Samsung Galaxy Book6 Pro shines in early benchmarks thanks to Intel Panther Lake and 32 GB RAM

The Galaxy Book6 Pro has turned up on Geekbench ahead of an anticipated series-wide refresh. Currently, Samsung is expected to present Galaxy Book6 laptops next January during CES 2026 in Las Vegas. In the meantime, leaked battery information indicates that 14-inch and 16-inch variants of the Galaxy Book6 Pro will be available, as well as a return of an Ultra-branded Galaxy Book laptop.

Now, Geekbench clarifies that at least one Galaxy Book6 Pro variant will also ship with a Core Ultra 5 338H processor from Intel's Panther Lake family. Equipped with twelve cores split equally between performance, efficiency and low-power clusters, the Core Ultra 5 338H is said to be more efficient than Lunar Lake equivalents like the Core Ultra 5 238V. As a result, the Galaxy Book6 Pro should deliver superior battery life than Galaxy Book5 series models like the Galaxy Book5 Pro 360 (curr. $1,358 on Amazon).

Apparently, these architectural and manufacturing improvements will also boost performance, which is not Lunar Lake's strong suit outside of GPU-heavy tasks. To that end, the Core Ultra 5 338H easily outperforms even the Core Ultra 9 288V in the Geekbench AI 1.4.0 benchmark, in part aided by the 32 GB of RAM present too. Based on recent leaks, a CPU uplift should also be joined by GPU gains thanks to Intel's Xe3 iGPUs.