Intel Core Ultra 7 258V mobile processor matches top Ryzen ‘Phoenix’ chips in BAPCO performance charts

Benchmarks for Intel’s next-generation Lunar Lake chips popped up on BAPCo’s CPU charts, with results for the ‘Core Ultra 7 258V 2.20 GHz’ surpassing the Meteor Lake Core Ultra 5 125H and achieving similar performance to AMD’s Ryzen 9 and Ryzen 7 7040′ Phonenix chips. The Intel Core Ultra 200V processors are expected to arrive in September this year, so many laptop makers are testing and finalizing their products. This process involves benchmark testing, and we’ve also seen some results for the same chip appear in the more popular Geekbench benchmark.

The BAPCo test was conducted using the CrossMark benchmark, a multi-platform testing app that looks at overall system performance based on real-world usage patterns, similar to how actual users operate their PCs on a daily basis. Leaked specs show a P-Core Boost Clock of 4.8 GHz and Base Clock of 2.2 GHz, while the E-Core Boost Clock speed is 3.7 GHz.

However, we must note that the 258V has a base TDP of 17W and a maximum turbo power of 30W. This is comparable to the ultra-low power Meteor Lake chips, such as the Core Ultra 7 164U and Core Ultra 5 134U. So it makes sense that the chip will outperform its older but more powerful cousins, such as the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H and above. Nevertheless, it performs better than the Core Ultra 5 125H, despite the latter having a TDP of 28 to 115 W.

We should also reiterate the well-known fact that Lunar Lake chips will abandon Hyper-Threading technology to make the chips more power efficient for thin and light laptops. Rumors indicate that the Core Ultra 7 258V will only have four P-Cores and four E-Cores, for a total of eight cores and eight threads. That means it will have fewer cores and threads than the Core Ultra 5 125H, which has four P-Cores (eight threads) and eight E-Cores.