Intel Vision Intel claims its upcoming Lunar Lake processors will have over 100 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) of AI performance – 45 of them from its neural processing unit (NPU).
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Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has previously claimed that Lunar Lake (and its higher-performance counterpart, Arrow Lake) would have tripled the AI performance of Meteor Lake – Intel's current offering for powering "AI PCs". Since Meteor Lake has up to 34 TOPS in total from its NPU, GPU and CPU cores, that would put Lunar Lake at roughly 102 TOPS – suggesting that "over 100 TOPS" isn't too much beyond triple digits.
Intel's breakdown of Lunar Lake's TOPS by component reveals a 45 TOPS NPU, with the lion's share of the remaining 55 TOPS or so likely coming from the GPU. By comparison, 11 of Meteor Lake's 34 TOPS are from the NPU – meaning the Lunar Lake NPU has a little over four times the processing power of the portion found in Meteor Lake processors.
In a presentation at its Vision conference on Tuesday, Intel didn't specify which technology delivered such a significant improvement in NPU performance — but upgrading to a new node (rumored to be either Intel's 18A or TSMC's N3B) is likely a factor .
