Intel Wildcat Lake chips cost a pretty penny, but tests show they can’t touch the MacBook Neo

Intel’s Wildcat Lake is the company’s attempt to go toe-to-toe with the Apple MacBook Neo. The chips are tiny, featuring two performance cores, four efficiency cores, and a mini integrated GPU, and they’re efficient enough to run completely without a fan. 

That’s a genuinely exciting proposition for a Widows user who wants a slim, quiet laptop, but doesn’t want to switch to a new operating system. But it’s not all moonlight and roses, as the new chipsets come with a big catch. 

How fast are these chips?

Let’s talk about performance first. According to Notebookcheck, benchmarks for the Core 5 320 have already appeared on Geekbench, and the results are decent but not mind-blowing.

Geekbench 6 (single-core)Geekbench 6 (multi-core)Performance differeneceIntel Core 5 3202,5648,122Apple A18 Pro3,5899,140+40% (single) / +13% (multi)AMD Ryzen 5 7520U1,3744,434−46% (single) / −45% (multi)

It scores 2,564 in single-thread and 8,122 in multi-core performance. That makes it almost twice

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