Intel Core Ultra 5 236V Lunar Lake CPU makes underwhelming Geekbench debut

A new Intel Lunar Lake CPU has shown up on Geekbench. It is the Core Ultra 5 236V, which, according to an earlier leak, comes after the Core Ultra 5 238V. The '6' in its name confirms 16 GB of LPDDR5X RAM. Like every other Lunar Lake SKU, it comes with an 8 core (4 P + 4 E), 8-thread CPU. 

The Core Ultra 5 236V's performance in Geekbench is a tad underwhelming. It scores 2,021 in the single-core test and 5,743 on multicore. Its frequency chart shows a steady 4.7 GHz boost with no throttling, so we can rule that out. In contrast, the Core Ultra 7 256V scores 2,713 and 10,036 in the same benchmark with a boost clock of 4.8 GHz. 

Then again, this is just one Geekbench run, and we could see the Core Ultra 5 236V fare much better in subsequent tests. Primarily, the differences will be apparent only in GPU-bound tests, as the Core Ultra 5 SKUs all get a nerfed Arc 130V instead of the Arc 140V on Core Ultra 9 and Ultra 7 models.