Intel's Lunar Lake is said to have up to almost 50 percent more multithreading performance in Geekbench and Cinebench. At least that's what the rumor mill says. Compare to Meteor Lake U and Lunar Lake should only have a slightly higher TDP. The statement is particularly interesting because – as we reported – Intel apparently wants to separate itself from Hyper Threading from Arrow Lake onwards.
The comparison here takes place in the Ultrabook segment, but if Intel can preserve these architectural changes for desktop systems as well, things could get interesting. To be fair, this isn't a completely one-to-one comparison: Meteor Lake U is a 2+8+2 configuration, while Lunar Lake will probably be a 4+4 configuration. Please note, according to the current rumors, without hyperthreading and without the 2 LPE cores, which will probably also disappear. One of the reasons why Lunar Lake gets 4 P cores could be the HT off. In order to do justice to those in the narrow TDP window, 8 E-cores are deleted, the 2 LPE cores are removed and process and architectural improvements are made to get 17 instead of 15 watts.
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For gamers, the focus is certainly on preserving this result, because as controversial as Hyper Threading is in performance evaluation (sometimes it does more harm than good), Intel continues to lose touch with AMD in purely quantitative terms. With Ryzen the fun only really begins with 8 (P) cores, while with Intel's ring bus system it's already over. So the performance has to come from somewhere else.
Benchmarks like Cinebench and Geekbench also scale relatively well with more threads, but even if 25 percent are left in a practical scenario, that would be a notable increase. If Hyper Threading really ends at Arrow Lake, Intel will definitely have thought about how to deal with it.