Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance
Those wanting to go through 126 benchmarks in full from this remote testing session with the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 can find all the data via this result page.
When taking the geometric mean of all the raw benchmark results, the Core Ultra 7 165U was performing at around 86% the speed of the Core Ultra 7 155H. In single-threaded workloads there were advantages to the Meteor Lake 165U thanks to the higher base and turbo frequencies, but for the multi-threaded workloads the 155H is a 16-core / 22-thread processor compared to 12-core / 14-thread with the 165U. Easily pulling ahead overall were the Framework 13 with Ryzen 7 7840U and then with a little extra "oomph" was the Framework 16 with Ryzen 7 7840HS.
Most surprising out of this though was the CPU package power consumption with the Core Ultra 7 165U consuming so much more power than the Core Ultra 7 155H as well as the AMD Ryzen 7 laptop processors. Something funky perhaps is going on with the Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 firmware or other factors or with Linux itself albeit with just the brief remote testing I am not able to dive deeper. All these power numbers are straight from the respective RAPL/PowerCap interfaces exposed under Linux.
The Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 was doing a good job though keeping the SoC core temperature down and on average lower than the other tested laptops/processors.
Thanks again to Phoronix reader Jonny for the remote access to the Core Ultra 7 165U and more data for those interested can be found here. Ultimately though the Core Ultra 7 155H will likely be of more interest to Phoronix readers given the higher core/thread count as well as much faster integrated Arc Graphics. Or if caring most about performance and power efficiency, the AMD Zen 4 laptop options remain very strong contenders.
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