Intel Wildcat Lake is surprisingly expensive, yet slower than MacBook Neo
Intel Wildcat Lake was announced in mid-April and the chips are soon to be available in affordable laptops. No laptops with Wildcat Lake are available yet, and no manufacturer has confirmed a price for Wildcat Lake. Intel Ark has now revealed how much the chips will cost.
According to this, an Intel Core 5 320 costs $340, while Intel charges $426 for a Core 7 360. These prices apply to a purchase of 1,000 units; discounts are likely when purchasing higher quantities. The chips are therefore surprisingly expensive, as Intel's performance-oriented laptop processors were still offered at comparable prices a few years ago. Intel does not quote prices for faster "Panther Lake" chips.
Both the Core 5 320 and the Core 7 360 offer two performance cores, four low-power cores and a Xe3 iGPU with two cores. As our hands-on with one of Intel's reference laptops has shown, Wildcat Lake can be used with a power dissipation of up to 11 watts without a fan; with a fan, a TDP of up to 22 watts is possible.
The first notebooks with Intel Core 5 320 have already been benchmarked at Geekbench. With a single-thread score of 2,564 points and a multi-core result of 8,122 points, the chip is almost twice as fast as AMD's cheaper Ryzen 5 7520U, but also 11.1 percent slower than the Apple MacBook Neo ($589 on Amazon). The Intel Core Ultra 5 325 is 36 percent more powerful.
| Geekbench 6 (single-thread) | Geekbench 6 (multi-thread) | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core 5 320 | 2.564 | 8.122 |
| Apple A18 Pro | 3.589 | 9.140 |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7520U | 1.374 | 4.434 |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 325 | 2.592 | 11.060 |
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