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Intel® Core™ Ultra Mobile Processors (Series 2) Product Brief

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Intel® Core™ Ultra mobile processors (Series 2) are high-efficiency processors built to deliver next-gen AI experiences in sleek and slim mobile form factors, featuring the latest generation of P-core and low-power E-core processor architectures, an enhanced NPU 4.0 AI Engine, and available with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPUs1 driven by new Xe2 architecture.

Breakthrough x86 Power Efficiency

Four next-gen low-power E-cores optimized for tasks requiring less power, along with new power, thermal, and acoustic features, help create powerhouse thin & light systems.

Next-Gen Core Architecture

Next-Gen P-Core Next-Gen E-Cores
Rearchitected for efficient power performance, featuring AI-based power management, an enhanced memory subsystem, PPA optimizations, and up to 12 MB of shared L3 cache. Our most efficient performant architecture, with up to 4 MB shared L2 cache and 2x AI throughput from 4 128-bit FP & SIMD vector.
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Exceptional Core Performance

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors (Series 2) feature 4 P-cores and 4-E-cores built with Intel’s latest processor architectures.

4 Next-Gen P-Cores 4 Next-Gen E-Cores
Designed for priority tasks and workloads, optimized for power efficiency. Up to 5.1 GHz Max Turbo Frequency Housed in a dedicated cluster with their own cache, optimized for lower priority tasks requiring less power. Up to 3.7 GHz Max Turbo Frequency
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Maximizing Performance, Minimizing Power Use

  • Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 - Accelerates processor and graphics performance for peak loads.
  • Intel® Adaptive Boost Technology - Intelligently boosts the processor to run faster than its rated frequency.
  • Intel® Speedshift Technology - An energy-efficient method of frequency control by the hardware.

  • Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology - Power optimization tools that intelligently adapt power policies.
  • Intel® Deep Learning Boost - Significantly accelerates inference performance for deep-learning workloads optimized to use VNNI.
  • Intel® Smart Cache Technology - CPU memory caching method for sharing among P-cores, E-cores, and processor graphics if applicable.

Massive Leap in Graphics

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors (Series 2) provide discrete-level graphics for thin & light laptops.

  • NEW Built-in Intel® Arc™ GPU1 delivers power-efficient DirectX 12 Ultimate performance
    • 8 Xe-cores
    • 64 vector engines
    • 8 MB cache
  • The first DirectX 12 Ultimate GPU in the world to leverage LPDDR memory on package
  • XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) and Intel® XMX (Xe Matrix Extensions) AI engines provide AI upscaling and raytracing performance for graphics far beyond what people expect from thin & light systems

Unmatched AI Compute

New NPU (Neural Processing Unit)

Up to

2x

bandwidth compared to previous generation

Up to

48

TOPS3

Up to

2x

bandwidth compared to previous generation

Up to

48

TOPS3

The Foundation of the AI PC

High Throughput

GPU

Ideal for AI-accelerated digital content creation.

Low Power

NPU

Ideal for sustained AI workloads and AI offload for battery life.

Fast Response

CPU

Ideal for low-latency AI workloads.

High Throughput

GPU

Ideal for AI-accelerated digital content creation.

Low Power

NPU

Ideal for sustained AI workloads and AI offload for battery life.

Fast Response

CPU

Ideal for low-latency AI workloads.

  • Leadership AI Engines: ~4x NPU AI throughput and ~3x GPU AI throughput*
  • Comprehensive AI: With more than 300 AI-accelerated ISV features, your customers’ favorite AI tools and services run great on Intel® Core™ Ultra processors
  • Intel® XMX (Xe Matrix Extensions): 16x compute capabilities for AI inferencing operations when compared to traditional GPU vector units**

  • Intel® XeSS: AI image upscaling to improve performance and graphics
  • Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology:
    • Energy Performance Optimizer: Intelligent, predictive, and efficient system optimization engine for performance and long battery life
    • Intelligent Thermal Management: Maximizes performance with runtime thermal monitoring

Intel vPro® Platform Helps Organizations Maximize Value from AI

New commercial devices with Intel Core Ultra processors fuel operational excellence and help organizations achieve better business outcomes

AI Empowers People to Achieve New Levels of Productivity.

Visual and audio effects help employees look and sound their best while collaborating remotely, with the top enterprise solutions optimized for Intel® Core™ Ultra processors. Personal assistants and large language models promise to streamline daily workflows, meeting preparation, and project management. Specific Intel® Core™ Ultra mobile processors (Series 2) can power these demanding AI workloads, delivering the responsiveness and lower latency users require. The combined power of the CPU, GPU, and NPU enables higher quality work to be executed faster in the areas of content creation, data visualization, design, research, and similar tasks common to business professionals. Intel® Core™ Ultra processors enable better business outcomes everywhere AI PCs are deployed.

As security threats grow more sophisticated, the need for advanced detection and protection technologies grows as well. Intel® Core™ Ultra processors extend the NPU to third-party security software vendors, enabling applications to become more effective and efficient at detecting and responding to threats. In addition, the Intel vPro® platform provides a more secure computing foundation for AI apps and data with a robust set of security features that PC manufacturers must design into every PC bearing the Intel vPro® badge.

Device management applications rely on endpoint data to make the right configuration, maintenance, and servicing decisions. Intel® Device Discovery provides a method for local and remote applications to obtain greater visibility into endpoints, with a robust data set spanning device profile, history, and capabilities. This includes an inventory of Intel vPro® platform features present and their configuration state. The wealth of data generated by Intel® Device Discovery may be used by applications to generate PC health assessments, determine the security posture of a PC, or learn how to best configure and maintain a device. Greater visibility into endpoints becomes vital as IT operations embrace AI and automation.

Intel® Evo™ Platform

Engineered to do it all.

Intel® Evo™ laptops powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors deliver a no-compromise premium mobile experience by verifying that each laptop design meets the premium standards you desire. We are continually adding innovative features that evolve the laptop experience. Intel spent thousands of hours studying the way people use their laptops in real life and then collaborated with leading PC makers to co-engineer, optimize, and verify these laptop designs. To obtain the Intel® Evo™ brand seal of approval, laptop designs must pass rigorous testing around performance, battery life, connectivity, audio & visual quality, size, weight, and more. And to ensure an evolving laptop experience, innovative features are continuously built in and introduced for the first time through Intel® Evo™ laptops. The result is a sleek and stylish premium laptop that delivers cutting-edge innovation and the ideal combination of world-class performance, outstanding graphics, and ultimate mobility with features like fast-charging & long-lasting battery, consistent responsiveness on battery, and instant wake.

Intel® Unison™ software4 has an intuitive one-time setup that’s fast, easy, and does not require an email or cloud account to set up and use. Intel® Unison™ software is flexible, letting you connect your choice of PC and phone or tablet (Android or iOS) to do file transfers, photo sharing, text messaging, phone calls, and notifications all from your PC without waking up your phone.

Features at a Glance

Feature Benefit
Power-Efficient Core Architectures Integrates P-cores and low-power E-cores onto a single chip. Low-power E-cores given separate cluster with dedicated cache optimized for lower priority tasks at reduced power.
NPU A neural processing unit is a processor built for handling AI & machine learning tasks. Select Intel® Core™ Ultra processors include a CPU, a GPU, and an NPU.
TOPS Trillions of operations per second. Measures performance of NPUs, much like how GHz measures performance of CPUs.
Built-in Intel® Arc™ GPU1 Driven by Xe2 Architecture

Select Intel® Core™ Ultra processors include an Intel® Arc™ GPU,1 providing discrete-class graphics for mobile form factors.

The latest Xe2 architecture provides great performance at lower power, perfect for gaming or AI on-the-go.
Intel® Smart Cache CPU memory caching method for sharing among P-cores, E-cores, and processor graphics if applicable.
Intel® Deep Learning Boost Significantly accelerates inference performance for deep-learning workloads optimized on the CPU.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Accelerates processor and graphics performance for peak loads, automatically allowing processor cores to run faster than the rated operating frequency if they’re operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.
Intel® Adaptive Boost Technology Opportunistically increases all-core turbo frequency when current, power, and thermal headroom exists. Works below a temperature limit of 100°C.
Intel® Speedshift Technology An energy-efficient method of frequency control by the hardware rather than relying on OS control.
Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology Power optimization tools that intelligently adapt power policies based on usage mode and temperature, with a new policy that determines and directs application resource optimization in real-time.
XeSS (Xe Super Sampling) Renders a game at a lower resolution, then upscales the image using AI to a higher resolution with quality similar (or better) to a native render, providing high-quality graphics and stellar performance at the same time.
Intel® Intelligent Display Technology2 Automatically adjust brightness, refresh rate, and contrast based on what the user is doing or the content on screen. Ex. Turning down brightness when user looks away, or matching screen refresh rate to video FPS.
Intel® XMX AI Engines (Xe Matrix extensions) AI engines integrated into the Xe-cores of Intel® Arc™ GPUs.1 They have 16 times the compute capabilities to complete AI inferencing operations when compared to traditional GPU vector units,** which can enable performance boosts in many productivity, gaming, and creator applications.
Endurance Gaming Mode Extends playtime on battery by balancing frame rate and power consumption.
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SKU Chart

Processor Number Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 processor 288V Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 processor 268V Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 processor 266V Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 processor 258V Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 processor 256V Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 processor 238V Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 processor 236V Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 processor 228V Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 processor 226V
Processor Cores (P-cores + LP E-cores)5

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)

8

(4+4)
Processor Threads 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
Intel® Smart Cache (LLC) 12 MB 12 MB 12 MB 12 MB 12 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB 8 MB
Max Turbo Frequency6 P-core

Up to

5.1 GHz

Up to

5.0 GHz

Up to

5.0 GHz

Up to

4.8 GHz

Up to

4.8 GHz

Up to

4.7 GHz

Up to

4.7 GHz

Up to

4.5 GHz

Up to

4.5 GHz
E-core

Up to

3.7 GHz

Up to

3.7 GHz

Up to

3.7 GHz

Up to

3.7 GHz

Up to

3.7 GHz

Up to

3.5 GHz

Up to

3.5 GHz

Up to

3.5 GHz

Up to

3.5 GHz
Graphics Max Frequency

Up to 

2.05 GHz

Up to 

2.0 GHz

Up to 

2.0 GHz

Up to 

1.95 GHz

Up to 

1.95 GHz

Up to 

1.85 GHz

Up to 

1.85 GHz

Up to 

1.85 GHz

Up to 

1.85 GHz
Processor Graphics Intel® Arc™ 140V GPU Intel® Arc™ 130V GPU
Total PCIe Lanes, Thunderbolt™ Technology, Wi-Fi x4 PCIe Gen 5 + x4 PCIe Gen 4 & 3x Integrated TBT4, Integrated Wi-Fi 77
Max Memory Speed8 LPDDR5X-8533 MT/s
Maximum Memory Capacity/Rank 32 GB/2R 32 GB/2R 16 GB/1R 32 GB/2R 16 GB/1R 32 GB/2R 16 GB/1R 32 GB/2R 16 GB/1R
Processor Base Power

30 W

(Minimum: 17 W)

17 W

(Minimum: 8 W)
Maximum Turbo Power 37 W
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Package Platform

Legal disclosures9

Product and Performance Information

1

Intel® Arc™ Graphics: Intel® Arc™ graphics only available on select Intel® Core™ Ultra processor (Series 2) powered systems; minimum processor power required. OEM enablement required. Check with OEM or retailer for system configuration.

2

Intel® Intelligent Display Technology: Intel® Core™ Ultra processors enable Intel® Intelligent Display capabilities. System requirements must include compatible TCON and display panel. Check with OEM or retailer for system configuration.

3

TOPS: All TOPS are “up to” and approximate until final IP frequency defined, different SKUs with different frequency & power targets will have different TOPS.

4

Intel® Unison™ Software: Intel® Unison™ solution is currently available for Intel® Evo™ designs on Windows-based PCs powered by 13th Gen or newer Intel® Core™ CPU and only pairs with Android- or iOS-based phones and tablets; all devices must run a supported OS version. See intel.com/performance-evo for details.

5

Core Counts: Processor cores listed first are the total number of cores in the processor. The number of Performance-cores, Efficient-cores, and Low-power E-cores are listed in parentheses (P+LPE).

6

Max Turbo Frequency: The frequency of cores and core types varies by workload, power consumption, and other factors. Visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/gaming/resources/turbo-boost.html for more information.

7

Intel® Wi-Fi 7 (5 Gig): While Wi-Fi 7 is backward compatible with previous generations, new Wi-Fi 7 features require PCs configured with Intel® Wi-Fi 7 solutions, PC OEM enabling, operating system support, and use with appropriate Wi-Fi 7 routers/Access Points/gateways. 6 GHz Wi-Fi 7 may not be available in all regions. Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. For details on performance claims, learn more at www.intel.com/performance-wireless.

8

Max Memory Speed: For latest memory configurations and speeds, refer to ark.intel.com.

9

Performance varies by use, configuration and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex. Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available updates. See backup for configuration details. No product or component can be absolutely secure.