Following the launch of Arrow Lake desktop processors, Intel is expected to unveil Arrow Lake-H mobile processors. The series would include five SKUs, with the Core Ultra 5 225H at the bottom of the stack and the Core Ultra 9 285H at the top of the stack. After the Core Ultra 9 285H appeared on Geekbench, the entry-level Core Ultra 5 225H also appeared on Geekbench 6.
It is important to mention here that although the Geekbench 6 results in question are valid, the Core Ultra 5 225H has not been officially launched and there is a good chance that we are in the presence of an unreleased sample .
Performances du Core Ultra 5 225H
Based on these Geekbench 6 scores, the Core Ultra 5 225H is approximately 15.3% faster and 4% slower than the Core Ultra 7 258V in the multi-core and single-core Geekbench 6 benchmarks, respectively. after our database. This is an expected result since the Core Ultra 5 225H is faster than the Core Ultra 7 258V Lunar Lake has a TDP of 17 W while the Core Ultra 5 225H is expected to reach 28 W.
The comparison with the Core Ultra 5 125H is more relevant since the Meteor Lake chip is similarly positioned and has the same base TDP of 28W. Here the Core Ultra 5 225H appears to have a 10% lead in the multi-core field and 14% in the single-core domain.
Finally, the Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 365 with a base TDP of 28W has an advantage of 8% and 7% in the Geekbench 6 single-core and multi-core, respectively. It will be interesting to see if commercial versions of the Core Ultra 5 225H will manage to close this performance gap.
Core Ultra 5 225H Specifications
Although the performance of the Core Ultra 5 225H in Geekbench 6 is nothing to write home about compared to the latest mobile processors, the reported specifications of the Core Ultra 5 225H are not very convincing, the reported specifications of the chip describe it as a Entry-level SKU for thin and light laptops and not a performance beast.
From a technical point of view, the Core Ultra 5 225H would feature 4x Lion Cove P-cores, 8x Skymont E-cores, and 2x Crestmont LP E-cores. These Lion Cove P cores are expected to have a base/boost clock speed of 1.6/5.0 GHz, while the Crestmont E cores could run at a much slower 1.3/4.3 GHz. Additionally, the chip could have 28MB of L3 cache.
On the iGPU side, the Core Ultra 5 225H would be equipped with an Xe-LPG+ Arc 130T “Alchemist+” iGPU with 7 Xe cores. It remains to be seen what kind of performance we can expect from this new iGPU.
