The power of Intel Core Ultra is revealed for the first time, and the office, AI, and game can be solved in one machine

The release of Intel Core Ultra platform announced the official opening of AI PC in the first year. Among the first batch of Core Ultra platform products, the ASUS Lingyao 14 2024 AI Ultra thin and Light Edition (hereinafter referred to as Lingyao 14 2024) is a representative product. It is lightweight, portable, powerful, and gives consideration to excellent AI computing power, which really brings users a new experience.

First, look at the appearance of Lingyao 14 2024.

This product still maintains the consistent aesthetic and artistic design style of the series. The classic geometric lines and large A logo on the A side, together with the frosting process and the profound night sky blue color matching, create a light and thin business notebook in the style of "great beauty and simplicity". Its body design is very lightweight, ranging from 1.19kg to 13.9mm. The left tail is equipped with one USB-A 3.2 Gen 1 interface, the right side is equipped with one standard HDMI2.1 (TMDS) interface, one 3.5mm headset jack, and two lightning 4 interfaces.

The Ergo Sense ergonomic backlit keyboard on the C-side has a good touch. The 1.4mm middle distance key stroke and 19.05mm spacing bring a good control experience. 13x7.4cm large area touchpad brings a good control experience.

Lingyao 14 2024 continues the "Asus Good Screen" in screen configuration, equipped with a 14 inch 2880x1800 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate (supporting 48-120Hz VRR variable refresh rate) OLED screen, and the overall optical experience is still excellent. In addition, it also supports Rheinland hardware level low blue light strobe free certification, SGS EyeCare eye protection certification, full brightness DC dimming, and has passed the DisplayHDR True Black 600 certification. In SDR mode, the brightness of this screen is 344.45 nits. After HDR is turned on, the maximum brightness reaches 651.44 nits. In addition, in terms of color gamut coverage and color accuracy, Lingyao 14 2024 is also the top level in the industry.

The Core Ultra platform is fully evolved to meet the needs of multiple AI computing

Next, let's take a look at the most important part of this product, namely its core Intel Core Ultra processor Platform.

Lingyao 14 2024 is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, 32GB LPDDR5X 7467MHz high-speed memory, 1TB PCIe 4.0 solid state disk, and part of the GPU is integrated with Intel Sharp Core Display. In addition, it also introduces the NPU module dedicated to AI computing for the first time. Let's take a look at the performance of Intel Core Ultra platform.

according to CPU -Z Information retrieval shows that the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor is composed of 6 performance cores, 8 energy efficiency cores and 2 ultra low power consumption cores, with a total of 16 cores and 22 threads. The highest Remax can reach 4.8GHz, has 24MB of three-level cache, and the TDP is 28W. This processor is built with a new Intel4 manufacturing process, that is, the 7nm manufacturing process. It uses Intel's advanced Foveros 3D packaging technology, and uses a separate modular architecture design for the first time.

First, refer to the single core and multi-core performance of CPU-Z. From the test results, the Core Ultra 7 155H has a single core score of 728.9 and a multi-core score of 7491.4, compared with the 13 generation Core of 28W i7 -For the 1360P, the multi-core performance improved by 27.3%.

Under the CINEBENCH R23 and 2024 test standards, R23 scored 1767 points for single core and 14584 points for multi-core, also significantly improving the multi-core performance of the i7-1360P; In addition, under the CINEBENCH 2024 standard, this processor has a single core score of 106 and a multi-core score of 623.

3DMark Under the CPU Profile test standard, the Core Ultra 7 155H processor has a single thread score of 927, two threads score of 1692, four threads score of 2792, eight threads score of 3804, 16 threads score of 4806, and the maximum thread score of 5013. The overall performance of multi-core performance is really good.

The Core Ultra processor has introduced an NPU computing unit dedicated to AI acceleration. We used UL Procyon's AI test to evaluate the AI performance of the NPU module of the Core Ultra 7 155H processor. The measured floating point computing capacity of Float16 is 283 points. It seems that this score is not very high, but we can compare it with a reference. In October, Intel released the desktop Core i7-14700K, and its Float32 score was 150. The 28W Core Ultra 7 155H processor has 283 points, nearly twice the lead!

Sharp core display enables light and thin books to play 3A masterpieces

In addition to the CPU, the GPU performance of the Core Ultra platform is actually more desirable.

The Ultra 7 155H processor integrates the new Intel Ruixuan core display. As can be seen from the various tests of 3DMark, the Ruixuan core display is scored 481 in the SPEED WAY mode, that is, DX12U test; Port Royal light pursuit performance score 1386; DX12's TimeSpy E graphics performance score is 157; DX11 The three FireStrike tests scored 1966, 3953 and 8664 respectively. Compared with the Ruiju Xe core display on the Core platform before, the overall performance of Ruixuan core display has doubled.

Now let's take a look at the performance of Ruixuan Core Display compared with other integrated graphics cards or entry-level graphics cards.

Referring to the graphics score of 3DMark FireStrike mode, the performance of Intel Sharp Core Display is indeed the strongest at present, reaching 8664 points, and the theoretical performance is about 7% ahead of Radeon 780M. Compared with the previous generation of 96EU, the sharp torch Xe core significantly increased by 61%. In the Time Spy DX12 performance test, the Ruixuan core display scored 3298 points, 97% higher than the Ruiju Xe core display, and 38.5% higher than the Radeon 780M performance.

With good graphics performance, a thin and light notebook like Lingyao 14 2024 is opened Intel Under XeSS performance mode, the average number of frames running Cyberpunk 2077 can reach 40.68fps, which is really unbelievable, because the light and thin books can also play 3A masterpieces!

In addition, thanks to the support of Intel OpenVINO, Ruixuan Core Display can enjoy OpenVINO accelerated optimization, so it can also speed up some AI applications. We used UL Procyon to test the AI performance of Ruixuan Core Display, and the floating point operation scores of Float16 and Float32 reached 365 and 351 respectively, which can be said to be very excellent.

With the support of NPU and Ruixuan Core Display, the Lingyao 14 2024 AI ultra thin and light notebook can bring higher efficiency in the AI application level. Compared with the processor performance, the author believes that these two improvements are the biggest focus of the first generation of Core Ultra platform.

Excellent productivity performance support

As a lightweight notebook, Lingyao 14 2024 is mainly oriented to productivity applications, and its overall efficiency will directly affect the use experience of office users. So let's take a look at its productivity performance? Here we mainly refer to the theoretical tests of CrossMark and PCMark10.

First of all, in the CrossMark productivity performance test, its comprehensive score was 1730 points, its productivity single score was 1662 points, its creativity score was 1901 points, and its responsiveness score was 1471 points. The overall performance was good, and there was no pressure to deal with daily office applications.

Under the PCMark 10 office mode test standard, its common basic functions, including Web browsing, video conferencing, and application startup, scored 10271 points, indicating that it had no problems in completing these basic office tasks; The productivity project test scores up to 9234 points, indicating that it has efficient spreadsheet and document performance; In terms of digital content creation, its score is 9179, indicating that it can efficiently complete the work of picture, video, graphic rendering, etc; The overall score is 6845, which is good, and is basically equivalent to the thin and light version of the previous generation standard pressure processor platform.

Localized AI applications are really launched

The reason why notebooks based on the Core Ultra platform are called AI PCs is that the Core Ultra platform itself has powerful and diversified AI computing capabilities, and its CPU, GPU, and NPU can support different types of AI computing. The VNNI instruction set in the CPU is specifically used for AI acceleration speech recognition And other aspects have faster performance; Not to mention GPU, its powerful floating point computing capability can compete with the most popular AIGC applications at present, such as Wensheng Graph and Graph Generation Graph; The NPU is a low-power AI computing platform, providing sufficient computing power while ensuring the endurance.

Therefore, the Lingyao 14 2024 AI ultrathin edition can also support a variety of AI applications, such as content generation, language translation, content summary, and question answering related to the big language model. The AI matting function that will be integrated in the new version of clipping can help content creators improve efficiency; In addition, Lingyao 14 2024 AI ultrathin could easily complete the smooth real-time motion capture task through Xuanmi AI with the camera to create a virtual image digital person.

In addition to the basic big language model applications, Intel has also launched the Stable Diffusion that supports OpenVINO acceleration. With the AI computing power of Lingyao 14 2024, we have carried out two applications: Wensheng Diagram and Tusheng Diagram. It can be seen that the Core Ultra platform can complete some complex tasks of cultural and graphic maps in less than 3 minutes, which also means that the Core Ultra platform is the best carrier of AI localization applications at present.

More excellent endurance performance

In fact, in addition to excellent AI computing power and good graphics performance, the Intel Core Ultra platform also has a significant improvement in the endurance of related products. Lingyao 14 2024 is equipped with 75Wh lithium battery as standard, which can be used in 50% brightness, 30% volume, system energy-saving mode and control Software The measured endurance of PCMark 10 office mode is 13 hours and 26 minutes under quiet mode, Wi Fi/Bluetooth fully open, and 60Hz refresh rate. There is no problem in meeting the office demand of not plugging in for a day.

In addition, we also tested its endurance by continuously playing 4K video of station B.

50% brightness, 30% volume, system energy saving mode, control software quiet mode, Wi Fi/Bluetooth fully open, 60Hz refresh rate, and the battery life exceeds 10 hours. As can be seen from the above figure, when playing 4K streaming video, the workload of memory, GPU and network card is very high, and it is a very good performance to be able to exceed 10 hours. You should know that the endurance of the previous generation Core i7-1360P in the same test is only more than 8 hours.

Evaluation summary

Intel Core Ultra platform brings significant benefits to ordinary users in two aspects:

One is the diversified and powerful local AI computing power brought by CPU, GPU and NPU, which has built a very good localization platform for ordinary users to access AI applications and use AI applications, which is more convenient and safe.

The second is the more excellent graphics performance brought by the Ruixuan Core Display, which enables light and thin notebooks such as Lingyao 14 2024 to run large 3A games such as Cyberpunk 2077, Wilderness Escort, etc. At the same time, it can also bring better《 League of Heroes 》, CS2, etc.

Therefore, the Core Ultra platform is undoubtedly a huge experience change for thin and light notebooks. It provides a wider range of application scenarios for thin and light notebooks to meet more complex user needs.

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