Intel has teased its upcoming Arrow Lake-H mobile processors, set to power high-performance laptops starting in the first quarter of 2025. These new chips will feature significantly improved GPUs, offering enhanced AI and graphics capabilities compared to their predecessors.
The Arrow Lake-H processors will incorporate the new Xe GPUs with XMX (Xe Matrix Extensions), which promises a fourfold increase in AI workload processing power compared to previous generations.Additionally, the GPUs will double ray tracing performance and feature twice the cache (8MB L2) of their predecessors.
Despite these advancements, the Arrow Lake-H chips will lag behind Intel’s less powerful Lunar Lake processors in terms of NPU (Neural Processing Unit) performance and overall AI capabilities. The Arrow Lake-H NPU will deliver 13 TOPS (tera operations per second), while the GPU will reach 77 TOPS and the CPU will offer 9 TOPS, totaling up to 99 TOPS of AI performance. In contrast, Lunar Lake boasts a 48 TOPS NPU and up to 120 TOPS of system-wide AI performance.
This disparity reflects the different target markets for these chip families. Arrow Lake-H is designed for demanding notebooks requiring desktop-like performance, while Lunar Lake caters to ultraportables and slim workstations.
Although Arrow Lake-H chips will qualify as AI PCs, their relatively low NPU performance means they won’t meet Microsoft’s Copilot+ badge requirements, which demand at least 40 TOPS NPUs. Users will be able to run basic AI features like Windows Studio Effects in video chats, but more complex tasks such as Recall will be beyond their capabilities.
Intel has not provided extensive details about Arrow Lake-H, but more information is expected to be revealed at CES 2025.
