Intel fills out Core Ultra 200 laptop chips with hodgepodge of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Most of the H-series chips have a base power of 28 W and a maximum Turbo power of up to 60 W, but the high-end Core Ultra 9 285H lists a 45 W base power and 115 W maximum Turbo power level. Per usual, individual PCs with these CPUs will differ slightly based on how the manufacturer configures them.

Both the U- and H-series Core Ultra 200 processors support DDR5-6400 and LPDDR5X-8400 memory, up to four integrated Thunderbolt ports, up to 10 USB 2.0 ports, and up to two USB 3.0 ports.

Intel says that both U- and H-series CPUs will begin shipping in Feburary of 2025.

HX-series: Desktop CPUs for big, beefy laptops

The last chips Intel is announcing today are all in the HX series, and like previous HX-series CPUs, they take Intel’s Arrow Lake desktop silicon and repackage it to fit into hefty gaming laptops and workstations.

This means the Core Ultra 9 HX chips can have up to 24 CPU cores, same as the Core Ultra 9 285K on the desktop—eight P-cores and 16 E-cores, with no LP-E cores. Core Ultra 7 processors step down to 8 P-cores and 12 E-cores, while Core Ultra 5 CPUs get six P-cores and eight E-cores. All processors have either three or four GPU cores, but these are meant primarily for driving displays while the system’s dedicated graphics card handles the heavy lifting. A 13 TOPS NPU is also included, same as in the Core Ultra 200 desktop processors, though this falls well short of Microsoft’s 40 TOPS performance requirement for Copilot+ features.

The extra computing resources do significantly increase these chips’ power usage, though their power levels are still reined in quite a bit compared to the desktop versions of the chips. Base power for all six of the HX-series CPUs is listed at 55 W, while maximum Turbo power is listed at 160 W. Intel says that HX-series systems will launch in “late Q1” of 2025.

This story was updated at 11 am Eastern time on January 6, 2025 to add additional details about the P- and E-core architectures used by U-series Core Ultra 200 processors. We’ve also added availability information for U-series processors.