Initial benchmark of Intel’s Meteor Lake P processor in Cinebench R23

As reported, MSI showed off a new laptop at the Computex booth, and the Notebookcheck team noticed that the model uses Intel’s next-generation chip. It is not yet clear why MSI would put such an engineering sample up for public viewing, but the website Wccftech managed to release the initial benchmark of Intel’s Meteor Lake P processor using this laptop.

Apparently, the members of this website have managed to install a benchmark software while having the laptop at their disposal without any disturbance from MSI. They quickly installed Cinebench and HWiNFO and confirmed that the said notebook processor is exactly a new example of the blue giant.

MSI Prestige 16 EVO/Studio is a laptop with a Meteor Lake P/H/U class processor that uses 6 powerful cores and 10 low-power cores (two on the SoC). It should be noted that this version is an engineering sample and cannot use the maximum potential of the chip. Of course, the laptop was not connected to the charger during the test, which obviously results in lower performance.

Initial benchmark of Intel’s Meteor Lake P processor

It has also been recognized in the integrated Arc graphics software that it will be based on the Xe LPG architecture (a low-power version of the Arc discrete graphics series). This integrated graphics uses 128 execution units, which will include 1024 cores and has the same specifications as the desktop Arc A380 series.

This Intel processor uses the thermal power of 15 W PL1 and 28 W PL2 (configurable in the range of 20 to 65 W). According to the current information of HWiNFO, apparently this model will have a maximum energy consumption of up to 121 watts.

The Meteor Lake engineering sample recorded a score of 4261 in the Cinebench R23 multi-core benchmark, and unfortunately there was not enough time for a single-core test as MSI has noticed the issue. In any case, the obtained score shows that only the processor had only 21% efficiency and the frequency of the entire core was around 640 MHz. Obviously, we still have to wait for better benchmarks, but Meteor Lake seems to provide excellent performance.