Intel’s upcoming Core Ultra 9 288V mobile processor has been put to the test in Geekbench 6, gaining a slight advantage over Ultra 7 268V. This chip is also fairly efficient compared to AMD’s offerings.
Spotted on Geekbench 6’s database, the Core Ultra 9 288V Lunar Lake CPU delivered 2,790 points in the single-core test and 11,048 points in multi-core. This puts it above AMD’s 35W Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and 55W Ryzen 9 7945HX3D in single-core, with multi-core performance slightly behind the Ryzen 9 7940HS and its eight Zen 4 cores at 45W. In other words, Core Ultra 9 288V seems to be a fairly performant chip that doesn’t leave efficiency on the sidewalk.
This performance is the combined result of four P cores plus four LP-E cores clocked at 3.3GHz base and 5.1GHz boost – 3.7GHz boost on the LP-E cores. While not considered in this test, Ultra 9 288V comes equipped with an Arc 140V Battlemage iGPU clocked at 2.05GHz, delivering graphics performance closer to a dedicated GeForce GTX 1650 GPU. All of this sits on the same package alongside up to 32GB of LPDDR5X-8533.
The difference between it and Ultra 7 268V, which is next in line, is the base power target or LP1, which is set to 30W, just like the maximum 30W LP2. The rest of the lineup runs instead at a reduced PL1 of 17W, which may result in lower performance on sustained workloads. That said, the latter should also run cooler as the machine would have less heat to dissipate. This is undoubtedly a great progression from Meteor Lake’s 57W turbo.
These Lunar Lake mobile chips are also said to reach 120 TOPS for AI tasks such as Microsoft’s Windows Copilot+. Lastly, these tests were conducted on an MSI Prestige 13 AI EVO (A2VMG) laptop.
The Intel Core Ultra 9 288V and its Lunar Lake siblings are expected to launch in September inside thin and light laptops – and maybe gaming handhelds.
