At a pre-launch roundtable with HotHardware on Wednesday, Intel revealed various performance details about its upcoming Core “Meteor Lake” mobile processor. It compared it to the current U-segment chips, which are based on the 13th Gen Core “Raptor Lake,” and the AMD Ryzen 7040 “Phoenix,” which is in competition. In these, the company asserts that while its CPU outperforms the Radeon 780M RDNA3 iGPU of the Ryzen 7040 in multi-threaded performance, its next-generation iGPU, based on the Xe-LPG graphics architecture, is significantly outperforming it.

The Core Ultra 7 165H, a middle-of-the-market performance segment part in the 28 W class, was chosen by the company for comparison. This is contrasted with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U and the Core i7-1370P “Raptor Lake.” Additionally, the business introduced the Qualcomm 8cx Gen 3, the quickest Arm chip available that is compatible with Windows. In 23 of the 33 games where the 165H and 7840U were compared, the Intel iGPU was found to have performance advantages over the Radeon 780M ranging from 3% to 70%. Both of them play equally well in one of the games. The Radeon 780M outperforms the Intel Xe-LPG by 2% to 18% in 9 out of 33 games.With 8 Xe cores, or 128 EU (1,024 unified shaders), the 165H’s iGPU is powerful. Twelve RDNA3 compute units (768 stream processors) power the Radeon 780M.

With 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and 2 L-cores (low-power island cores), the Core Ultra 7 165H is a 16-core/22-thread processor. In a set of multi-threaded CPU performance benchmarks, the company compared the chip’s performance to that of the i7-1370P (6P+8E) and the 7840U (8-core). Intel states in its benchmarks that the 165H outperforms the 7840U by an average of 11% and the i7-1370P by 9%, with the latter supposedly outperforming the 7840U by 2%. According to claims, all three chips belong to the same power class and are designed for thin-and-light notebooks.

Additionally, Intel showcased the advantages of power management resulting from the two low-power island cores in the SoC tile of the “Meteor Lake.” These cores receive processing load priority from the processor’s hardware scheduler, which is designed to advance them to the Compute tile’s E-cores and then P-cores based on how well they perform. All background tasks are assigned to the LP island cores when the processor is idle or has very little performance demand, which enables the processor to clock-gate the Compute tile. Power savings as a result of this can range from 8% to 35%. Intel views web browsing and video playback on streaming services as workloads that can be assigned to the LP island cores in order to save power.