Intel’s big bet on efficient GPUs might actually work

Intel has a lot riding on its next-gen Battlemage graphics architecture, and a very early benchmark shows some promising signs for performance. An Intel Lunar Lake CPU packing a low-power integrated Battlemage GPU was reportedly spotted in the SiSoftware benchmark database. It boasts not only higher performance than Intel ’s Meteor Lake chips, but also much better efficiency.

Get your weekly teardown of the tech behind PC gaming Check your inbox! Privacy Policy In the benchmark, the chip scored 2,108.15 Mpix/s. For some context, Meteor Lake CPUs using Intel’s first-gen Alchemist architecture scored around 1,700 Mpix/s. That doesn’t sound like a massive jump at first, but the Lunar Lake CPU was able to achieve its result with only 17 watts of power. Meanwhile, Meteor Lake consumed 28W for a lower score.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t mean very much. SiSoftware is a general-purpose benchmark, not a real-world workload. It’s testing the capabilities of the GPU rather than how it will actually behave in games and other real applications. Once Lunar Lake chips are available, we’ll still need to take a thorough look at performance to see how it stacks up.

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