Intel's next generation of mobile processors is on the horizon, and a new leak has given us a sneak peek at what to expect. The Core 7 240H, believed to be part of the rumoured Core 200H family, has surfaced on Geekbench, and based on the entry, it looks like it's a refreshed Raptor Lake processor.
Spotted in an Acer Nitro ANV15-52 gaming laptop equipped with an RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (via Benchleaks), the Core 7 240H packs a 10-core (6 Performance + 4 Efficient) configuration with 16 threads. The Geekbench listing refers to it as “Raptor Lake”, suggesting a refresh of the Raptor Lake mobile architecture. As such, don't expect it to feature an NPU like the Lunar Lake processors.
With a base clock of 2.5 GHz, a boost clock of up to 5.1 GHz, and 24 MB of L3 cache, the Core 7 240H appears to be pretty much a refreshed Core i7-13620H with higher boost clock speeds. The Geekbench entry also shows the Core 7 240H achieved a single-core score of 2,689 and a multi-core score of 13,330. These figures put it on par with the Core i7-13620H in multi-core performance but slightly ahead in single-core capabilities.
Based on Intel's Xe architecture, the integrated graphics of the Core 7 240H also show promising results. With 64 EUs (equivalent to 8 Xe-Cores) and a maximum clock speed of 1.5 GHz, the iGPU achieved OpenCL scores close to 13.5K points, offering solid performance for everyday tasks and general computing. Intel hasn't officially announced the Core 200H series, but that will likely change at CES 2025.
KitGuru says: If you were going to buy a laptop now, would AI performance matter to you, or would something like the Core 7 240H be good enough?