Intel Lunar Lake: Leaked benchmarks highlight stellar power effciency and Strix Point-level GPU performance

Intel advertised Lunar Lake as its most power efficient platform ever. This is supported by idle power draw numbers which you can see above. While its idle standby power is a tad higher than the Core Ultra 7 165U, the Lunar Lake CPU wins everywhere else (video playback, Microsoft Teams, YouTube, Netflix, etc.). Of course, this is in Windows 'best power efficiency mode', and the numbers could be a bit higher on 'Balanced' or 'Maximum Performance'.

Now, let's get the the most important part: benchmarks.  In 3D Mark Time Spy (graphics only), the Lunar Lake CPU scores 3,438 at 17 W and 4,151 at 30 W, putting it between the Radeon 6650M, the 10-core Apple M4, and even the Radeon 890M found on the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Next up in 3DMark Wild Life Extreme, Lunar Lake scores 7,561 points at 30W.

Moving on to some CPU-bound tests, Lunar Lake scores 10,212 points in an unspecified Cinebench muti-core test. In Geekbench 5.4, its single and multi-core tests, it scores 1,988 and 8,653 (at 30 W). The Core Ultra 7 268V recently showed up on Geekbench and scored 2,713 and 10,036, which is close to AMD's Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in single-core and respectable close in multi-core, especially with the core count disparity across both models.