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Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors

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Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors are optimized for premium thin and powerful laptops, featuring 3D performance hybrid architecture, advanced AI capabilities, and available with built-in Intel® Arc™ GPU.1 2 Created using the new Intel 4 process, Intel® Core™ Ultra processors deliver an optimal balance of performance and power efficiency for gaming, content creation, and productivity on the go.

Next-Gen Performance Hybrid

Intel continues to innovate with improvements to its revolutionary performance hybrid architecture. Intel® Core™ Ultra processors feature 3D performance hybrid architecture, combining two core microarchitectures on a single processor chip.1 Each core type is purpose-built for specific kinds of tasks, leading to supercharged performance paired with a battery that lasts.

Performance-cores are optimized for lightly and singlethreaded workloads like performance and gaming, while Efficient-cores are optimized for scaling highly threaded workloads. The newest core type, Low-power Efficient-cores, are designed for scalable multithreaded performance and offloading background tasks. Meanwhile, Intel® Thread Director prioritizes and manages distribution of workloads, sending tasks to optimized cores.3

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors also feature a suite of Intel’s cutting-edge performance tools and services. Intel® Adaptive Boost is designed to increase gaming and multi-core performance by intelligently boosting the processor to run faster than its rated frequency as power, heat, and workload allow. Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 directs critical workloads to them as power, heat, and workload allow.4

Immersive Experiences

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors are designed to deliver immersive experiences wherever you go, featuring discrete-level graphics, best-in-class connectivity,5 and enhanced media technology.

With an Intel® Arc™ GPU built-in, AI powers advanced creation and gameplay2. Enjoy the high performance needed for accelerated content creation and immersive high-resolution gaming, even while on the go. Combine this with AV1 encode and decode, HDMI 2.1,6 DisplayPort 2.1, support for four simultaneous 4K displays, a new audio DSP, and you get visual and audio experiences worthy of the premium title!

Immersion also means easy and reliable connection with peripherals and the internet! Integrated Thunderbolt™ 4 technology lets you connect multiple displays, storage, charging, and other peripherals while support for Intel® WiFi 7 and Intel® Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth 5.4 and 5.3 delivers supercharged wireless performance and enables seamless, immersive online gameplay. Intel® Double Connect Technology enhances your Wi-Fi gaming experience by simultaneously connecting over two Wi-Fi bands and prioritizing gaming traffic on the faster band!

Accelerating AI Innovation

Whether you're working, collaborating, creating, or playing, Intel® Core™ Ultra processors deliver three dedicated engines (CPU, GPU, and NPU) to help unlock the power of AI, create immersive graphics experiences, and enable high-performance low-power processing.

Intel® AI Boost is an integrated AI engine for low-power AI acceleration and CPU/GPU off-load, while Intel® Gaussian & Neural Accelerator processes AI speech and audio applications while simultaneously freeing up CPU resources for overall system performance and responsiveness.

Intel is working with leading industry ISVs to optimize your experience with AI. With AI tools and laptops powered by Intel® Core™ Ultra processors, you can be your own digital artist, writer, or musician!

  • Generate an image of whatever is on your mind in a couple of keystrokes.

  • Remix your favorite song with just a few simple clicks and text entries, or separate the vocals and create a quick karaoke hit.

  • Make your photos more vibrant with intelligent lighting correction that amplifies every detail.

  • Dramatically enhance boring photos by adding a more colorful sky or dropping in a mysterious fog, all with remarkable detail and realism.

Intel vPro® Platform

Intel vPro® platform enabled laptops change how businesses use, secure, and manage devices.

The commercial PC market is propelled by premium computing solutions that drive user productivity and help service organizations protect and maintain devices. Intel® Core™ Ultra processors shape the future of commercial computing in four major ways:

  • A holistic approach to power-efficiency that benefits mobile/hybrid work.

  • AI-optimized architecture that supports new user experiences and the next wave of commercial applications.

  • New platform protections that reduce the attack surface of PCs.

  • A new way for cloud services and tools to interact with PCs and leverage deeper telemetry to help inform device management decisions.

These four advancements represent inflection points impacting all future commercial PC offerings.

Laptops that feature Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and meet Intel vPro® Evo™ Edition design requirements employ the latest power-efficiency guidelines, resulting in cooler and quieter devices with longer battery life and consistent responsiveness whether running off AC or battery power.

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors further elevate mobile collaboration with support for AI-assisted background blur, noise suppression, eye tracking, and picture framing. In addition, scores of commercial apps and AI features further enhance the user experience for common content creation and productivity tasks.

The integrated AI engine on Intel® Core™ Ultra processors is designed to make security software more powerful and efficient at detecting anomalies that signal potential security breaches.

Intel® Core™ Ultra processors also feature a security engine that is used to authenticate select system firmware, providing a new platform protection mechanism that will scale across silicon generations.

Finally, this platform introduces the Intel® Innovation Platform Framework (Intel® IPF) as the new in-band management interface for Intel vPro® platform enabled laptops. Intel® IPF provides device management software with a new way to interact with Intel vPro® platform features.

Intel® Evo™ Platform

Engineered to do it all—that’s a laptop evolved.

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 cuttingedge 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, instant wake, and best-in-class connectivity.5

Intel® Unison™ software 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.7

Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors: Features at a Glance

FEATURE BENEFIT
3D Performance Hybrid Architecture1 Integrates two core microarchitectures onto a single chip, prioritizing and distributing workloads to optimize performance.
Intel® Thread Director3 Optimizes workloads by helping the OS scheduler intelligently distribute workloads to the optimal cores.
Intel® AI Boost / Intel® NPU Integrated AI engine for low-power AI acceleration and CPU/GPU off-load.
Intel® Arc™ GPU2 With an Intel® Arc™ GPU built-in, AI powers advanced creation and gameplay. Enjoy the high performance needed for accelerated creation and immersive high-resolution gaming, even while on the go.
Intel® Graphics Intel® Graphics powers the everyday media and display capabilities of mobile systems, bringing new capabilities such as AV1 encode/decode.
Intel® Smart Cache CPU memory caching method for sharing among P-cores, E-cores, and processor graphics if applicable.
Endurance Gaming Mode8 Dynamic Performance and Power management deliver longer battery life without compromising gameplay.
Intel® Deep Learning Boost Intel® Deep Learning Boost significantly accelerates inference performance for deep-learning workloads optimized to use VNNI and DP4a.
Intel® Adaptive Boost Technology Intelligently boosts the processor to run faster than its rated frequency as power, heat, and workload allow.
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 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® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.04 Identifies the processor’s fastest cores and directs critical workloads to them as power, heat, and workload allow.
Intel® Speed Shift Technology Intel® Speed Shift Technology is an energy efficient method of frequency control by the hardware rather than relying on OS control.
Intel® Unison™ Software7 Intel® Unison™ software seamlessly connects your PC and devices for a universal, easy to use experience.
Intel® Adaptix™ Dynamic Tuning Technology9 Intel® Adaptix™ Suite allows PC engineers or end users to achieve the best possible experience with optimized performance, extended battery life, and power efficiency.
Intel® Intelligent Display Technology10 Combining ecosystem display panel innovation with Intel® software to deliver battery life boost, enhanced visual experience, and sustainability benefits.
Intel® Connectivity Performance Suite Use all your PC’s networking technologies simultaneously for great connected experiences.
Intel® Dynamic Power Share11 Dynamically shifts power between CPU and GPU to optimize platform thermals and unleash amazing performance.
Intel® Gaussian & Neural Accelerator 3.5 (GNA 3.5) Designed to process AI speech and audio applications such as neural noise cancellation while simultaneously freeing up CPU resources for overall system performance and responsiveness.
Thunderbolt™ 4 Technology Support (USB 4 Compliant) Universal cable connectivity for a simple, reliable connection that provides incredible performance.
Intel® Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+) Support Integrated wireless for 6 GHz connections. Wi-Fi 6E-enabled devices can take advantage of the newer 6 GHz frequency band for further improved connectivity.
Discrete Wi-Fi 7 (5 Gig) Support12 The next step in the evolution of wireless connectivity is improving speed, responsiveness, and reliability.
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Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors SKU Comparison—H Series

  Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 165H Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 135H Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 125H Processor
Processor Cores13 16 (6+8+2) 16 (6+8+2) 14 (4+8+2) 14 (4+8+2)
Processor Threads 22 22 18 18
Intel® Smart Cache (LLC) 24 MB 24 MB 18 MB 18 MB
P-core Max Turbo Frequency13 Up to 5.0 GHz Up to 4.8 GHz Up to 4.6 GHz Up to 4.5 GHz
E-core Max Turbo Frequency13 Up to 3.8 GHz Up to 3.8 GHz Up to 3.6 GHz Up to 3.6 GHz
Processor Graphics2 Intel® Arc™ GPU
Graphics Max Frequency Up to 2.3 GHz Up to 2.25 GHz Up to 2.2 GHz Up to 2.2 GHz
Xe-cores 8 8 8 7
Neural Processor Intel® AI Boost
Neural Compute Engines 2x Gen3
Total PCIe Lanes 1 (x8) Gen 5 + 3 (x4) Gen 4 + 8 (x1, x2, x4) Gen4 Configurable
Max Memory Speed14 DDR5-5600 | LPDDR5/x-7467
Max Memory Capacity 64 GB (LP5) | 96 GB (DDR5)
Processor Max Turbo Power 64 W, 115 W
Processor Base Power 28 W
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Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors: SKU Comparison—U Series

  Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 165U Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155U Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 135U Processor Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 125U Processor
Processor Cores13 12 (2+8+2) 12 (2+8+2) 12 (2+8+2) 12 (2+8+2)
Processor Threads 14 14 14 14
Intel® Smart Cache (LLC) 12 MB 12 MB 12 MB 12 MB
P-core Max Turbo Frequency15 Up to 4.9 GHz Up to 4.8 GHz Up to 4.4 GHz Up to 4.3 GHz
E-core Max Turbo Frequency15 Up to 3.8 GHz Up to 3.8 GHz Up to 3.6 GHz Up to 3.6 GHz
Processor Graphics Intel® Graphics
Graphics Max Frequency Up to 2.0 GHz Up to 1.95 GHz Up to 1.9 GHz Up to 1.85 GHz
Xe-cores 4 4 4 4
Neural Processor Intel® AI Boost
Neural Compute Engines 2x Gen3
Total PCIe Lanes 3 (x4) Gen 4 + 8 (x1, x2, x4) Gen4 Configurable
Max Memory Speed14 DDR5-5600 | LPDDR5/x-7467
Max Memory Capacity 64 GB (LP5) | 96 GB (DDR5)
Processor Max Turbo Power 57 W
Processor Base Power 15 W
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Notices and Disclaimers16 17 18 19 20 21 22

Product and Performance Information

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3D Performance Hybrid Architecture: Performance hybrid architecture combines two core microarchitectures, Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient-cores (E-cores), on a single processor die first introduced on 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors. Select 12th Gen and newer Intel® Core™ processors do not have performance hybrid architecture, only P-cores or E-cores, and may have the same cache size. See ark.intel.com for SKU details, including cache size and core frequency.

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Intel® Arc™ GPUs: Intel® Arc™ GPUs only available on select H-series Intel® Core™ Ultra processor powered systems with at least 16GB of system memory in a dual-channel configuration. OEM enablement required; check with OEM or retailer for system configuration details.

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Intel® Thread Director: Built into the hardware, Intel® Thread Director is provided only in performance hybrid architecture configurations of newer Intel® Core™ Ultra processors; OS enablement is required. Available features and functionality vary by OS.

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Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0: Available on H-series Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 and H-series Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 processors. See ark.intel.com for details.

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Best-in-class Connectivity: Intel® Wi-Fi 7 (5 Gig) & Intel® Wi-Fi 6/6E (Gig+) products enable the fastest possible maximum speed for typical laptop Wi-Fi products. Thunderbolt™ 4 technology is the fastest port currently available on a laptop, at 40 Gb/s, as compared to other laptop I/O connection technologies including eSATA, USB, and IEEE 1394 Firewire. Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. See www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex (connectivity) for details.

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HDMI 2.1: Includes Fixed Rate Link (FRL) mode with support up to 12 Gbps.

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Intel® Unison™ solution is currently available for eligible Intel® Evo™ designs on Windows-based PCs powered by 13th Gen Intel Core or newer 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.

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Endurance Gaming Mode: Intel® Arc™ Control, Endurance Gaming Software (installable with Intel® Arc™ Control), Intel® Graphics Driver (installable with Intel® Arc™ Control and Intel® Dynamic Tuning Technology with EPO and EG Policy enabled).

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Intel® Adaptix™ Dynamic Tuning Technology: Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.

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Intel® Intelligent Display Technology: Intel® Core™ Ultra processors enable Intel® Intelligent Display capabilities. System requirements must include compatible TCON and display panel.

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Intel® Dynamic Power Share: Please work through Intel’s Customer Engineering and Account teams to explore enabling options. Contact your Intel representative.

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Wi-Fi 7: Wi-Fi 7 is subject to regional availability and operation requires use of Intel® Wi-Fi 7 (5 Gig) products in conjunction with operating systems and routers/APs/Gateways that support Wi-Fi 7. Learn more at https://www.intel.com/performance-wireless.

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P-cores, E-cores, and Low-power E-Cores: 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+E+LPE).

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Memory Speed & Capacity: For latest memory configurations and speeds, refer to ark.intel.com. DDR5 top speed enabled with specific DIMMs, other DIMMs may operate with one speed bin lower and different SAGV points. (1 SPC,1 DPC, 1R).

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Processor Core Frequencies: The frequency of cores and core types varies by workload, power consumption, and other factors. Visit https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/turbo-boost/turbo-boost-technology.html for more information.

16 Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Learn more at www.Intel.com/PerformanceIndex.
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AI Features: AI features may require software purchase, subscription, or enablement by a software or platform provider, or may have specific configuration or compatibility requirements. Details at www.intel.com/PerformanceIndex. Results may vary.

18Performance results are based on testing as of dates shown in configurations and may not reflect all publicly available ​updates. See intel.com/Evo for additional details.
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All versions of the Intel vPro® platform require an eligible Intel processor, a supported operating system, Intel® LAN and/or WLAN silicon, firmware enhancements, and other hardware and software necessary to deliver the manageability use cases, security features, system performance, and stability that define the platform. See intel.com/performance-vpro for details.

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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.

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Your costs and results may vary.

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Intel technologies may require enabled hardware, software, or service activation.