Intel Core Ultra X9 Panther Lake Outguns AMD’s Strix Halo In New Leak

It's really important to keep things in context when you're looking at hardware benchmarks. Desktop CPUs often operate with essentially unlimited power and thermal budgets, so it's simply not fair to compare them against laptop chips that must constantly keep power draw in check to deal with thermal constraints and to avoid draining batteries too quickly. With that in mind, let's compare this fresh Panther Lake leak against AMD's current flagship mobile part, the Ryzen AI Max+ 395.

Above are the scores for a leaked Intel Core Ultra X9 388H Geekbench result. For comparison's sake, the "official" scores from the Geekbench browser for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 are 2792 on a single thread, and 17680 for all threads. Now, that result represents an average score for the processor based on user-submitted benchmarks; our own testing found that the same chip in the ASUS ...