This is also with a smaller number of cores
Intel Lunar Lake processors will be deprived of Hyper-Threading support, according to currently available information. Despite this, judging by the latest leaks, they will be much faster than Meteor Lake.
Insider Bionic_Squash claims that in multi-threaded mode, a 17 W Lunar Lake processor in Cinebench and Geekbench will be about one and a half times more productive than a 15 W Meteor Lake-U. At the same time, large Meteor Lake cores have support for Hyper-Threading.
True, unfortunately, it is not specified which CPUs are being compared, because, let us recall, the maximum configuration of Lunar Lake — these are just four large and four small cores. However, most likely, we are talking about the top-end Meteor Lake-U and the top-end Lunar Lake. And then in the first case we are talking about a processor with two large cores, eight small ones and two more small ones in the SoC. Then it turns out that we are talking about an eight-core and eight-thread Lunar Lake CPU and a 10-core (2 small cores in the SoC still work separately) and 12-thread Meteor Lake-U.
Recall that Arrow Lake supposedly will also not have hyperthreading, that is, Intel is going to completely abandon it.
Insider Bionic_Squash previously shared Intel documents from upcoming presentations and described the names of Meteor Lake CPUs before their announcement.