[Hardware] Intel Core Ultra X9 388H “Panther Lake” iGPU Shows Up to 50% Higher Performance vs. Lunar Lake in Early Benchmarks

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The first set of Intel's Panther Lake benchmarks has surfaced online, revealing that the flagship model has achieved a significant performance improvement over Lunar Lake.

Intel's 12 Xe3 'Celestial' iGPU Comes With Massive Upgrades Over Lunar Lake & Arrow Lake-H, But Far Behind AMD's Flagship iGPU
The launch of the Panther Lake lineup was met with considerable optimism in the industry, primarily due to Team Blue's announcement of substantial performance improvements over Lunar Lake, as well as notable gains in power efficiency figures.

 

Now, based on benchmarks shared by LaptopReview, it is revealed that Intel's Core X9 388H, one of the flagship variants in the Panther Lake series, has managed to score up to 6,300 points at 3DMark TimeSpy, thanks to its bumped-up 12 Xe3 cores iGPU. This is almost a 45% to 50% bump from Lunar Lake's Arc 140V, which is a massive upgrade.

It's essential to note that these figures are preliminary and were obtained at a time when Arc drivers are still being refined for the 'Celestial' Xe3 architecture, so the actual results may vary. However, the above figures indeed verify Intel's internal testing of the top configuration of the PTL iGPU, as the firm claims a 50% increase in graphical performance relative to the Lunar Lake platform. Interesting, when stacked up against NVIDIA's mobile GPU counterpart, the Core Ultra X9 388H iGPU manages to come right on par with the RTX 3050 laptop variant.