Wednesday, November 22nd 2023
Intel Core Ultra 7 155H iGPU Outperforms AMD Radeon 780M, Comes Close to Desktop Intel Arc A380
Intel is slowly preparing to launch its next-generation Meteor Lake mobile processor family, dropping the Core i brand name in favor of Core Ultra. Today, we are witnessing some early Geekbench v6 benchmarks with the latest leak of the Core Ultra 7 155H processor, boasting an integrated Arc GPU featuring 8 Xe-Cores—the complete configuration expected in the GPU tile. This tile is also projected to be a part of the more potent Core 9 Ultra 185H CPU. The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor has been benchmarked in the new ASUS Zenbook 14, which houses a 16-core and 22-thread hybrid CPU configuration capable of boosting up to 4.8 GHz. Paired with 32 GB of memory, the configuration was well equipped to supply CPU and GPU with sufficient memory space.
Perhaps the most interesting information from the submission was the OpenCL score of the GPU. Clocking in at 33948 points in Geekbench v6, the GPU is running over AMD's Radeon 780M GPU found in APU solutions like AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS and Ryzen 9 7940U, which scored 30585 and 27345 points in the same benchmark, respectively. The GPU tile is millimeters away from closing the gap between itself and the desktop Intel Arc A380 discrete GPU, which scored 37105 points for less than a 10% difference. The Xe-LPG GPU version is bringing some interesting performance points for the integrated GPU platform, which means that Intel's Meteor Lake SKUs will bring more performance/watt than ever.
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Perhaps the most interesting information from the submission was the OpenCL score of the GPU. Clocking in at 33948 points in Geekbench v6, the GPU is running over AMD's Radeon 780M GPU found in APU solutions like AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS and Ryzen 9 7940U, which scored 30585 and 27345 points in the same benchmark, respectively. The GPU tile is millimeters away from closing the gap between itself and the desktop Intel Arc A380 discrete GPU, which scored 37105 points for less than a 10% difference. The Xe-LPG GPU version is bringing some interesting performance points for the integrated GPU platform, which means that Intel's Meteor Lake SKUs will bring more performance/watt than ever.
39 Comments on Intel Core Ultra 7 155H iGPU Outperforms AMD Radeon 780M, Comes Close to Desktop Intel Arc A380
You would be looking at good 1440p stuff right there. And if you want to upgrade it you just swap out the CPU in it's total.
And you can do the same tricks as on a console vs desktop CPU/GPU - 35W power limit for the CPU and 105W power limit for the GPU.
There are plenty 4-channel x86 motherboards out there, but Strix Halo won't be socketed anyway. And if it's not socketed, it doesn't matter if the LPDDR width is 128, 256, 512bit or even 1024bit. I used to think that way, but large on-die caches seem to have trouble powering down to sub-10W levels, and that might also be why AMD's APUs have smaller L3 caches on the CPU front as well. Console APUs from the last two decades say hi.
That means if you want to use only one core out of 8, you can power down 7 cores worth of ALUs, registers, L0, L1 and L2 caches. But the whole L3 must be all powered up at all times.
And the system can't just use half the L3. It needs to always use all the cells in parallel.
AMD knows, and we know now, that Meteor Lake is not any revolution in mobility performance. MTL will certainly, and finally, improve power efficiency, but performancewise it's not miles ahead of Raptor Lake. We are hearing that increasing number of OEMs are not happy with it either.
www.techspot.com/review/2487-amd-ryzen-6800h/
Volume is another story... Let's not conflate two things here. I do think that AMD should not announce products 4-6 months before those become available, or at least announce at CES and say directly there that laptops would land in May. Let's not forget that Intel briefed OEMs that Meteor Lake would have been ready for back to school season. As we know now, it will be for Xmas. I waited for my laptop model with 6800H around 6 months. I was ok with that as I did not need it urgently and I was targetting 4K OLED laptop from Asus for media consumption. Those were delayed a bit due to new Samsung displays needing more tuning. It's not always CPU as one reason for delay on all lines of machines. There are a lot of moving parts that need to come together. My impression is marketing teams of several tech companies are sometimes too eager and also under pressure to make annoucements to fit into quarterly deadlines and reports for shareholders. I am not talking about rumoured Strix Halo, but mainstream Strix Point on Zen5 was on AMD's official roadmap.
If AMD decides to compete with Apple, they will need to design a new platform with four channels. All cards are in the game. Let's not expect miracles from APUs on two memory channel systems. Besides, faster SO-DIMMs at 6400 MT/s are available for those who want to squeeze more performance. Whoever wants more memory bandwidth, Apple is available too. Good luck with gaming though.
There will be 8000G desktop APUs from January if you need better iGPU.
It's all about necessity and functionality. AMD introduced the first iGPU on desktop CPUs last year. It's simply for monitor connection and media engine. For anything else, we have GPUs. In fact, iGPU has more powerful display engine than OEMs are willing to expose. iGPU on Raphael supports both DP 2.1 at 40 Gbps and HDMI 2.1 at 48 Gbps. None of motherboard vendors have exposed those ports to their full capability. None. Only Asrock launched boards with HDMI 2.1 at 32 Gbps for newer monitors. Don't hold your hopes too high. We know what Arc is (in)capable of. There's more to those games between manufacturers.
AMD launched the first GPUs with DisplayPort 2.1 video signal, client at 54 Gbps (UHBR13.5 signal) and PRO W series with full 80 Gbps (UHBR20 signal). Nvidia does not have any GPUs with DP 2.1 until 2025. Now, Intel wants to launch Thunderbolt 5 descrete controller next year for halo products. Currently, no iGPU supports DP 2.1 signal at 80 Gbps, so Thunderbolt 5 cannot take advantage of video signal from there.
The only product Thunderbolt 5 could take full DP 2.1 signal from are AMD PRO W7000 cards at the moment. So, for any wider adoption, Intel must wait for new Nvidia 5000 cards to implement DP 2.1 video signal. Or from its own Battlemage GPUs if those support full DP 2.1 signal. We don't know this. It's a tech rumour. We will find out next year.