It looks like we've just had our first taste of details for Intel's upcoming "Meteor Lake" laptop CPUs in the form of a new leak, from some insider slides out of Intel. We can expect a bunch of Meteor Lake laptop CPUs to arrive alongside some Raptor Lake Refresh laptop CPUs in the near future.
Intel's leaked presentation includes some details of the CPU core counts of the new Meteor Lake laptop CPUs, as well as the power numbers on them as well. It looks like we'll see a 7W, 9W, 15W, 28W, and 45W variant of the Meteor Lake CPU, all with different core counts starting from 5-9 cores up to 12-14 cores. Lastly, we are told to expect a bigger monster 55W variant in the form of the Raptor Lake Refresh laptop CPU with 14-24 cores.
What can we expect out of Meteor Lake? Intel will be using its latest Xe-LPG architecture which is the same GPU architecture inside of Intel's first graphics card in decades: the Intel Arc A380, which is based on the Alchemist GPU architecture. The difference here is that the Raptor Lake Refresh laptop CPU will use the same GPU cores it has now: limited to 32 GPU units in total.
Intel's new Xe-LPG architecture has advancements in both power and area optimizations, features support for the advanced DirectX 12 Ultimate API, and a hefty 33% increase in graphics core abilities. Not too bad, and a great position for Intel to be in with next-gen laptop CPUs in 2024 and beyond. We're talking about GPU performance from a laptop CPU in the vicinity of the AMD Radeon RX 6400 or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650... which is nothing to complain about from integrated graphics inside of a laptop.
Here's what to expect:
We will know more during Intel's upcoming Innovation Event in September, where we'll find out the final names of the SKUs themselves... and just how much power we can expect in terms of CPU and GPU performance. Not long to go now, folks!
