So I have now skimmed a few reviews. My summary:
- Seems like the lower IPC claim is valid (lower single core performance). I wonder if that will have a negative effect on gaming FPS it laptops that have it tied to a high end GPU?
- power consumption can be very impressive
IF you are doing very little to nothing. As soon as you are doing anything (watching a video, etc), it doesn't seem to be anything too special
- integrated graphics is a validly huge jump
for intel. But that approximately just catches them up to AMD. Seems to be a little faster overall, but not a clean win...and if the review sample RAM claim is true that
could move things in AMD's favour in a like-for-like example.
- multithreaded performance is up (seems inconsistent, but improved)
- overall it seems good for intel, but I am not sure it gives them any kind of leadership position. It should be enough to keep competition alive though. I look forward to some off the shelf, non-intel review sample reviews.
EDIT: and then I read the notebookcheck review. They paint a picture that is even less rosy. For them it basically showed the GPU performance increase (but not as good as AMD in gaming), and most of the rest is not good. They do note that they have additional gaming and low load testing to do. They also mention that U series CPUs will only get half of the GPU, so on those products the GPU gain is gone and should run very similar to last gen on the iGPU (basically remove the biggest gain of this release).
Notebookcheck analysis and review of the new Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake-H) with 8-core Intel Arc GPU und Test des neuen Intel Core Ultra 7 155H (Meteor Lake-H) mit Intel Arc GPU.
www.notebookcheck.net
It seems like its a chose your own adventure! Pick some metrics, ignore some others, and it will be positive or negative for your review headline.
