Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 15IWC11 review: Intel Wildcat Lake Core 7 350 performance debut

[Redaktion]

At a time when anything new can often cost more than two grand, the upcoming Wildcat CPU instead targets budget-oriented laptops designed for students or home multimedia playback. Performance results are nothing too exciting for better or worse.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-IdeaPad-Slim-3-15IWC11-review-Intel-Wildcat-Lake-Core-7-350-performance-debut.1328444.0.html

[dumb_oems]

Low performance, but still cannot do anything without a noisy fan.

Look at A18 Pro. Comparable performance, better single thread, much more efficient, totally fanless.

Intel CPUs are just bad.

[RoQeNooB]

Really interesting results mixed in there, it almost looks as if the drivers are half baked with some of the performance numbers
That is, however, a Lenovo and/or Intel problem to solve before customers get their hands on these

In Europe we're getting the same model but somehow it weighs an extra 700 grams, so I wonder if it'll be better for sustained loads

Great work as per usual! Thanks for including the gaming testing.

[true - haha]

Intel CPUs are just bad.

And this may not be just Intel's node issue: Hardware Unboxed tested such a CPU that is made on a TSMC node, where everything else was being equal and they concluded that Intel's bad energy efficiency might not only be a Intel's node issue, but rather an architectural issue.

Their Panther Lake iGPU improved a lot, but it's made by TSMC.

Maybe it's time for Intel to move their CPU to TSMC as well. Intel can still put their backdoors on a chiplet made by them XD