Intel’s New Core Ultra 200hx Series Cpus Are Ready For Next-gen Gaming Laptops

Intel is announcing nan remainder of nan Arrow Lake family of CPUs astatine CES today, pinch options for thin-and-light laptops each nan measurement up to gaming notebooks. These mobile processors will look successful galore of nan computers being announced astatine CES this week, pinch nan 200HX bid being paired pinch next-gen GPUs we’re expecting Nvidia to denote later coming and nan 200H and 200U bid of chips destined for thin-and-light and premium laptops.

While Intel will proceed to proviso Lunar Lake CPUs for its scope of Copilot Plus laptops, nan Arrow Lake mobile family won’t beryllium ditching practice sticks aft Intel confirmed successful October that nan Lunar Lake chips were a one-off experiment.

The caller Core Ultra 200HX bid will beryllium targeted astatine gaming laptops and should coming astir 5 percent amended single-thread capacity and 20 percent multithread capacity improvements complete erstwhile Raptor Lake-H Refresh processors.

Intel says caller gaming laptops pinch nan “latest discrete GPUs” (read that arsenic Nvidia’s RTX 50-series) will beryllium coming successful precocious Q1. The flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX has 24 cores (8 capacity and 16 ratio cores), tin boost up to 5.5GHz, has 4 GPU cores, and a 13 TOPS NPU. That’s tin to meet Intel’s meaning of “AI PC” but not tin for Microsoft’s Copilot Plus features.

Consumer laptops that aren’t gaming-focused will recreation pinch Intel’s 200H aliases 200U bid of processors. The H variants personification a guidelines powerfulness of 28 watts, isolated from nan flagship Core Ultra 9 285H that pushes nan powerfulness requirements up to 45 watts. These H-series CPUs personification a caller Intel Arc GPU incorrect that delivers astir 15 percent amended graphics capacity complete erstwhile Meteor Lake chips.

CPU capacity connected these H chips should beryllium astir 15 percent better, too, for single-thread tasks. There are 5 chips disposable for laptop makers here, including nan flagship Intel Core Ultra 9 285H pinch 16 cores (6 performance, 8 efficiency, and 2 low-power ratio cores), a boost timepiece of 5.4GHz, and 8 GPU cores. 

Intel will too merchandise nan U bid of its Core Ultra 200 processors for laptops that are overmuch overmuch focused connected artillery life and thin-and-light designs. These chips personification a guidelines powerfulness of conscionable 15 watts and only turbo up to 57 watts. The apical Intel Core Ultra 7 265U processor includes 12 cores (2 performance, 8 efficiency, and 2 low-power ratio cores) and tin boost up to 5.3GHz.

While nan 200HX bid of chips won’t look until precocious Q1 successful gaming laptops, nan 200H and 200U chips should commencement shipping successful thin-and-light laptops successful nan coming weeks.