What Intel is claiming about the new Core Ultra 200V laptop lineup: Nine answers to good things come to laptop buyers who wait, or what Intel can come to?
Do good things come to laptop buyers who wait? Intel reveals nine answers to the question of what it knows about the new Core Ultra 200V lineup which it says can meet or beat the Strix Point laptop chips in almost every way.
Dell has just just released a new version of its flagship XPS 13 laptop, which is basically the same as the current model, with the addition of a 55 watt-hour battery. And yet, Dell says it now gets up to 26 hours of 1080p Netflix streaming at 150 nits of brightness, up from 18 hours previously.
It is a 44 percent improvement, which is a huge leap for Intel. (Never mind that the Qualcomm version of the XPS 13 quotes a slightly longer life of up to 27 hours.)
That does not include using Intel’s XeSS upscaling. The company believes that even ray-traced games are within reach of its integratedGPU, like Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which plays at 66 frames per second. The resolution and graphical settings for the claims were not provided by Intel.
What’s the cost of an 8-core notebook compared to Intel’s 9 288V and 7 258V CPUs?
These laptops should have good baked-in connections such as wi-fi, dvd, andusb-C, as well as at least two Thunderbolt 4 ports and up to three 4K monitors.
Every one of Intel’s nine Core Ultra 200V chips has just eight CPU cores, eight CPU threads, a maximum of eight GPU cores, and up to 32GB of RAM, with no way to add more in the future. One way to improve efficiency was to get rid of separate memory sticks or chips, baking them into the CPUs package instead. Intel also did away with hyperthreading, the technique that let CPU cores run more than one thread.
Remember when Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 meant different numbers of CPU cores and threads? Lunar Lake throws that out the window; it’s got fewer dividing lines than ever.
As you can see, Intel’s flagship Ultra 9 288V has only 300Mhz of clock and 100Mhz of clock max Frequency compared to the Ultra 7 258V which has only 100 MHz of clock and 100Mbps of max Frequency. Can not yet say that!
They may get better while you wait, so you don’t need to jump. Live captions and Windows Studio Effects will be free when the new Copilot Plus features are released in November, but Intel won’t ship with them.
According to Qualcomm’s own internal benchmarks for the new 8-core chips (take with grain of salt), all that means they’re roughly 80 percent as capable as the company’s 12-core chips in the CPU realm, and on-par with the 10-core chips for productivity. But with the 8-core, those graphics scores are predictably cut in half.
Is saving money this way something you want to do? I am sure I could see it for entry-level laptop buyers like you if you’re actually saving $400. That laptop originally cost $1,300 with the 12-core chip, but it’s just $900 with the 8-core, despite featuring the same big 70 watt-hour battery and 3K 120Hz OLED screen. The only other obvious sacrifice is half the storage, as you’ll get 512GB instead of 1TB.
The $1,100 Pro Art PZ13 has a 3K screen, a 70 watt hour battery, and should be available today, as well as the similar $1099 creation laptop, which has a keyboard and stylus support. There is a Dell Latitude 5455 with the new chip that is very similar to the Inspiron, but no pricing.
