Intel Core Ultra 200H notebook CPUs will arrive in early 2025, along with HX chips to seriously power up gaming laptops
Intel just launched its Core Ultra 200S processors – the next generation for desktop PCs – and the company has told us that laptop chips for this Arrow Lake family are not far away.
In fact, Arrow Lake notebook CPUs will arrive in the first quarter of 2025, in next-generation laptops, specifically with the Core Ultra 200H and Core Ultra 200HX flavors, which are mainstream and enthusiast (very powerful) processors respectively.
These models will be placed next to Lunar Lake laptop chips (Core Ultra 200V) that have recently appeared on the market (and for some reason impress a large number of people).
Core Ultra 200H chips will top out at 14 cores, with the flagship having 6 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores. As for Core Ultra 200HX, that will go up to 24 cores with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency cores.
Expect to see new laptops with Arrow Lake CPUs at CES 2025 (where we might also get Nvidia’s next-gen notebook GPUs and other mobile goodies).
Analysis: Clearing up any CPU confusion
Not sure how the silicon of Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake laptops fits together, and what’s different? Let’s outline the main differences between the two, and indeed between the H and HX it takes over Arrow Lake.
Lunar Lake is a leader in power efficiency and is designed for thin and light premium laptops, while Arrow Lake will offer more performance and raw grunt, especially with those top-end HX CPUs. (Although Arrow Lake is of course still very efficient compared to Raptor Lake Refresh, as we heard at the desktop launch yesterday).
That said, things are a little different on the AI side. Lunar Lake has a much more powerful NPU with over 40 TOPS – so it qualifies as a CPU that can power a Copilot+ laptop – but Arrow Lake has an NPU that can only muster 13 TOPS (a benchmark for AI performance) .
However, the overall AI performance of the Core Ultra 200H family will be significant, as the integrated GPU offers 77 TOPS, plus 9 TOPS from the processor – all these components join the NPU in handling AI workloads – which gives a total of 99. TOPS. However, the HX series chips have a GPU that only offers 8 TOPS, plus 15 for the CPU, making a total of 36 TOPS for these processors.
So the Core Ultra 200H chips have a significantly more powerful integrated GPU (which works with up to 8 Xe Cores, as opposed to 4 Xe Cores on the HX series) and XeSS support is in the mix. However, with 24 cores and relatively high clock speeds, the Core Ultra 200HX will be formidable chips for the best gaming laptops (and similar workstations). These are essentially the notebook equivalents of the newly unveiled Core Ultra 200S desktop chips, except these mobile CPUs come in a more compact package (a third smaller, in fact).
The idea is that HX processors will be combined with a heavy discrete GPU in gaming laptops, where integrated performance is not enough. (Although we are slowly moving towards a world where this statement is less and less true, it must be said – although of course a discrete GPU will always be more powerful).
Via Wccftech
