16-core Ultra 9 386H spotted alongside Acer Predator gaming laptop
Panther Lake is finally showing its claws.
The Core Ultra 9 386H, the 16-core Panther Lake-H processor with 4 P-cores, 8 E-cores and 4 LP-cores (E and LP shown as 12 cores), has been spotted on Geekbench. This CPU is one of the flagship SKUs that will launch next year for laptops. The important bit is in the name. The Ultra X9 is not the same SKU as Ultra 9, the former has 12 Xe3 cores, whereas this SKU will only have 4. The reason is that it focuses on a different user, in this case gaming.
The Ultra 9 386H is not designed for use with integrated graphics. Instead, this CPU will be paired with dedicated graphics. Hence the leak is from the Acer Predator gaming laptop series. Here we do not know what graphics this laptop has, though.
What the leak confirms is that the CPU has a 2.1 GHz base clock (E/LP cores) and a boost clock of 4.724 GHz. Previous leaks suggested it might actually be higher (up to 4.9 GHz), so either some information is incorrect, or this CPU is not showing its full potential yet.
Source: Geekbench
Compared to the Core Ultra 9 285H, the current Arrow Lake-H flagship for gaming laptops, this SKU is 9% and 4% faster in single- and multi-threaded tests respectively. Do note that the Ultra 9 285HX, based on desktop silicon with 24 cores, is still much faster than this SKU, especially in multi-core tests (Geekbench does not list it in a ranking but you can find results here ).
Perhaps our chart would make more sense if it were sorted by series (X/H/P/U/UL, etc.), but leakers have not provided a full list yet and there is limited information on TDP ranges. We believe that sorting the list by CPU core specs makes more sense for now.
Intel will officially launch the new Core Ultra 300 series at CES. The company already confirmed the launch event last week.
| Intel Core Ultra 300 (RUMORED) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz | Cores⤵️ | Max Boost | GPU Cores | Default TDP / Max TDP |
| Core Ultra X9 388H | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 5.1 GHz | Arc B390 12 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 9 386H ⬅️ | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 4.9 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra X7 368H | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 5.0 GHz | Arc B390 12 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 7 366H | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 4.8 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra X7 358H | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 4.8 GHz | Arc B390 12 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 7 356H | 16C (4P+8E+4LP) | 4.7 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 5 338H | 12C (4P+4E+4LP) | 4.7 GHz | Arc B370 10 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 5 336H | 12C (4P+4E+4LP) | 4.6 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/65-80W |
| Core Ultra 7 365 | 8C (4P+0E+4LP) | 4.8 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
| Core Ultra 7 355 | 8C (4P+0E+4LP) | 4.7 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
| Core Ultra 5 335 | 8C (4P+0E+4LP) | 4.6 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
| Core Ultra 5 325 | 8C (4P+0E+4LP) | 4.5 GHz | 4 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
| Core Ultra 5 332 | 6C (2P+0E+4LP) | 4.4 GHz | 2 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
| Core Ultra 5 322 | 6C (2P+0E+4LP) | 4.4 GHz | 2 Xe3 | 25W/55W |
Source: Geekbench
