The complete list of Intel Lunar Lake laptops (Core Ultra 9 288V, Ultra 7 258V)

In this article, we’re discussing laptops built on the Intel Lunar Lake (Intel Core Ultra 200V) hardware.

We’re going through the main characteristics and particularities of the Lunar Lake platforms, which are primarily designed for lightweight and portable devices, and then we’ll curate a list of all the available laptops available with Lunar Lake processors, from Core Ultra 5 up to Core Ultra 9 variants.

Lunar Lake is Intel’s latest mobile platform as of the second part of 2024 and is also known as Core Ultra 200V or Core Ultra Series 2, succeeding the Meteor Lake Core Ultra hardware launched in late 2023. But it’s not just a refresh of Meteor Lake, instead is a new approach designed around an SoC (System on a Chip) architecture and a lower-power implementation in this 200V series (with 200U and 200H lineups to follow).

That means the CPU cores, the integrated GPU, the cache and RAM, the NPU and connectivity are all packed together on the same chip.

It also means you’re not getting a lot of cores or threads or high-power TDP settings, as Lunar Lake hardware is meant for ultraportable low-powered devices, for casual use and medium multitasking, and is not quite a hardware platform created with performance in mind. A more powerful iteration of the same concept will follow up with Intel’s Arrow Lake platform later in the year.

Despite that, Intel claims the generational performance improvements over Meteor Lake are significant, both in CPU IPC capabilities, and especially on the iGPU side, where the updated Iris Xe 140V graphics chip bundled with the higher-tier Core Ultra 200V processors promises to outmatch the previous-gen Iris Xe in the Core Ultra 7/9 Meteor Lake processors, but also the Radeon 890M in the latest AMD Ryzen AI Strix Point hardware. We’ll know more once we run tests on the final laptops built on Lunar Lake specs.

At the same time, the announced Lunar Lake SKUs all boast impressive battery-life numbers, upwards of 25 hours in many cases, which is longer than existing Intel/AMD offers and even longer than the Snapdragon X configurations. That’s something to further look into our reviews as well.

So here are the Lunar Lake chips available at launch.

Among them, these are the chips that will be offered in most actual products:

• Intel Core Ultra 9 288V – 4 P-cores, 4 LP E-cores, 8 Threads, 5.1 GHz Max Turbo P-Core Frequency, Intel Arc 140V GPU with 8 Xe Cores and up to 2.05 GHz max frequency, 32 GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, 6x Gen4 NPU with 48 AI TOPS.
• Intel Core Ultra 7 258V – 4 P-cores, 4 LP E-cores, 8 Threads, 4.8 GHz Max Turbo P-Core Frequency, Intel Arc 140V GPU with 8 Xe Cores and up to 1.95 GHz max frequency, 32 GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, 6x Gen4 NPU with 47 AI TOPS.
• Intel Core Ultra 7 256V – 4 P-cores, 4 LP E-cores, 8 Threads, 4.8 GHz Max Turbo P-Core Frequency, Intel Arc 140V GPU with 8 Xe Cores and up to 1.95 GHz max frequency, 16 GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, 6x Gen4 NPU with 47 AI TOPS.
• Intel Core Ultra 5 226V – 4 P-cores, 4 LP E-cores, 8 Threads, 4.5 GHz Max Turbo P-Core Frequency, Intel Arc 130V GPU with 7 Xe Cores and up to 1.85 GHz max frequency, 16 GB LPDDR5X-8533 memory, 5x Gen4 NPU with 40 AI TOPS.

On the CPU side, all these are 8 Core/8 Thread designs, with 4 Performance Cores and 4 Low Power Efficiency Cores. The Performance Cores are built on the Lion Cove architecture and promise double-digit improvements in IPC and up to 20% improvement in efficiency over the Redwood Cove P Cores implemented in Meteor Lake hardware. The LP Cores are built on the Skymont architecture and replace the Crestmont E-Cores implemented in past Intel platforms, promising a significant increase in performance and efficiency as well.

Max Turbo frequencies vary between SKUs, but within a 15% margin between the lowest-tier Core Ultra 5 and the top-tier Core Ultra 9. And of course, actual frequencies in sustained loads are impacted by the power and thermal design of each implementation.

For the GPU, most SKUs bundle the Iris Xe 140V with 8x 2nd-generation Xe graphical Cores, while the Core Ultra 5 chips bundle the Iris Xe 130V iGPU with 7x Xe Cores. The performance difference between all these shouldn’t be significant either.

A special characteristic of these Lunar Lake chips is the fact that the system memory is bundled in, with options for either 16 or 32 GB of RAM. The last digit in the naming of these processors tell 16/32 GB versions apart, with “6” meaning 16 GB and “8” meaning 32 GB. The Core Ultra 5 and Ultra 7 chips are available in either variants, while the Core Ultra 9 288V only comes with 32 GB of RAM.

That, btw, means that you’re getting at least 16 GB of RAM with Lunar Lake laptops, so no 8 GB variants anymore. No 64 GB configurations either. And with the RAM baked into the SoC, there’s no way to upgrade the memory in any on these devices. Most thin-and-light computers of later years came with onboard RAM anyway, and now that’s just a given with the platform design, and not just with Intel’s Lunar Lake, but with the latest Qualcomm and AMD mobile platforms as well.

I’ll also mention the integrated NPU and AI capabilities of this hardware, with the NPU rated at up to 48 TOPS of INT8 performance, inline with the options from AMD and Snapdragon. That also means these Lunar Lake computers meet the Microsoft Copilot+ AI standard. Just make sure you look past the hype and marketing when it comes to actual use of AI on current devices.

Now, you’ll mostly find the Core Ultra 9 288V chip implemented in top configurations of high-tier devices, demanding a premium in price over the more mainstream Core Ultra 7 258V. But the differences between these two chips are minimal: up to 4.8 GHz Turbo on the 258V vs. up to 5.1 GHz Turbo on the 288V, very similar iGPUs and NPUs, and the exact same kind and amount of RAM, 32 GB. So for most situations, a Core Ultra 7 258V is going to be the sweetspot choice for this platform.

Of course, the capabilities of each laptop vary between implementations, based on power settings, internal designs, and cooling modules. These details are available in reviews. We’ll update with performance numbers once we get to test a few of these Lunar Lake platforms, past the NDA.

With that out of the way, let’s go through the lists of notebooks built on Intel’s Lunar Lake hardware that are available today.

List of Laptops built on Intel Lunar Lake (Core Ultra 200V) hardware

This section lists all the available notebooks built on Lunar Lake chips, with premium options going up to the Core Ultra 9 288V processor, and most other variants going up to a Core Ultra 7 258V.

Because this hardware platform is designed for thin-and-light devices, you won’t find it in full-size performance laptops, hence there’s no need to split the tables between various classes of devices as we do in our other similar articles. Nonetheless, you will find options with various power designs and various chassis/display sizes, from 13 to 16 inchers. Generally, the larger the chassis, the more powerful the device.

So here’s the list. The links point towards our more detailed reviews and articles on some of the tested units. The list is a work in progress, so if you spot a laptop that should be in here and is not yet, let us know about it in the comments section at the end.

That’s about it for now.

As mentioned, stay around for updates to the list above as more laptops built on Intel Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200V platforms are launched and become available to purchase in shops and we get to review more of them and figure out their general capabilities and value alongside the other options available out there in the ultraportable space.