- A leak has emerged for the rumored Intel Core Ultra X7 358H
- This Panther Lake CPU shows up with a solid graphics score on Geekbench
- It’s better than a previous leak by 7%, indicating that Intel’s driver refinement is going well with Panther Lake.
Intel’s upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPUs are once again sparking excitement as another leak paints a picture of fast-performing chips when it comes to graphics and gaming.
As Wccftech reports, this is a Geekbench leak for the 16-core Core Ultra X7 358H CPU, a Panther Lake offering in a Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro that someone compared.
The Core Ultra It’s also noticeably 7% faster than a previous Geekbench leak for this Core Ultra X7 358H processor.
What is the reason for the considerable improvement? This is due to Intel’s refinement and improvements to the GPU drivers as they get closer to release. Panther Lake is expected to debut in laptops in early 2026, and the interesting thing here is that we could have more performance improvements before these mobile CPUs are in laptops on shelves.
The rumored specification of the Core Ultra X7 358H is that the chip has an integrated 12-core (Although discounting the low-power cores, which are tiny, it is a 12-core processor).
Analysis: Panther Lake promise
With the integrated In other words, we’re looking at something equal to the RTX 3050 Ti here, and if we get more performance improvements before the release of Panther Lake, this Xe3 GPU may even outperform the standalone Nvidia GPU.
This once again illustrates the kind of advances that are being made with graphics solutions integrated into processors, allowing for the creation of very thin and light gaming laptops that can be more affordable. Remember, a discrete GPU takes up space in a laptop chassis, requires more cooling effort, and also increases the overall cost of the device.
Not to mention that the Xe3 graphics here use much less power than an Nvidia RTX 3050 normally uses, which is 60W to 80W, while the entire chip only uses that with the Core Ultra This should translate into considerably better battery life with Intel’s integrated Arc solution, there’s no doubt about that.
Of course, Geekbench isn’t the first benchmark you’d turn to when evaluating any graphics card’s gaming prowess, but it does offer some indication of where the GPU’s performance levels lie. In fact, we may see synthetic gaming benchmarks, or real in-game tests, that show this Panther Lake chip has even more oomph to offer than suggested here.
This impending range of mobile processors from Intel looks like a strong contender to seriously boost budget gaming laptops in terms of efficiency (battery) and performance. In fact, it will be even better news for wearable devices, which are even more restricted in the claustrophobic confines of their compact form factors.
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