stay tuned for more information.

You can check out the specifications in the detailed chart below which is courtesy of Windows Report: