Intel Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" Linux Performance In Mid-2025 vs. Launch Day

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 15 May 2025 at 02:30 PM EDT. Page 7 of 7. 10 Comments.
Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake Linux Performance May 2025. April 2025 was the fastest.

On average the Intel Lunar Lake performance with this testing was up by 20% compared to the performance on the same ASUS Zenbook laptop from last September. That's even more significant than the 6% geo mean improvement for the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake desktop processor since its launch.

Geometric Mean Of All Test Results benchmark with settings of Result Composite, Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake On Linux 2025 Redux. April 2025 was the fastest.

When looking at the Lunar Lake Xe2 graphics performance from launch day to now, it's up by 32%! A huge usability improvement for Lunar Lake graphics on Linux and making more games playable on Linux with the Lunar Lake integrated graphics and improving the overall user experience.

For those wondering how this puts the Intel Lunar Lake performance relative to other Intel and AMD laptops on Linux, the recent 21-way Linux laptop performance comparison on Ubuntu 25.04 features both the ASUS Zenbook S14 and Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura. All of those laptop benchmarks were done atop the fresh Ubuntu 25.04 with Linux 6.14.

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