In addition to the new family of Arrow Lake desktop hardware, Intel today also provided some information about its upcoming Arrow Lake H mobile chips for high-performance laptops. First, these aren’t expected to arrive until the first quarter of 2025, but Intel says it’s offering powerful new Xe GPUs with XMX, so it might be worth the wait. Thanks to this upgrade, the GPU alone delivers 4x better AI workload processing compared to previous chips, while delivering 2x ray tracing performance and 2x more cache (8MB L2).
But it’s worth noting that these new chips still lag behind the company’s less powerful Lunar Lake processors when it comes to NPU and overall AI TOPS (tera operations per second) numbers. That’s it. Arrow Lake H’s NPU reaches 13 TOPS, the new GPU reaches 77 TOPS, and the CPU delivers 9 TOPS. In total, they provide up to 99 TOPS of performance. Lunar Lake, on the other hand, features 48 TOPS of NPU and up to 120 TOPS of AI performance across the system.
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This difference is understandable when you consider the intended use of these chips. Lunar Lake is primarily aimed at ultraportables and slim workstations, while Arrow Lake H chips are aimed at demanding notebooks with desktop-like performance. Although these can technically be called AI PCs, Arrow Lake H’s NPU performance is poor and doesn’t meet the criteria for Microsoft’s Copilot+ badge (which requires at least a 40 TOPS NPU). It can perform basic AI functions such as Windows Studio effects in video chat, but not more complex tasks such as recall.
Intel didn’t share many other details about Arrow Lake H, but we’ll likely hear more at CES 2025.
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