Intel Launches Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake CPUs in India With These Specifications
Intel Core Ultra 200V-series CPUs – called Lunar Lake – were launched in India on Thursday, about eight days after their global debut. It is the second-generation artificial intelligence (AI) processors launched by the company, after the launch of Meteor Lake CPUs in December 2023. Coupled with several AI-accelerated features, the Intel Core Ultra 200V-series is capable of delivering a total of 67 trillion operations per second (TOPS). Lunar Lake is the company’s first processor to carry the Microsoft Copilot+ badge.
Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake Series Availability in India
Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake series laptops will be available for pre-order starting September 12 across retail platforms such as Amazon, Croma, Flipkart, Reliance Digital and Vijay Sales. The devices will be available for purchase starting September 24.
This includes products from global manufacturers such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MSI and Samsung.
Intel Core Ultra 200V Lunar Lake Series Features
According to Intel, the new line of processors will feature the company’s new Xe2 graphics architecture, which it claims delivers 30 percent better performance when producing mobile graphics. The lineup includes nine new laptop processors, equipped with eight CPU cores and up to eight GPU cores.
The Intel Arc graphics processing unit (GPU) consists of eight second-generation Xe cores, eight enhanced ray tracing units, support for up to three 4K monitors, and Intel Xe Matrix Extensions AI engines. Thanks to these upgrades, it can deliver up to 67 TOPS performance. Intel says that Lunar Lake CPUs have 68 percent better graphics performance than Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite chipset.
To develop it, the chipmaker collaborated with independent software vendors (ISVs) and optimized more than 500 AI models, allowing PCs running this chipset to take full advantage of its AI capabilities.
According to the company, four of the eight cores are Lion Cove performance cores, while the other four are Skymont efficiency cores. All processors come equipped with support for up to 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM. In total, the new Core Ultra Series 2 processors offer a total of 120 TOPS across the CPU (5 TOPS), GPU (48 TOPS), and NPU (67 TOPS).
For connectivity, the chips support Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 (with LE Audio), and Gigabit Ethernet connectivity. Laptops, PCs, and other devices powered by Intel Lunar Lake can be equipped with up to three Thunderbolt 4 ports, six USB 2.0, and two USB 3.0 ports.
