Intel’s Lunar Lake iGPU With Battlemage Outperforms Arrow Lake iGPU With Alchemist+ By Almost 2x In Benchmark Leak
1/11/2024
Intel Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake CPU, Specs & Release Date
Some early benchmarks of Intel’s Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake iGPUs, which use the Battlemage “Xe2” and Alchemist+ “Xe-LPG+” GPU architectures, respectively, have surfaced online.
Intel’s Lunar Lake iGPU With Battlemage Architecture Beats Alchemist iGPUs In Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake Chips And Also Surpasses The Arc A310 Graphics Card In Early Benchmark Leak Intel is working hard on its next-generation Battlemage and Celestial GPUs, which will come in both discrete and integrated forms. Intel is also collaborating with its CPU team to embed next-gen GPU architectures in its upcoming CPU families, such as Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake. These CPUs are expected to launch in the second half of 2024.
Intel Lunar Lake CPU Benchmarks
We have seen some entries of Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake CPUs in SiSoftware Sandra before, but the latest one is more interesting, as it focuses on the iGPU. The benchmark leak for both chips is based on very early samples, so the final performance may change, and you should keep that in mind.
Intel’s Arrow Lake CPUs, the Core Ultra Series 2, will have the latest Lion Cove P-Core, Crestmont+Skymont E-Core, and Alchemist+ graphics architecture. Intel’s Alchemist+ or Xe-LPG+ is an improved version of the current Alchemist “Xe-LPG” GPUs and we can expect some enhancements such as higher clocks.
Intel Arrow Lake CPU Benchmarks
The CPU that was spotted is a 64 EU SKU that ran at 1.7 to 2.0 GHz clock speeds. This chip achieved a maximum GPU Processing performance of 1075.69 Mpix/s. This is a bit faster than the Intel Meteor Lake 64 Execution Unit chips that were tested last year.
The other chip that was leaked is the Intel Lunar Lake engineering sample, which has 20 cores and a clock speed of 1.0 GHz base and up to 3.91 GHz boost clocks. This chip also has 64 Execution units and ran at 1.75 to 1.85 GHz clock speeds. This chip scored a max GPU Processing performance of 1927.62 Mpix/s. This is an 80% improvement over the Alchemist+ iGPU, which is very impressive.
Also, something worth mentioning is that the Arrow Lake CPUs have a TDP rating of 65W to 125W, while the Lunar Lake chip has a TDP rating of 17W in this leak. Since Lunar Lake CPUs are made for thin and light laptops, the low TDP makes sense, while the Arrow Lake CPUs could be early H-series SKUs for high-end gaming laptops. These chips will compete with AMD Strix Point APUs, which use the Zen 5 core architecture and are also coming later this year.
The Lunar Lake iGPU with the Battlemage “Xe2” architecture also performs 26% better than the Meteor Lake iGPU with the Alchemist “Xe” architecture with twice as many cores, and it also beats the Arc A310 graphics card by 25%. Considering that the Lunar Lake CPUs won’t launch until the end of 2024, this gives us a glimpse of how good the Battlemage GPUs can be. Almost a 2x performance increase over Alchemist would be amazing, and if we see similar gains in the desktop discrete graphics card segment, then the next-gen Arc products will be awesome.
Again, it is too early to judge the performance of Battlemage based on these benchmarks, but Battlemage architecture in iGPUs for future desktop and laptop CPUs would be great for the gaming market. Lunar Lake will come to thin and light gaming laptops in late 2024, so look forward to more details and information from Intel throughout this year.