Intel began its participation at CES 2025 with the announcement of new powerful mobile processors Core Ultra 200HX (Arrow Lake-HX). These chips are designed for premium gaming laptops and mobile workstations that will provide the maximum level of performance.
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Essentially, the Core Ultra 200HX chips are mobile incarnations of the desktop Core Ultra 200S models and offer the maximum number of processing cores available in the new Arrow Lake architecture. In the maximum configuration, the new products contain eight productive P-cores and 16 energy-efficient E-cores. The processors also include an AI accelerator (NPU) with a performance of 13 TOPS (trillion operations per second). This does not allow them to be classified as Copilot Plus PC devices, but it is quite enough to speed up the work of basic AI functions.
The integrated graphics of the Core Ultra 200HX processors surprises only with the minimal number of execution units available in Arrow Lake generation processors. However, this is explained by the fact that these processors were developed for use in powerful laptops with discrete video cards.
The Core Ultra 200HX series of mobile processors includes:
- 24-core (8P+16E) Core Ultra 9 285HX with up to 5.5 GHz and Core Ultra 9 275HX with up to 5.4 GHz;
- 20-core (8P+12E) models Core Ultra 7 265HX with a frequency of up to 5.3 GHz and Core Ultra 7 255HX with a frequency of up to 5.2 GHz;
- 14-core (6P+8E) models Core Ultra 5 245HX and Core Ultra 5 235HX with a frequency of up to 5.1 GHz (the younger one has a lower E-core frequency).
According to Intel’s official press release, Core Ultra 200HX delivers approximately 5% higher single-threaded performance and 20% higher multi-threaded performance compared to Raptor Lake-H Refresh series chips.
The key difference between the Core Ultra 200HX processors and the Core Ultra 200H series (also presented at the exhibition) is the support for I/O interfaces. HX series chips offer:
- Support for at least one PCI Express 5.0 x16 interface for discrete graphics;
- Support for two NVMe from the processor (one PCIe 5.0 and one PCIe 4.0);
- Wide chipset bus with DMI 4.0 x8;
- Thunderbolt 4 support.
Intel expects the first devices based on Core Ultra 200HX processors to appear by the end of the first quarter of 2025 (around mid-March).