QuoteBut here, the article is about the X9 388H, not the less powerful variants that have a very weak iGPU. They used the ZenBook Duo UX8407 for tests with the X9 388H.All 3 (as of this posting) Arc B390 iGPUs are about equally fast (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_Lake_(microprocessor)#Panther_Lake). The Duo just makes getting a Arc B390 APU quite a bit more expensive. Also, the title is "Intel Panther Lake Core Ultra X9 388H performance analysis - Outpaces Arrow Lake and exceeds Zen 5 in efficiency" and nothing with Duo in it. Doesn't matter what they used, all B390 will be about equally fast. So, again, the cheapest B390 will be 1300 + taxes AFAIHaveSeen. The 32 GB soldered RAM, even if it's 9600 MT/s, is a downer tho, so I'm only interested if it's like no more than 700 bucks..maybe in 2-3-4 years it will be like that, used. The cheapest (used) RTX 4060 laptop (not 4050 laptop, so it's faster than the Arc B390), can be get for 700 bucks.. But an iGPU-only laptop may be lighter than a 4050 laptop.
QuotePanther Lake combines hybrid CPU cores [..]Not sure on what [Intel] node the predecessor CPU part is made on, but Panther Lake has not improved on the CPU front, if I saw it correctly, at least not in power efficiency, but it's fine, for me the iGPU performance matters much more and here Panther Lake delivered, but price is the elephant in the room.