Performance Index

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615781 02/19/2026 Public
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Intel® Core™ Ultra Processors (Series 3)

Claim Processor Systems Measured Measurement Measurement Period
It completed the full end to end workload about 1.2x faster with 1.7x lower latency than prior generation processor Intel® Core™ Ultra processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra processor 358H 64GB Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 2: Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 185H 64GB Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 1: ingestion rate: 178 records/s

System 2: ingestion rate: 148 records/s

System 1: Latency: 0.75ms

System 2: Latency: 1.28ms

As of Feb 2026
Testing Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake) with OpenVINO™ shows substantial NPU acceleration across MVTec's deep learning models, with performance gains up to 12x for complex models like DeepOCR and up to 4.5x for Global Context Anomaly Detection compared to prior generation. Intel® Core™ Ultra processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra processor 358H 64GB Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS MVTec OpenVino AI2 Plugin (2025.03)

System 2: Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 155H 32GB Ubuntu 22.04 MVTec OpenVino AI2 Plugin

System 1: DeepOCR model: 38.94ms

System 2: DeepOCR model: 468.96ms

System 1: GC-AD model: 5.26ms

System 2: GC-AD model: 24.08ms

As of Feb 2026
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 1.9x higher performance on LLM compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H System 1: CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra X9 388H Host Name: ptl, Time: Mon Nov 17 03:50:58 AM MST 2025, System Name: Intel Corporation Panther Lake Client Platform, Baseboard: Intel Corporation PTL-UP LPS T3 RVP1, Chassis: Intel Corporation Laptop, CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra X9 38BH, Architecture: x86_​64, Microarchitecture: -, L3 Cache: 18 MiB, Cores per Socket: 16, Sockets: 1, Hyperthreading: Enabled, CPUs: 16, Intel Turbo Boost: Enabled, Base Frequency: 4.0 GHz, All-Core Maximum Frequency: 5.0 GHz, NUMA Nodes: 1, Prefetchers: 1, PINs: -, Accelerators Available [used]: DLB: 0 [0], DSA: 0 [0], IAA: 0 [0], QAT: 0 [0], vRAN Boost: 0 [0], Installed Memory: 16 GB (2×8 GB LPDDR5 8533 MT/s [7467 MT/s]), Hugepagesize: 2048 kB, Transparent Huge Pages: madvise, Automatic NUMA Balancing: Disabled, NIC: 4x, Disk: 1×3.67 Samsung SSD 990 EVO Plus 4TB, BIOS: PTLFWTI.800.3332.D52.2509404547, Microcode: 0xD0, OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Kernel: 6.17-next, TDP: 45W, Energy Performance Bias: Balanced Performance (6), Scaling Governor: powersave, Driver: intel_​pstate, C-States: POLL: Enabled, C1: ACPI Enabled, C2: ACPI Enabled, C3: ACPI Enabled, Efficiency Latency Control: Enabled, Vulnerabilities: L1g OK, Q Vulnerable.

System 2: Name: orin, CPU: 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 @ 2.2GHz, GPU: NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 2048 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and 64 Tensor cores @ 1.3GHz, Memory: 64GB 256-bit LPDDR5 @ 204.8 GB/s, Storage: 64GB eMMC 5.1, Accelerator: 2× NVDLA v2.0, PVA v2.0, Accelerator: APE, NVENC, NVDEC, NVJPG, NVJPG1, VIC, SE, OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Kernel: 5.15.148-tegra, Jetpack: 6.2.1, Deepstream: 7.0, CUDA: 12.6, TensorRT: v100300, Jetson clocks: Default, NVP modes: 0 - MAXN.

System 1: DeepSeek Ilama-8B first token latency measurement: 288

System 2: DeepSeek Ilama-8B first token latency measurement: 543

As of November 2025 Demo
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 1.7x higher image classification performance compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H Same as above System 1 MobileNet BS1 FPS measurement: 3596 System 2 MobileNet BS1 FPS measurement: 2114 As of November 2025 DEmo
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 2.3x better performance per watt per dollar on end to end video analytics workloads compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H Same as above System 1 measurement: 9.28E-04 System 2 measurement: 4E-04 As of November 2025 Demo
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 4.5x higher throughput on vision language action models compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 38H, Baseboard: CRB Board, CPU Model: Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 388H, Sockets: 1, Cores per Socket: 16, Hyperthreading: No, CPUs: 16, Intel Turbo Boost: Enabled, Uncore RAPL: N/A, Base Frequency: 4.0 GHz, All-core Maximum Frequency: 5.0 GHz, Maximum Frequency: N/A, NUMA Nodes: N/A, Prefetchers: N/A, PPINs: N/A, Accelerators: DLB 0, DSA 0, IAA 0, QAT 0, vRAN Boost 0, Installed Memory: 16 GB (8×2 GB LPDDR5 8533 MT/s [7467 MT/s]), Hugepagesize: 2048 kB, Transparent Huge Pages: madvise, Automatic NUMA Balancing: Disabled, Disk: 1×3.6T Samsung SSD 990 EVO Plus 4TB, BIOS: PTLFWTI.R00.3332.D52.2509404547, OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Kernel: 6.17-next, TDP: 65W, Power & Perf Policy: Balanced Performance, Frequency Governor: powersave, Frequency Driver: intel_​pstate, Max C-States: POLL: Enabled, C1_​ACPI: Enabled, C2_​ACPI: Enabled, C3_​ACPI: Enabled.

System 2: Name: Orin AGX 64GB, CPU: 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 @ 2.2GHz, GPU: NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 2048 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and 64 Tensor cores @ 1.3GHz, Memory: 64GB 256-bit LPDDR5 @ 204.8 GB/s, Storage: 64GB eMMC 5.1, Accelerator: 2× NVDLA v2.0, PVA v2.0, Accelerator: APE, NVENC, NVDEC, NVJPG, NVJPG1, OFA, VIC, SE, OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Kernel: 5.15.148-tegra, Jetpack: 6.2.1, CUDA: 12.6, Jetson clocks: Default, NVP modes: 0 - MAXN.

System 1: 3854.85 inference/sec

System 2: 854 inference/sec

As estimated by Action Chunking Transformer (ACT) Bimanual insertion model (using four cameras - 640x480 with FP32)

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H is nearly 1.1x lower latency vs NVDIA RTX 4060 Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H System 1: Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used in the testing) 64G DDR5 6400 MT/s Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 2: Intel Core i5-10210U NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM) 32G DDR4 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 1: 2040ms

System 2: 2234.11ms

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H is up to 2.65x more efficient vs RTX 4060 Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H Same as above System 1: 22.6W

System 2: 60W (GPU only)

As of November 2025
Up to 31% or $596 savings per system over 5 years (Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H vs NVDIA RTX 4060) Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 338H Same as above Assumptions:

Electricity: $0.15 per kWh. U.S. national average commercial electricity rate provided by US Energy Info Admin, which was approximately $0.1255/kWh in 2022, choosing $0.15/kWh as a conservative estimate that rounds upward to reflect potential regional variability and rate increases. Heavy use: 24×7 = 8,760 h/yr × 5 yrs Power draw: System 2 = 60 W; System 1 = 22.6 W

System 1: $999 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 5 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$799, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $1499 (estimate based on https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-01YR-00218?item=9SIACP1K370559)

Hardware savings: $1499 - $999 = $500

5-Year Energy Cost:

System 1: 0.0226 × 8760 × 0.15 × 5 = $148.40

System 2: 0.06 × 8760 ×0.15 × 5 = $394.2

Energy savings = $245.80

Total TCO:

System 1: $1,147.40

System 2: $1,893.20

Total savings = $745.80 or 39.4%

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is up to 1.43x lower latency vs NVDIA RTX 4060 Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used in the testing) 64G DDR5 6400 MT/s Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 2: Intel Core i5-10210U NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB VRAM) 32G DDR4 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 1: 1565ms

System 2: 2234.11ms

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is up to 2.7x more efficient vs NVDIA RTX 4060 Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 22.3W

System 2: 60W (GPU only)

As of November 2025
Up to 31% or $596 savings per system over 5 years (Intel Core Ultra X7 processor 358H vs NVDIA RTX 4060) Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above Assumptions:

Electricity: $0.15 per kWh. U.S. national average commercial electricity rate provided by US Energy Info Admin, which was approximately $0.1255/kWh in 2022, choosing $0.15/kWh as a conservative estimate that rounds upward to reflect potential regional variability and rate increases.

Heavy use: 24×7 = 8,760 h/yr × 5 yrs

Power draw: System 2 = 60 W; System 1 = 22.3 W

System 1: $1150 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 7 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$999, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $1499 (estimate based on https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-01YR-00218?item=9SIACP1K370559)

Hardware savings: $1499 - $1150 = $349

5-Year Energy Cost:

System 1: 0.0223 × 8760 × 0.15 × 5 = $146.70

System 2: 0.06 × 8760 × 0.15 × 5 = $394.2

Energy savings = $247.50

Total TCO:

System 1: $1296.70

System 2: $1,893.20

Total savings = $596.50 or 31.5%

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is 3.7x faster in text to speech (TTS) vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU and NPU 64GB Ubuntu 24.04

System 2: Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Ampere GPU 32GB Ubuntu 22.04

System 1: 7.18 RTF (on CPU)

System 2: 1.94 RTF

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is 3.93x faster in Gemma 12B performance vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 11.92 token/sec (on GPU)

System 2: 3.03 token/sec

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is 3.7x faster in Yolo11x-seg performance vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 10.51 FPS (on NPU)

System 2: 1.95 FPS

As of November 2025
In our evaluation against NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H delivered 3.7× faster TTS, 3.9× higher LLM throughput, and 5.4× faster multi-task vision at just 25W Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 25W

System 2: 17W

As of November 2025
Up to 26% or $449 savings per system (Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB) Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: $1150 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 7 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$999, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $1599 (estimate based on https://www.seeedstudio.com/AGX-Orin-32GB-H01-Kit-p-5569.html) Hardware savings: $1,599 - $1,150 = $449 or 26%

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is 1.55x faster in text to speech (TTS) vs NVDIA Jetson Thor Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: NVIDIA Jetson Thor (T5000) Blackwell GPU 128GB Ubuntu 24.04

System 2: Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Ampere GPU 32GB Ubuntu 22.04

System 1: 7.18 RTF (on CPU)

System 2: 4.62 RTF

As of November 2025
In our evaluation alongside NVIDIA Jetson Thor, the Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H delivered 1.55× faster TTS and nearly 4× faster multi-task vision at just 25W, with LLM performance in a similar range Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 11.92 token/sec (on GPU)

System 2: 12.77 token/sec

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is nearly 4x faster in Yolo11x-seg performance vs NVDIA Jetson Thor Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 10.51 FPS (on NPU)

System 2: 2.72 FPS

As of November 2025
Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H is 2.2x more efficient vs NVDIA Jetson Thor Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 25W

System 2: 55W

As of November 2025
Up to 67% or $2,447 savings per system over 5 years (Intel Core Ultra X7 processor 358H vs NVDIA Jetson Thor) Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above Assumptions:

Electricity: $0.15 per kWh. U.S. national average commercial electricity rate provided by US Energy Info Admin, which was approximately $0.1255/kWh in 2022, choosing $0.15/kWh as a conservative estimate that rounds upward to reflect potential regional variability and rate increases.

Use: 12 h/day

Power draw: System 2 = 55 W; System 1 = 25 W

System 1: $1150 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 7 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$999, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $3499 (estimate based on https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIA-Jetson-AGX-Thor-Developer-Kit-p-9965.html)

Hardware savings: $3499 - $1150 = $2349

5 Year Energy Cost:

System 1: 0.025 kW × 21,900 h = 547.5 kWh × 0.15 = $82.125

System 2: 0.055 kW × 21,900 h = 1,204.5 kWh x 0.15= $180.675

Total TCO:

System 1: $1,150 + $82.13 = $1,232.13

System 2: $3,499 + $180.68 = $3,679.68

Total savings = $3,679.68−$1,232.13 = $2,447.55 or 66.5%

As of November 2025
By distributing computation across the CPU, NPU, and integrated Arc GPU, PTL completes the same analysis in roughly 31 seconds, up to 2.5× faster overall. Individual stages see even stronger gains-localization runs up to 152× faster on the NPU, heart segmentation up to 25× faster on the CPU, and calcium segmentation up to 26.8× faster on the integrated Arc GPU. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H (PTL) Integrated Arc GPU NPU 64G

System 2: c2-standard-4 (4 vCPUs) Intel Cascade Lake (Google Cloud instance) No 16G GCP VM Debian 11 + Ubuntu24.04 Docker container

System 1: 2ms (on NPU)

System 2: 305ms

As of Dec 2025
Same as above Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 2.1ms (on CPU)

System 2: 53.5ms

As of Dec 2025
Same as above Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 5.2ms (on GPU)

System 2: 139.5ms

As of Dec 2025
Same as above Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: 31 sec

System 2: 77 sec

As of Dec 2025
Activeloop and Pinkbot achieved 9X faster throughput with Intel's Panther Lake. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used) 64G Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

System 2: Quad-core ARM® Cortex®-A57 MPCore processor 128-core NVIDIA Maxwell™ architecture GPU 4GB 64-bit LPDDR4 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

System 1: 3.58 images/sec

System 2: 0.4 images/sec

As of Dec 2025
4.9× faster on our lighter model (smolvla_​base), 8.3× faster on our mid-range model (pi0_​base), and 8.6× faster on our higher-load model (pi05_​base) than Jetson AGX Orin Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used) 64GB Ubuntu 24.04

System 2: Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Ampere GPU 64GB Ubuntu 22.04

lerobot/smolvla_​base Inference latency System 1: 244.66 ms System 2: 1202.46 ms

lerobot/pi0_​base Inference latency System 1: 1057.87 ms System 2: 8804.47 ms

lerobot/pi05_​base Inference latency System 1: 1283.32 ms System 2: 10977.88 ms

As of Dec 2025
Up to 42% or $849 savings per system (Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 358H vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB) Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above System 1: $1150 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 7 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$999, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $1999 (estimate based on https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIArJetson-AGX-Orintm-64GB-Developer-Kit-p-5641.html)

Hardware savings: $1,999 - $1,150 = $849 or 42%

As of November 2025
The Intel Panther Lake platform shows great promise in this regard, as we saw a 20% absolute performance gain for the built-in GPU running our neural networks vs. our current NVidia Orin AGX and even more importantly a boost in performance per watt exceeding 80%. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used) 64GB Ubuntu 24.04

System 2: Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin Ampere GPU 64GB Ubuntu 22.04

Cartken Panoptic Model Inference Throughput System 1: 393.2 System 2: 330 Improvement gain: 19.15%

Cartken Panoptic Model Power Efficiency System 1: 25.15 System 2: 38 Efficiency gain: 33.82%

Cartken Panoptic Model Inference/Watt System 1: 393.2 / 25.15 = 15.63 System 2: 330 / 38 = 8.68 Improvement gain: 80%

Cartken Segmentation Model Inference Throughput System 1: 474.2 System 2: 380 Improvement gain: 24.79%

Cartken Segmentation Model Power Efficiency System 1: 25.18 System 2: 38 Efficiency gain: 33.74%

Cartken Segmentation Model Inference/Watt System 1: 474.2 / 25.18 = 18.83 System 2: 380 / 38 = 10 Improvement gain: 88%

As of Dec 2025
Up to 42% or $904 savings per system (Intel Core Ultra X7 processor 358H vs NVDIA Jetson AGX Orin 64GB) Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H Same as above Assumptions:

Electricity: $0.15 per kWh. U.S. national average commercial electricity rate provided by US Energy Info Admin, which was approximately $0.1255/kWh in 2022, choosing $0.15/kWh as a conservative estimate that rounds upward to reflect potential regional variability and rate increases.

Operating hours: 16 h/day × 365 = 5,840 h/year. 16 hours/day operation, representative of two-shift industrial or campus robotic deployments.

Power draw: System 2 = 38W; System 1 = 25.15W

System 1: $1150 (estimate based on prior gen Intel Core Ultra 7 or ARL H-based Asus NUC 15 Pro [US$999, source: https://shop.asus.com/us/asus-nuc-15-pro-cnf.html plus 15% premium.)

System 2: $1999 (estimate based on https://www.seeedstudio.com/NVIDIArJetson-AGX-Orintm-64GB-Developer-Kit-p-5641.html)

Hardware savings: $1,999 - $1,150 = $849 or 42%

Annual Energy Cost: System 1: 25.15 W × 5,840 h ÷ 1000 = 147 kWh × 0.15 = $22 System 2: 38 W × 5,840 h ÷ 1000 = 222 kWh × 0.15= $33

5 year Energy Cost: System 1: $22 × 5 = $110 System 2: $33 × 5 = $165

Total TCO:

System 1: $1,150 + $110 = $1,260

System 2: $1,999 + $165 = $2,164

Total savings = $2,164−$1,260 = $904 or 42%

As of November 2025
The system delivers nearly 2x the energy efficiency per token and costs about half as much as before. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU 128GB DDR5 7200 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

System 2: Intel® Core™ i7-14700 Processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti 192 GB DDR5 5600 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

System 1: 2.14 Watt/Token/Sec

System 2: 4.22 Watt/Token/Sec

Efficiency gain = 1.97X

As of November 2025
The system delivers nearly 2x the energy efficiency per token and costs about half as much as before. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU 128GB DDR5 7200 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

System 2 (consist of 2 systems): Intel® Core™ i7-14700 Processor NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090Ti 192 GB DDR5 5600 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 Processor 255H Integrated Intel Arc 140T GPU 64GB DDR5 5600 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

System 1: $3150

System 2: $4700 + $1850 = 6550

TCO savings = $6550 - $3150 = $3400 / 51% lower

As of November 2025
Physical AI has to run at the edge, under real power and thermal constraints. In our benchmarks, Intel delivered nearly 2× faster time-to-first-token while operating at roughly 22 watts versus close to 90 watts on a discrete GPU, enabling responsive, stable Physical AI systems without the cost and complexity of a separate accelerator. Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 processor 358H System 1: Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used) 64GB Ubuntu 24.04

System 2: Intel 13600KF NVDIA RTX 5080 64GB DDR4 Windows 11 24H2

Mistral 7B TTFT (512 tokens): System 1: 156 ms System 2: 288 ms Improvement gain: 1.9X

Mistral 7B TTFT (128 tokens): System 1: 143 ms System 2: 290 ms Improvement gain: 2X

Power Efficiency System 1: 22W System 2: 86W Efficiency gain: 4X

As of Dec 2025
Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H is nearly 1.13x slower in AI model fine tuning vs NVDIA RTX 3090 Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H System 1: Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used in the testing) 16G LPDDR5 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 2: Intel® Core™ i9-12900K NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB (Dedicated) GDDR6X Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 1: 71.8s

System 2: 63.7s

As of November 2025
"for only 17% of the cost" 5.8X or $5,549 estimate savings if you move away from dual-systems to PTL Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H System 1: Intel Core Ultra X9 processor 388H Integrated Arc GPU NPU (not used in the testing) 16G LPDDR5 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 2: Intel® Core™ i9-12900K NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 24GB (Dedicated) GDDR6X Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS System 3: 12-core Arm® Cortex®-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 2048-core NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU with 64 Tensor Cores 64GB (Shared) LPDDR5 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

System 1: $1150

System 2: $4700

System 3: $1999 Delta = ($4700+$1999) - $1150 = $5549 $6699/$1150 = 5.82X $1150/$6699 x 100% = 17%

As of Dec 2025
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 1.9x higher performance on LLM compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H System 1: CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra X9 388H Host Name: ptl, Time: Mon Nov 17 03:50:58 AM MST 2025, System Name: Intel Corporation Panther Lake Client Platform, Baseboard: Intel Corporation PTL-UP LPS T3 RVP1, Chassis: Intel Corporation Laptop, CPU Model: Intel(R) Core(TM) Ultra X9 38BH, Architecture: x86_​64, Microarchitecture: -, L3 Cache: 18 MiB, Cores per Socket: 16, Sockets: 1, Hyperthreading: Enabled, CPUs: 16, Intel Turbo Boost: Enabled, Base Frequency: 4.0 GHz, All-Core Maximum Frequency: 5.0 GHz, NUMA Nodes: 1, Prefetchers: 1, PINs: -, Accelerators Available [used]: DLB: 0 [0], DSA: 0 [0], IAA: 0 [0], QAT: 0 [0], vRAN Boost: 0 [0], Installed Memory: 16 GB (2×8 GB LPDDR5 8533 MT/s [7467 MT/s]), Hugepagesize: 2048 kB, Transparent Huge Pages: madvise, Automatic NUMA Balancing: Disabled, NIC: 4x, Disk: 1×3.67 Samsung SSD 990 EVO Plus 4TB, BIOS: PTLFWTI.800.3332.D52.2509404547, Microcode: 0xD0, OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, Kernel: 6.17-next, TDP: 45W, Energy Performance Bias: Balanced Performance (6), Scaling Governor: powersave, Driver: intel_​pstate, C-States: POLL: Enabled, C1: ACPI Enabled, C2: ACPI Enabled, C3: ACPI Enabled, Efficiency Latency Control: Enabled, Vulnerabilities: L1g OK, Q Vulnerable.

System 2: Name: orin, CPU: 12-core Arm Cortex-A78AE v8.2 64-bit CPU 3MB L2 + 6MB L3 @ 2.2GHz, GPU: NVIDIA Ampere architecture with 2048 NVIDIA® CUDA® cores and 64 Tensor cores @ 1.3GHz, Memory: 64GB 256-bit LPDDR5 @ 204.8 GB/s, Storage: 64GB eMMC 5.1, Accelerator: 2× NVDLA v2.0, PVA v2.0, Accelerator: APE, NVENC, NVDEC, NVJPG, NVJPG1, VIC, SE, OS: Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS, Kernel: 5.15.148-tegra, Jetpack: 6.2.1, Deepstream: 7.0, CUDA: 12.6, TensorRT: v100300, Jetson clocks: Default, NVP modes: 0 - MAXN.

System 1: DeepSeek Ilama-8B first token latency measurement: 288

System 2: DeepSeek Ilama-8B first token latency measurement: 543

As of November 2025
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 1.7x higher image classification performance compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H Same as above System 1 MobileNet BS1 FPS measurement: 3596

System 2 MobileNet BS1 FPS measurement: 2114

As of November 2025
Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H delivers up to 2.3x better performance per watt per dollar on end to end video analytics workloads compared to NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX 64GB Intel® Core™ Ultra X9 processor 388H Same as above System 1 measurement: 9.28E-04

System 2 measurement: 4E-04

As of November 2025