Leaked 3DMark score puts Intel's mid-tier Meteor Lake on par with AMD's best handheld PC processor, for gaming at least

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With the expected launch of Intel's Meteor Lake architecture being just around the corner, benchmark scores are getting leaked left, right, and centre. A 3DMark Time Spy test for a Core 7 Ultra 155H puts it slightly faster than AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme, which is used in lots of handheld gaming devices. Given that they have the same power limit, it suggests that Team Red might not have the pocket PC market all to itself in 2024.

I spotted this snippet of information on X/Twitter, as posted by habitual leaker HXL. The screenshots reportedly show some benchmark results for a 28W Core 7 Ultra 155H. This CPU is based on Intel's forthcoming Meteor Lake architecture, which comprises multiple tiles for graphics, compute, IO, and general housekeeping duties.

The compute tile houses six P-cores and eight E-cores, 22 threads in total, with a further two E-cores tucked away in another tile. There's less knowledge about the GPU tile but it's generally thought to have eight Xe cores and if we assume that Intel hasn't changed the structure of its Arc graphics design for Meteor Lake, that's a total of 1,024 shaders.

Anyway, the important bit is that the chip achieved a Time Spy result of 3,339 and the image shows a graphics score of 3,077 and a CPU score of 6,465. To see what those figures are like, I ran the same benchmark on the Asus ROG Ally, which sports AMD's Ryzen Z1 Extreme APU.

You can see in my Time Spy results of that run the Asus handheld got an overall score of 3,150 while the graphics score was 2,834 and the CPU score was 8,574. These figures were achieved with the Ally docked and running in its 30W Turbo mode, so that's as good as it's going to get for the ROG device. Taken on face value, the Z1 Extreme produced a 33% better