Geekbenched: Intel’s Supposed Flagship “Panther Lake-H” Ultra 9 386H Chip
An interesting Intel Core Ultra 9 386H mobile processor has appeared on Geekbench Browser, as noted by those who woke up early. Today’s reports have concentrated on specifics generated by an “Acer Predator PHN16S-I51” test model; likely a next-generation Helios gaming laptop. The brave system—featuring 64 GB of memory—was tested with Geekbench 6.50, operating on a Windows 11 Pro 64-bit OS along with a Balanced power plan. At the beginning of this month, details about fundamental frequencies and core counts were revealed: 4 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores, 4 LPE-Cores. Currently, this alleged 16-core engineering sample (ES) has achieved remarkable single and multicore scores: 2849 and 15434 (respectively). As per Notebookcheck, this information positions the Ultra 9 386H ES chip slightly above the performance level of Team Blue’s latest-generation “Arrow Lake-H” Core Ultra 9 285H APU.
Importantly, this upcoming high-end component slightly outperforms AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” SoC in single-core performance. Team Red’s mobile 16-core Zen 5 flagship continues to lead the multicore rankings. Intel’s Core Ultra 300 series is set for an official unveiling at CES 2026, but numerous leaks have revealed various pre-launch information. Toward the end of last week, images of a supposed Core Ultra 3 “Panther Lake-H” qualification sample surfaced online, together with CPU-Z-generated diagnostics
