Intel Core i5-1350P spotted on Geekbench with minimal performance uplift over the Core i5-1250P

Benchmarks of several high-end Intel Raptor Lake laptop processors, such as the Core i9-13900HX and flagship Core i9-13980HX showed up online in the past few weeks. On the other hand, only one 25W chip, the Core i7-1370P, has been spotted so far. Now, it is joined by its younger, less powerful sibling, the Intel Core i5-1350P, which finds itself in an unannounced Acer Travelmate laptop.

The Raptor Lake processor scores 1,686 and 8,980 points in Geekbench's single and multi-core tests, respectively. Our benchmark database reveals its predecessor, the Intel Core i5-1250P, bagged 1,583 and 8,778 points in the same test. The performance uplift (6% for single-core and 2% for multi-core) is nothing to write home about. One can attribute that to both CPUs sporting near-identical specifications (12 cores, 26 threads). It does, however, up the base/boost clocks to 1.9/4.6 GHz.

The Intel Core i5-1350P sampled here is almost certainly a pre-production sample. That said, it is unlikely that stable drivers will bring forth that much of a performance uplift. It is, after all, a low-power chip earmarked for thin-and-light laptops. Rumour has it that Intel plans to use repurposed Alder Lake dies for all of its Raptor Lake laptop processors, and that could explain the somewhat unimpressive performance gain.

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