Intel Lunar Lake could revolutionize gaming handhelds, going by early tests of Core Ultra 7 CPU
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/intel-lunar-lake-could-revolutionize-gaming-handhelds-going-by-early-tests-of-core-ultra-7-cpu/ar-AA1rEbGz?
Posted by BosSF82
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y sure, they’ll suddenly jump ahead of amd power efficiency while they currently need 3x, that’s def happening and nana will want you to invest rn
INTCopium
Intel?? revolutionize?? That’s something we did not hear in a long time.
Revolutionize my account intc🚀
Yes Steam Deck sales will save intel
Hopes they don’t suffer from instability issue like 13th and 14th gen, else people will just skip over them
How big of a market is mobile gaming
Unless it’s powering the Switch 2 it won’t even be noticeable.  Even if it was in the Steam Deck 2 that’s an extremely niche product.
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How many handhelds are even sold? Even gaming as a whole and the PC market, is it even a fraction of the server/business/phone cpu that others dominate?
Investing in Intel long term is worse than putting cash under your mattress
entirely made by TSMC 👌
Disclaimer: I’m invested in AMD.
Lunar Lake might be better (battery life), slightly better (single core performance) or on par (iGPU) with AMDs Strix Point but you forgot a few things:
– multi core performance is absolutely embarrassing (probably not so important for a handheld)
– Intel’s GPU drivers are far behind AMD (benchmarks vs real life gaming)
– Lunar Lake is on a more expensive TSMC node than Strix and has on-package memory, which makes it far more expensive to produce.
Lunar Lake is a good product for a certain category of ultra portable devices, but the price will disqualify it for affordable handhelds.
I doubt they take a chunk out of amd console market. Unless they sell at razor thin margin
Weird test, 15W for the laptop and even less for the handhelds. Lots of these APUs have TDP sweet spots and basically everything AMD but the SteamDeck does best from 15-20W (I keep my 6800U Win Max 2 around 18W) so it totally screws up the comparisons.
All the devices should be set to the exact same TDP for testing, as well as running tests with devices at their optimal efficiency vs performance TDPs so we can actually tell the performance and power differences.
However at the same time ”
AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators” https://www.phoronix.com/review/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linux
I only play old games on a decrepit laptop and sure as hell am not getting a new laptop for gaming. They need to make a desktop CPU that wipes the floor with the 7800X3D in terms of performance to power ratio and beats the laughable 14th gen joke as if it was 3 generations old (because it is).
Then I’ll believe in their turnaround.