Intel Core Ultra 5 125H and Ultra 7 155H spotted on Geekbench, Meteor Lake lineup rumored to include Ultra 9 185H and Ultra 7 165H

When the upcoming Meteor Lake Ultra CPU lineup was first announced some months ago, Intel also mentioned that the numbering scheme would be changed. Thus, instead of the usual first two digits that indicated the Core generation number plus two or three other digits that indicate the tier and some letters that represent the TDP class, Intel thought it would be better to just reset everything starting with 100 to which it would add a digit for tier and letters for TDP class. The “i” would also be dropped in favor of the Ultra brand. For example, instead of i7-14700H, we would get Ultra 7 1003H. But it looks like this was not really set in stone, as recent Geekbench entries show a different naming scheme.

Benchleaks spotted a new Ultra 7 processor entry in the Geekbench database. However, the 155H naming scheme is different from what Intel suggested previously. It is unclear if this is the official naming scheme moving forward. If it is indeed the case, Intel will most likely clear things up later this month when the Meteor Lake processors are supposed to be unveiled at the Innovation event.

Naming scheme confusion aside, the Geekbench results are quite impressive. This is a 16-core / 22-thread model with 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores and 2 additional low-power cores plus an Xe-LPG iGPU with 128 EUs and it was tested in an HP Spectre x360 convertible sporting 16 GB of RAM. It also boosts to 4.8 GHz and has 24 MB of L3 cache. Not exactly a high-end SKU, yet, as reported by Videocardz, it managed to score better than a desktop-grade Ryzen 7 5800X or Intel i5-13400 in single core tests, while the 12749 multi-core score puts it ahead of an i9-12900(non-K) or a Threadripper Pro 3955WX.

A Chinese source posting on the Bilibili forums claims that the Ultra lineup will include at least two more models. The Ultra 7 165H comes with the same 6+8+2 core configuration and would boost to 5 GHz, whereas the Ultra 9 185H still featuring the same number of cores would boost to 5.1 GHz. We would expect a clear difference between Ultra 7 and Ultra 9, so this information is probably not accurate. Moreover, the Geekbench database reveals an Ultra 5 125H entry with 4 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores and 2 low-power SoC cores boosting to 4.5 GH. This one is slightly slower than the Ultra 7 155, yet comparable with previous gen i7 and Ryzen 9 desktop processors.

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