Intel's new Core UItra laptops are here and beating my favourite AMD chip, in its own official benchmarks

pcgamer.com:

Intel has taken the wraps off its new Meteor Lake-based Core Ultra laptop CPUs, and it's aiming these low-power chips squarely at my favourite AMD chip of all time—the Ryzen 7 7840U. That's the similarly low-power Zen 4 processor at the heart of the latest Framework 13 mainboard, but also every single non-Valve handheld gaming PC that was released this year.

These are the first processors based on the Intel 4 (née Intel 7nm) production process, and come with the company's innovative tiled design. This mixes chiplets from different production processes and, importantly, from different companies together on top of a base layer which connects them all together. 

So yes, this is Intel's first chiplet processor design, and it's split up into the following tiles, as highlighted by Jacob in his Intel Meteor Lake architecture deep dive.

But only one of these tiles is actually using the new Intel 4 lithography, and only one actually manufactured by Intel itself. We've covered the design itself in some depth following Jacob's time out in Malaysia with the team which put these chips together. Suffice to say that these mobile chips have been built with efficiency in mind first and foremost, but also with one eye on gaming performance, too, because Intel's touting a performance boost over its previous generation graphics of 2x.

Interestingly, that doubling of frame rates is based on the best game of 2023, Baldur's Gate 3, which is certainly a welcome improvement. But, as you might expect from an Arc iGPU, its performance does definitely vary on a per-game basis. GTA V, for example, will only see a 9% frame rate boost over the previous generation of Intel laptop graphics.

But it's the relative performance against the mighty AMD chip