Tuesday, December 16th 2025

Core Ultra 7 365 Test Sample Gets Geekbenched, Scores Indicate Generational Regression

As of this morning, a mysterious "Lenovo 4810X90100" test platform has produced slightly concerning benchmark scores. The freshly-archived database entry shows a next-gen laptop/notebook being driven by an unreleased Intel Core Ultra 7 365 "Panther Lake-H" mobile processor. Overall Geekbench 6.3 scores—2451 (single-core) and 9714 (multicore)—were swiftly noted down by keen trackers of emerging PC hardware. According to Geekbench browser data, Team Blue's upcoming mid-range SKU is an 8-core design, with two contained clusters consisting of four units (each). This leak seems to align with official Intel preview material that describes a generic product's 4 Performance-core + 4 Low Power-Efficiency-core configuration.

The leaked "Panther Lake-H" part's Geekbench tallies were compared to scores generated by similarly positioned predecessors: Core Ultra 7 268V and Core Ultra 7 258V. Surprisingly, the older "Lunar Lake-H" mobile CPUs—on average—outperform the younger sibling. When weighing up the differences between Core Ultra 7 268V and Core Ultra 7 365 SKUs, Wccftech acknowledged clock speed disparities and contrasting TDP ranges. Unfortunately, the leaked "Panther Lake-H" candidate trails behind in terms single-core and multicore of scores—6% and 7%, respectively. Notebookcheck reckoned that the evaluated Core Ultra 7 365 APU offers underwhelming "12th-gen-like performance." When cross-referenced against the Core Ultra 7 258V, Intel's newer chip lagged behind in both single-core (11%) and multicore scenarios (10%). It is plausible that the "Lenovo 4810X90100" prototype—sporting 64 GB of non-specific system memory—was set up with pre-release drivers, therefore putting its hosted Core Ultra 7 365 processor in a disadvantaged position.
Sources: Geekbench Browser, Wccftech, VideoCardz, Notebookcheck, Lenovo ThinkPad X9-14 Gen 1 (Core Ultra 7 258V)
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8 Comments on Core Ultra 7 365 Test Sample Gets Geekbenched, Scores Indicate Generational Regression

#1
Squared
It's notable that the 258V did better than the 268V in these tests. Sometimes the laptop affects performance more than the CPU model.
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#2
TumbleGeorge
This results seems like lower than smartphone system on the chipz that have 8-10 watts power consumption.
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#3
dgianstefani
TPU Proofreader
It's a prerelease bench. Plus laptop scores are dictated by cooling and TDP.
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#4
Darmok N Jalad
The test mule had 64GB of RAM. I don’t think that’s a budget design, especially in this market.
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#5
Cheeseball
Not a Potato
If the specs in that screenshot are correct, then thats why the 258V outperforms the 365. The 365 only seems to turbo up to 4.6/4.7 GHz. 258V turbos up to 4.8 GHz single core.

Also we don't know what the PL1 and PL2 is for the 365 in the test machine is.
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#6
DarkDreams
Am I the only one who thought for a second that the Ultra 7 365 was a subscription based processor :oops:
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#7
watzupken
Panther Lake should be revealed soon, so it’s matter of time before we know if it’s truly inferior to the outgoing Lunar Lake. I do think Intel’s fab and chip design tends to favor performance over power efficiency. So in a thin laptop, the lack of adequate cooling will throttle the chip quickly. This may be why it underperforms Lunar Lake on a more efficient node and hard cap of 30 to 37W.
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#8
mrnagant
Intel seems to be going for efficiency. The E cores are swapped out for LP-E cores. Clocks pulled back a little. Plus it will also depend on what Lenovo is doing, or potential lack thereof.
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