Energy efficiency is also significantly better
The announcement of Intel Core Ultra processors of the Meteor Lake generation will take place in a week, but today test results for the Core Ultra 7 155H have hit the Internet.
There are few tests yet, but they still give some idea about the new CPU. For example, in different versions of Cinebench the new Intel processor behaves differently. But if you focus on the latest version of the R23, the new product is slightly ahead of the Core i5-13500H and more noticeably ahead of the Ryzen 7 7840HS. There is also the result of the Core Ultra 5 125H, which has two larger cores less than the older model, and the result of this processor is the lowest, although it lags behind the AMD solution only slightly.
Recall that the Core Ultra 7 155H has six large and eight small cores, as well as two small cores in the SoC, but it is not yet clear whether they work in such tasks. For comparison, the Core i5-13500H has four large and eight small cores. TDP in the same order is 28 and 45 W.
That is, it turns out that the new processor, with one and a half times more large cores and approximately the same frequencies, provides approximately the same level of performance as the Core i5-13500H. And the Core Ultra 5 125H, with the same number of cores, is already noticeably behind. The TDP of the new products is significantly lower, and the new technical process should lead to lower consumption in reality, and not on paper, but the performance is not at all impressive yet, and Meteor Lake relies on new architectures for both large and small cores.  ;
There is also a result in 3DMark Time Spy. The Core Ultra 7 155H scores 3077 points, which is identical to the Arc A350M discrete mobile graphics card, which has fewer Xe cores but a higher TDP. The Radeon 780M, which currently holds the title of the most productive iGPU on the x86-compatible consumer processor market, lags behind Intel's new product by about 14%, which is not critical, but very noticeable.
But the first tests of autonomy show that the Ryzen 7040 with their 4 nm process technology is better than the new Intel CPUs with their Intel 4 process technology, and the difference is quite noticeable.
Of course, we should wait for more extensive tests after the processors are released, but for now it looks like Meteor Lake will offer better battery life and a better iGPU than Raptor Lake processors in similar configurations, but the performance will be about the same .