Lab-Intel operates its transition in portable processors with Arrow Lake H
For all the qualities that we recognize by Lunar Lake processors, it is obviously that Intel's approach suffers on certain aspects in the face of competition. Yes, the X86 architecture has not completely become obsolete on the race for autonomy; A monopoly that Qualcomm and its snapdragon chips will not be able to appropriate, so much even the media slaughter around the Arm chips suggest natural domination. THE chipsets Lunar Lake are efficient, yes, but their sentence is clearly visible when multithreading is requested; By this understand that certain applications require simultaneous work of the processor hearts (think modeling in 3D on blender, for example) suffer in front of tasks single-core.
Multi-coat performance online in sight
Gaps that Intel recognizes and now tries to fill with the new Core Ultra 200 processors, or “Arrow-Lake H”. This new range aims to be the heiress of Meteor Lake fleas, carried on performance, without compromising their energy borrowing. The goal is to offer power and autonomy on a TDP superior to the laptops equipped with Lunar Lake chips. Proof of this is on our test machine, the MSI Prestige 16 Ai Evo Team of the Core Ultra 9 28h (6 p-cores, 8 e-cores and 2 cores with low energy efficiency at a maximum frequency of 5.4 GHz) and its pace of Base to 45W of TDP, and whose benchmarks mark a real leap in performance compared to the leading generation of mobile processors.
Its performance index places the 285h just behind the monstrous silicon of the MacBook Pro 14 M4 And the Ryzen AI 9,370 HX, one of the most powerful mobile fleas of the AMD mobile offer. However, it is largely placed in front of the ultra 7 258V core (Lunar Lake) present in theAsus Zenbook S 14 And the Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake) of the MSI Prestige 16 Ai Evo – as expected after the announcements of the Blue team.
The results of our performance benchmarks on Cinebench show a very marked evolution on the multithreading. Solicited in unison, the 16 cores of the 285h allow him to take the lead in the face of the other laptops of our comparison – including AMD Ryzen 9 AI 365 also embedded in another model of the MSI Prestige 16 Ai Evo. The same goes for Geekbench, which shows a clear advance on multicoose results for the Arrow Lake H chip.
The concrete results in applications nevertheless bring more nuances to these previous benchmarks. The M4 of the MacBook Pro 14, among other things, retains an advance on the rendering of images via Blender or the photo processing on Photoshop – a strangely chipped task on the Intel chip. The latter is nevertheless much more competitive on video export in 4K via Premiere Pro. Same observation on the side of video encoding on Handbrake, two tasks sent quickly and without problem – which makes it an interesting choice for punctual creatives. It is the logical result of a maximum power envelope of 115W, much more generous than that of the Lunar Lake chips, aligning with that of the Meteor Lake generation for a much more important power.
What about the 8 Xe2 cores of graphic power in application use? Faced with the ultra 7 258V core, the difference is clear in the processing and export of video on the Adobe suite … but it is struggling on the rendering of 3D images via Blender, even with up to date pilots . The 285h chip is also widely distant by the MacBook Pro 14 and its M4 processor. Unsurprisingly, as Apple's solution is practically unequaled on the laptops market without dedicated graphics card.
Background
As we can see, the arrival of Arrow Lake architecture on mobile chipset results in increasing performance … But energy efficiency being an assumed objective of Intel, it would have been surprising not to see an improvement On the autonomy side, strong of the 8 efficiency cores and the 2 cores with low -embedded energy efficiency. Concretely, with almost equal chassis with the ultra 7 155h Core, the 285h marks an improvement of 50 % of the autonomy, with 15 h 25 min on our benchmark (streaming on Netflix in HD, screen brightness fixed at 200 Nits) against 10 h 28 min on the MSI Prestige 16 Ai Evo equipped with a Meteor Lake processor. Arrow Lake-H remains far behind the impressive optimization of the ZenBook S 14 and its ultra 7 258V Core and, always him, the MacBook Pro 14, undisputed leader in our comparison in terms of lifespan.
The sample of our comparison being currently limited to the only model of MSI Prestige 16 Ai Evo, we must still wait for the arrival of other laptop models before identifying a significant trend for Arrow Lake H architecture. These first results point to the right direction – that of a happy medium between performance and energy efficiency, two needs that Intenl seemed to have trouble reconciling with its two generations of successive mobile processors. This is however where (probably) will end (probably) the evolution of Arrow Lake H architecture-a transition before the arrival of the Arrow Lake HX chips, much more efficient, but also (and above all) of Panther Lake, The next generation of Node Intel 18 which will clear the future of the factories of the Blue teamand its crazy manufacture ambitions in-house. Wait and See.
