Intel looks like it’s finally ready to trade punches with AMD’s fastest mobile chips again. New benchmarks for the upcoming Core Ultra X9 388H – part of the “Panther Lake” family – just leaked, and the numbers are surprisingly strong.

Even though this was just an engineering sample, it’s already matching the single-core speed of AMD’s top-tier “Strix Halo” processors and showing a solid jump in multi-core power over Intel’s current lineup.

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A new Geekbench leak gives us a peek at what this chip can do, and on paper, it’s a beast. The X9 388H posted a single-core score of 3,057 and a multi-core score of 17,687.

To put that in perspective: the single-core speed is basically neck-and-neck with AMD’s Ryzen

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