Intel Arrow Lake H laptops (Core Ultra 9 285H, Ultra 7 255H)- complete list, best options

Let’s discuss the 2025 Intel Arrow Lake H hardware platform, with Core Ultra 200H processors.

This hardware combines a complex processor with Intel’s latest cores and technologies and a competent Arc iGPU, arguably the fastest iGPU available today aside from the Radeon graphics in the Strix Halo platform. On top of these, Arrow Lake H supports fast DDR5 or LPDDR5x memory, PCIe gen5 SSDs, WiFi7 and Thunderbolt 5.0, among others.

In a way, this hardware is the beefed-up version of the already popular Lunar Lake V subseries released a few months ago.

Hence, due to its versatile particularities, Arrow Lake H can be integrated either stand-alone in multi-purpose thin-and-light laptops, or alongside a dGPU in a wider range of products, either premium options with the latest Nvidia RTX Blackwell graphics, or mid-sized mid-range models with various types of mid-level RTX graphics.

We’ll go over all these options further down, but first, let’s dig a little more indepth around the design particularities of this subseries of Arrow Lake processors.

Intel Arrow Lake H specs and hardware explained

Arrow Lake H hardware is a hybrid design with Lion Cove Performance Cores and Skymont Efficiency Cores, built on TSMC’s 6 nm N6 node. These are the same cores implemented by the Arrow Lake HX and Lunar Lake V platforms, but in different amounts and with a different overall CPU design.

Unlike on Lunar Lake, all the cores share a common bus-ring and cache memory on Arrow Lake H, and this allows the Skymont Cores to truly showcase their capabilities and overall IPC gains over the previous-gen Crestmont cores implemented with 1st gen Core Ultra H Meteor Lake hardware. That’s why, despite lacking HyperThreading on the P-Cores, Core Ultra 200H processors outmatch their similar-tier 100H predecessors across the board, in both single-threaded and multi-threaded loads – of course, as long as we’re talking similar power levels and cooling, etc.

On the memory side, Arrow Lake H hardware is not a closed SoC design with embedded memory, like Lunar Lake V. Instead, it can be bundled with either LPDRR5x onboard memory on the more portable designs, or supports DDR5 memory through regular DIMM slots in larger or more budget formats. Of course, not having the memory close to the CPU on the same die can impact performance in certain situations, but only in very specific loads.

You might notice in the specs CAMM2 support (Compression Attached Memory Module) for this generation, a potential solution for RAM upgradeability in portable formats, but we’ll see if OEMs actually decide on adopting the format in actual devices. Haven’t seen any so far.

For the GPU, this platform bundles Intel’s Arc 140T, which is a higher-clocked version of the Arc 140V implemented with Lunar Lake, with still 8x 2nd-generation Xe cores. Expect this to perform around 10% faster than the 140V, as long as supplied with enough power.

Overall, while Lunar Lake V hardware does well at 25-30W total power, you’d need more sustained power to squeeze the best possible performance out of a matching Arrow lake H implementation. The Core Ultra 9 285H CPU, in particular, comes with a design TDP customizable from 45 to 115W, while the Core Ultra 7 and 5 SKUs are more intended for mid-powered devices at 28-60 W TDP. Nonetheless, that’s why most available ultrabooks are still built on Lunar Lake V hardware even now in 2025, while Arrow Lake H hardware is offered in more performance-oriented portable designs.

Here’s a quick summary of the more widespread Arrow Lake 200H Core Ultra 9 and Ultra 7 processors and I’ve also included the Lunar Lake 200V Core Ultra 7 and Meteor Lake 100H Ultra 9 for comparison. Just keep in mind that comparing Arrow Lake and Meteor Lake is more complicated than these numbers would suggest, since they are different designs with different generations of cores.

And this is the complete lineup of Intel Core Ultra 200H processors, including the Ultra 5 version.

Overall, the Core Ultra 9 285H and Core Ultra 7 255H are going to be the CPU options implemented in most retail devices. They’re very much the same, but with higher power design settings for the Core Ultra 9, and slightly faster CPU/GPU clock speeds. For the most part, you probably won’t be able to find both in the same chassis, but if you do, go with the more affordable Ultra 7 version all else considered.

We’ll update this article as we get to test a handful of Arrow Lake H Core Ultra 200H implementations and showcase how these compare to previous-gen Meteor Lake H laptops, but also how they fare against the 2025 AMD Ryzen AI counterparts, either Strix Point or Krackan Point.

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In the meantime, down below I’ve gathered a complete list of devices built on this hardware, in various formats and with or without dedicated graphics on the side.

List of all laptops built on the Intel Arrow Lake H (Core Ultra 200H) platform

This section lists all the available notebooks built on Arrow Lake Core Ultra 200H hardware.

There are mainly two types of devices, mid-tier thin-and-light laptops in 14 to 16 inch sizes, built exclusively on the Intel CPU/GPU hardware, or all-purpose laptops that combine the Intel Core H processors with Nvidia Graphics, either RTX 4000 for the affordable models or RTX 5000 for the top-tier variants.

Of course, there are many differences in chassis design, power, and cooling, as well as overall features between all these devices. I summarized the important traits in each case, with links to our more detailed articles and reviews where available.

At this point, it’s too early to make informed recommendations on these products, although we do know what to expect from some of them, particularly the hardware refreshes of 2024 designs. Among the portable models, the Acer Swift Go 14 and Asus Zenbook 14 are solid options in their segment of ultraportables, and usually very competitively priced.

At the other end, something like the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 stands out as a premium all-purpose compact notebook, for work, creator use or even gaming, as it can be specced up to an Ultra 9 with RTX 5090 and vapor-chamber. There aren’t other alternatives with similar capabilities available yet, but I expect some to be announced in due time. Regardless, the Zephyrus G16 will be one of the best options in this premium high-performance segment.

We’re updating the list as it goes. There are a handful of Dell (Dell Pro Max 14/16, Dell Pro Plus 14/16), HP (Omens, ZBooks), and Lenovo (IdeaPad and Yoga Pros, ThinkBooks, ThinkPads),  laptops that should be unveiled over the next few weeks, but couldn’t include them here since I don’t have access to all the specs and details.

That’s about it for this article.

It’s a work in progress, though, and we’ll update it as new devices with Intel Arrow Lake-H Core Ultra 200H hardware are released, or once we get to review some of these.

At this point, I’d appreciate if you’d share your thoughts on this Intel platform in the comments section below. And if you find any laptop that should be listed in this article and isn’t yet, please let me know about it.