Test results of Intel’s new Meteor Lake processors, Core Ultra 7 155H and Core Ultra 5 125H, have been revealed. Compared to AMD’s Ryzen 7040 series, the results are not very encouraging. A user at Bilbili tested the processors that will be officially introduced on December 14.Among the processors, Core Ultra 7 155H has a total of 16 cores with a 6 + 8 + 2 core configuration and a clock speed of up to 4.8 GHz. Core Ultra 5 125H has 14 cores and the frequency of the cores can go up to 4.50 GHz. The user does not specify the laptops and configurations on which he tested. This is a big shortcoming because laptops may have different thermal limits, so the same processor may produce different results.
The processors compared are as follows:
- Intel Core Ultra 7 155H – 16 cores / 22 threads / 4.8 GHz Boost / 24 MB L3 / 28W TDP
- Intel Core Ultra 5 125H – 14 cores / 18 threads / 4.5 GHz Boost / 20 MB L3 / 28W TDP
- Intel Core i5-13500H – 12 cores / 16 threads / 4.7 GHz Boost / 18 MB L3 / 45W TDP
- AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS – 8 cores / 16 threads / 5.1 GHz Boost / 16 MB L3 / 35W TDP
When we look at the test results, we see that Ryzen 7 7840HS, Core Ultra 7 155H and Core i5-13500H achieve close results. However, we see that AMD’s Zen 4 architecture performs better than Meteor Lake processors in a single core. In fact, we see that the new processor is slower than the previous generation Core i5-13500H in single core.
GPU performance is twice as high
In terms of GPU performance, Core Ultra 7 155H performs quite well. The new Intel Arc Xe-LPG graphics processor performs 2x better than the previous Iris Xe GPU. However, it falters against the Radeon 780M. OpenCL may be lagging in performance against AMD due to Intel’s focus on DX11 and DX12 APIs in terms of optimizations.
comparison chart
| BENCHMARK | CORE ULTRA 7 155H | RYZEN 7 7840HS | CORE I5-13500H | CORE ULTRA 5 125H |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geekbench 5 (SC) | 1526 | 1691 | 1708 | 1244 |
| Geekbench 5 (MC) | 11174 | 12014 | 10533 | 9875 |
| Geekbench 6 (SC) | 2379 | 2566 | 2471 | 2195 |
| Geekbench 6 (MC) | 12523 | 11243 | 12534 | 10703 |
| Cinebench R15 (MC) | 2050 | 2279 | 2177 | 1916 |
| Cinebench R20 (MC) | 5341 | 5106 | 5531 | 4373 |
| Cinebench R23 (MC) | 15523 | 13127 | 14566 | 12703 |
| OpenCL (GPU) | 33418 | 37211 | 17566 | 28154 |
| Bataya Time (Idle) | 242 | 283 | 228 | 235 |
| Bataya Duration (Video) | 158 | 192 | 108 | 144 |
| Bataya Duration (Web) | 211 | 244 | 198 | 157 |
| WebXPRT 4 | 306 | 273 | 291 | 277 |
| CrossMark | 1915 | 1647 | 1820 | 1713 |
Disappointing in battery performance
In terms of battery performance, Meteor Lake is disappointing. AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS outperforms Intel in both standby, web use and video playback. Although it produces better results than the previous generation, the new Intel 4 production process does not seem to have made much difference. Of course, it is not right to say anything clear about this since we do not know the battery amount and configurations of the computers used.
Intel has a special video engine that performs video playback on energy-efficient cores. Therefore, the reason for the low video playback time may be that this engine is not working properly.
Early results for Intel’s Meteor Lake processors don’t look good. Moreover, while AMD announced the new Ryzen 8040 series with increased artificial intelligence performance, the results are not encouraging. Of course, the real evaluation needs to be made by looking at the test results when the laptops are released.
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