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Title: Expanding Intel Panther Lake to a lower price bracket: Lenovo releases new ThinkBook 14 & 16 G9 IPL
Post by: Redaktion on February 13, 2026, 11:01:58
The hype about the new Panther Lake CPUs has been mostly about the more expensive variants. Lenovo has now started to turn their attention towards the lower priced models, expanding the price range of Panther Lake with more affordable models like the Lenovo ThinkBook 14 G9 IPL and ThinkBook 16 G9 IPL.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Expanding-Intel-Panther-Lake-to-a-lower-price-bracket-Lenovo-releases-new-ThinkBook-14-16-G9-IPL.1225897.0.html
Title: Re: Expanding Intel Panther Lake to a lower price bracket: Lenovo releases new ThinkBook 14 & 16 G9
Post by: unfortunately no B390 on February 13, 2026, 11:53:17
QuoteIntel Core Ultra 5 325 to the Core Ultra 7 355.
Panther Lake' CPU cores didn't improve much or at all vs its predecessor and the only interesting thing about Panther Lake is its Arc B390 iGPU (12 Xe-cores), but unfortunately even the mentioned Ultra 7 355 only has 4 Xe-cores.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)
Title: Re: Expanding Intel Panther Lake to a lower price bracket: Lenovo releases new ThinkBook 14 & 16 G9
Post by: Hegarmin on February 13, 2026, 13:41:54
Quote from: unfortunately no B390 on Today at 11:53:17
QuoteIntel Core Ultra 5 325 to the Core Ultra 7 355.
Panther Lake' CPU cores didn't improve much or at all vs its predecessor and the only interesting thing about Panther Lake is its Arc B390 iGPU (12 Xe-cores), but unfortunately even the mentioned Ultra 7 355 only has 4 Xe-cores.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)

The point of the CPU part in general is the Arrow Lake performance combined with Lunar Lake efficiency. there might not be an increase in raw performance, but who cares? Arrow Lake is already very strong. strong enough for any consumer, that's for sure. combine that with efficiency and you have a winning chip.
Title: Re: Expanding Intel Panther Lake to a lower price bracket: Lenovo releases new ThinkBook 14 & 16 G9
Post by: unfortunately no B390 on February 13, 2026, 14:48:33
Quote from: Hegarmin on Today at 13:41:54
Quote from: unfortunately no B390 on Today at 11:53:17
QuoteIntel Core Ultra 5 325 to the Core Ultra 7 355.
Panther Lake' CPU cores didn't improve much or at all vs its predecessor and the only interesting thing about Panther Lake is its Arc B390 iGPU (12 Xe-cores), but unfortunately even the mentioned Ultra 7 355 only has 4 Xe-cores.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)

The point of the CPU part in general is the Arrow Lake performance combined with Lunar Lake efficiency. there might not be an increase in raw performance, but who cares? Arrow Lake is already very strong. strong enough for any consumer, that's for sure. combine that with efficiency and you have a winning chip.
No obvious CPU power efficiency improvement over the predecessor (the B390 iGPU is a good enough upgrade for me, so I consider Panther Lake a success if the Arc B390 is the iGPU) (counting power limited power efficiency improvements is not fair if the predecessor wasn't power limited):
notebookcheck.net/Intel-Panther-Lake-Core-Ultra-X9-388H-performance-analysis-Outpaces-Arrow-Lake-and-exceeds-Zen-5-in-efficiency.1212583.0.html
Title: Re: Expanding Intel Panther Lake to a lower price bracket: Lenovo releases new ThinkBook 14 & 16 G9
Post by: Benjamin Herzig on February 13, 2026, 15:27:03
The predecessors of these machines were usually equipped with Arrow Lake U aka Meteor Lake Refresh - Panther Lake is a huge upgrade over those, whether it has the B390 or not.
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