Intel Meteor Lake laptop CPU with 16 cores and 22 threads appears in Geekbench

Details have emerged about an Intel Core Ultra 7 1002H laptop processor. This CPU is based on the Meteor Lake architecture and has 16 cores and 22 threads. Intel will officially announce Meteor Lake later this month at its Innovation event.

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The unannounced Intel Core Ultra 7 1002H recently appeared in the Geekbench database, noted @BenchLeaks. The laptop processor has 6 P-cores with hyperthreading and 10 more efficient E-cores. This means that the CPU has a total of 16 cores and 22 threads. However, two of those E-cores are incorporated in the SoC chiplet, as Intel previously confirmed. These extra E-cores are rumored to be used for connected standby. According to the Geekbench listing, the Core Ultra 7 1002H has a clock speed of 3.4GHz with boost clocks up to 5.0GHz. The listing also mentions 24MB L3 cache. The chip achieves single- and multi-core scores of 2439 and 12,668 respectively.

The Core Ultra 7 1002H shown is a so-called qualification sample. These CPUs usually do not yet have the final product name. The release version of the chip may also have a different model name. According to VideoCardz the CPU may be called the Core Ultra 7 165H, although that has not yet been officially confirmed. Intel previously said that it will remove the ‘i’ from its CPU model names and introduce a ‘Core Ultra’ brand.

Intel previously shared some details about its upcoming Meteor Lake platform. With these chips, Intel is switching to a design with so-called tiles, a type of chiplets. For example, the processors will have a compute tile with the CPU cores, a GFX tile with an integrated GPU and a SoC tile that includes a neural processing unit and the two extra E-cores. Intel will officially announce its Meteor Lake processors at its Innovation event next week.