Intel Core Ultra 200H notebook CPUs will arrive at the start of 2025, along with HX chips to seriously beef up gaming laptops. Arrow Lake mobile processors look formidable.
Intel has just launched its Core Ultra 200S processors – the new generation for desktop PCs – and the company has informed us that laptop chips for this Arrow Lake family aren’t far away.
In fact, the Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in Q1 2025, in next-gen laptops, specifically with Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX flavors, which are mainstream and enthusiast (very powerful) processors, respectively.
These models will sit alongside Lunar Lake laptop (Core Ultra 200V) chips, which have recently impressed many folks for one reason or another.
Analysis: Clearing up any CPU confusion
Confused about how Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake laptop silicon fit together, and what’s different? Let’s outline the main differences between the two, and indeed between the H and HX takes on Arrow Lake.
Lunar Lake majors in power efficiency and is designed for thin and light premium laptops, whereas Arrow Lake will offer more in the way of performance and raw grunt, particularly with those top-end HX CPUs. Although Arrow Lake is still very efficient compared to Raptor Lake Refresh, of course, as we heard all about at the desktop launch yesterday.
That said, on the AI side, things are a bit different. Lunar Lake features a much more powerful NPU with over 40 TOPS, so it qualifies as a CPU that can be the engine of a Copilot+ laptop. Arrow Lake has an NPU that can only muster 13 TOPS, a measure of AI performance.
However, the total AI performance from the Core Ultra 200H family will be seriously beefy. The integrated GPU offers 77 TOPS, plus 9 TOPS from the processor. All of these components join the NPU in dealing with AI workloads, giving a total of 99 TOPS. The HX series chips, however, have a GPU that offers only 8 TOPS, plus 15 for the CPU, for a total of 36 TOPS for these processors.
So, the Core Ultra 200H chips have a considerably more powerful integrated GPU, running with up to 8 Xe Cores, as opposed to 4 Xe Cores with the HX series. XeSS support is in the mix. With 24 cores and relatively fast clock speeds, though, the Core Ultra 200HX will be formidable chips for the best gaming laptops and the likes of workstations. These are basically the notebook equivalents of the freshly revealed desktop Core Ultra 200S chips, except these mobile CPUs come in a more compact package (a third smaller, in fact).
The idea is that HX processors will be paired with a heavyweight discrete GPU in gaming laptops, where integrated performance isn’t going to cut it. Although we’re slowly moving towards a world where that statement is increasingly less true, it must be said – though a separate GPU is always going to be more powerful, of course.
In fact, the Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in Q1 2025, in next-gen laptops, specifically with Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX flavors, which are mainstream and enthusiast (very powerful) processors, respectively.
These models will sit alongside Lunar Lake laptop (Core Ultra 200V) chips, which have recently impressed many folks for one reason or another.
Analysis: Clearing up any CPU confusion
Confused about how Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake laptop silicon fit together, and what’s different? Let’s outline the main differences between the two, and indeed between the H and HX takes on Arrow Lake.
Lunar Lake majors in power efficiency and is designed for thin and light premium laptops, whereas Arrow Lake will offer more in the way of performance and raw grunt, particularly with those top-end HX CPUs. Although Arrow Lake is still very efficient compared to Raptor Lake Refresh, of course, as we heard all about at the desktop launch yesterday.
That said, on the AI side, things are a bit different. Lunar Lake features a much more powerful NPU with over 40 TOPS, so it qualifies as a CPU that can be the engine of a Copilot+ laptop. Arrow Lake has an NPU that can only muster 13 TOPS, a measure of AI performance.
However, the total AI performance from the Core Ultra 200H family will be seriously beefy. The integrated GPU offers 77 TOPS, plus 9 TOPS from the processor. All of these components join the NPU in dealing with AI workloads, giving a total of 99 TOPS. The HX series chips, however, have a GPU that offers only 8 TOPS, plus 15 for the CPU, for a total of 36 TOPS for these processors.
So, the Core Ultra 200H chips have a considerably more powerful integrated GPU, running with up to 8 Xe Cores, as opposed to 4 Xe Cores with the HX series. XeSS support is in the mix. With 24 cores and relatively fast clock speeds, though, the Core Ultra 200HX will be formidable chips for the best gaming laptops and the likes of workstations. These are basically the notebook equivalents of the freshly revealed desktop Core Ultra 200S chips, except these mobile CPUs come in a more compact package (a third smaller, in fact).
The idea is that HX processors will be paired with a heavyweight discrete GPU in gaming laptops, where integrated performance isn’t going to cut it. Although we’re slowly moving towards a world where that statement is increasingly less true, it must be said – though a separate GPU is always going to be more powerful, of course.