- A leak has surfaced for the rumored Intel Core Ultra X7 358H
- This Panther Lake processor is presented with a strong Geekbench graphics score
- This is better than a previous leak of 7%, indicating that Intel’s driver refinement is going well with Panther Lake.
Intel’s new Panther Lake laptop processors are once again generating excitement as another leak paints a picture of chips with fast graphics and gaming performance.
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 has benchmarked.
The Core Ultra It’s also 7% faster than a previous Geekbench leak for this Core Ultra X7 358H processor.
Why this considerable improvement? This is due to Intel’s refinement and improvements to the GPU drivers closer to release. Panther Lake is expected to debut on laptops in early 2026, and what’s exciting here is that we could have more performance improvements before these mobile processors hit laptops on shelves.
The Core Ultra (Even if you ignore the low-power cores, which are tiny, this is a 12-core processor).
Analysis: Panther Lake Promise
With the Xe3 integrated graphics hitting the 57,000 mark in OpenCL, that means the Panther Lake CPU outperforms the RTX 3050 laptop’s discrete GPU by more than about 10%. In other words, we’re looking at something on par with the RTX 3050 Ti here, and if we get further performance improvements before Panther Lake launches, this Xe3 GPU could even edge out this standalone Nvidia GPU.
This once again illustrates the kind of progress being made with graphics solutions integrated into processors, making it possible to create very thin and light gaming laptops that can be more affordable. Remember that a standalone GPU takes up space in a laptop chassis, requires more cooling efforts, and also increases the total cost of the device.
Not to mention that the Xe3 graphics here use much less power than those of an Nvidia RTX 3050, which are typically 60W to 80W, while the entire chip only uses it with the Core Ultra X7 358H (depending on the laptop configuration in both cases, mind you). This should translate into significantly better battery life with Intel’s Arc integrated solution, no doubt about it.
Granted, Geekbench isn’t the first benchmark I’d turn to to gauge a graphics card’s gaming prowess, but it does offer an indication of GPU performance levels. Indeed, we might see synthetic gaming benchmarks – or real in-game testing – show that this Panther Lake chip has even more punch to pack than is suggested here.
This impending line of mobile processors from Intel looks to be a strong contender to seriously boost budget gaming laptops in terms of (battery) efficiency and performance. In fact, this will be better news for handhelds, which are even more restricted within the claustrophobic confines of their compact form factors.
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