Intel Core Ultra 5 238V & 234V “Lunar Lake” CPUs: 8 Cores, 8 Threads, 16 & 32 GB LPDDR5X Memory

The upcoming Core Ultra 5 238V and Core Ultra 5 234V CPUs of Intel from the Lunar Lake generation have leaked with up to 32 GB of onboard LPDDR5X memory. This isn’t the first time an Intel Core Ultra 200V ‘Lunar Lake’ CPU has appeared in graphics driver log files. But not only did the latest discovery, published by @InstLatX64, expose the Core Ultra 5 234V but also the higher-end Core Ultra 5 238V. They differ mainly in the on-package memory settings.

More About Intel Core Ultra 5 238V and 234V

These leaked Intel Core Ultra 5 238V and Core Ultra 5 234V chips, designated as engineering samples under the code LNL-M LP5, fall within the family: 0x6, model: 0xbd, stepping: 0x1. Intel is anticipated to introduce a new naming convention for the Family 6 series in the coming years. Intel Core Ultra 5 238V and Core Ultra 5 234V CPU both feature 8 cores and 8 threads.

Both are based on a configuration of 4 P-Cores, the Lion Cove, and 4 E-Cores, the Skymont. The Lunar Lake CPUs come with in-package LPDDR5x memory. The chip’s clock speeds are reported as 2.10 GHz in the base model and 3.10 GHz in the boost, but these are technically preliminary figures due to the chip’s nature as an engineering sample. Core Ultra 5 238V includes 32 GB of on-package memory, while Core Ultra 5 234V features 16 GB.

Earlier leaks have also shown the more powerful and high-end Intel Lunar Lake CPUs with 7 Xe-cores. Nevertheless, it has been mentioned that there are “at least eight Xe-core Xeon variants”. Such CPUs are expected “to offer amazing performance improvements above and beyond the upcoming Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake processors, both based on the Alchemist “Xe-LPG” designs”.

On top of that, the NPU in the Lunar Lake should be three times faster than that in the Sapphire Rapids, resulting in more than 100 TOPs of AI performance arena. Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs are projected to be announced for launch later this year; however, there will not be many such CPUs – probably closer to U-enhanced Qualcomm CPUs – but the mass volumes will not be available before 2025. Additionally, one can expect to learn more about Intel’s Lunar Lake CPUs at Computex 2025, when Intel is supposedly set to discuss its client CPU families coming in the next few years.

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