Intel’s Lunar Lake-V “Core Ultra 200V” CPUs will host 8 CPU cores, 8 GPU cores, and 32 GB or more of on-package LPDDR5X memory. These chips, accompanied by Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake, have been highly anticipated. Once again, this includes a new CPU architecture, as well as new GPU cores with Xe2-LPG “Arc Battlemage” and on-package LPDDR5X memory.
The All New Intel Lunar Lake-V CPUs
This results in a variety of interesting configurations. For instance, based on Bilibili’s report of prominent insider Golden Pig Upgrade, Intel will most likely start using “V” branding instead of “MX” as the last label. This is also indicated by recent revelations such as Core Ultra 5 234V. Additionally, insights into the configurations of the Lunar Lake-V chips have surfaced.
All Lunar Lake-V CPUs, for their part, will use a single die integrating 4 P-cores centering on the Lion Cove core architecture and 4 LP-E cores centering on the Skymont core architecture. Besides, no standard E-Cores will be launched for Lunar Lake CPUs, meaning that this class of CPUs has been heavily tuned to provide the dramatic “Performance Per Watt” gains claimed by Intel when applied to ultra-thin and light machines. Regarding the Lunar Lake-V’s GPU from Intel, it will also feature the company’s newest Arc Battlemage graphic architecture-based Xe2-LPG iGPUs.
That includes up to eight Xe cores, which might outcompete the Xe-LPG “Arc Alchemist” in terms of performance improvement. However, there are on-package memories on the Lunar Lake-V “Core Ultra 200V”, with the most recent shipping manifests hinting at a capacity of up to 32 GB. The LPDDR5X memory on memory-on-package will operate at an 8533 MT/s speed. With TDPs ranging between 17-30W, the slight increase in power envelope compared to Meteor Lake-U (15-28W) is attributed to the on-package memory.
As per recent claims, Intel’s Lunar Lake-V “Core Ultra 200V” CPUs at 17W are predicted to provide a 50% multi-threaded workload kick over Meteor Lake “Core Ultra 100” CPUs at 15W. Lunar Lake CPUs have been described as having the following key features: designs optimized for thin and light notebooks, a hybrid Lion Cove P-Cores and Skymont LPE-Cores, and Battlemage I “Xe2-LPG” GPU architectures up to 8 Xe2 GPU cores up to 64 Execution Units. According to Intel’s current plans, the rollout of Lunar Lake CPUs would begin later in 2024, with increased yields coming in early 2025. More information about these chips may become available at Computex 2024.
