Intel's upcoming Panther Lake chips just showed up in PassMark benchmarks, revealing four different Core Ultra Series 3 processors. The leaked CPUs are the Core Ultra 7 366H, Ultra X7 358H, Ultra 7 365, and Ultra 5 332, and they're pulling some surprisingly strong single-thread numbers against AMD's current lineup.
The top-tier 366H managed to match the older Core Ultra 9 285H despite running at lower clock speeds, while the X7 358H beat out the 255H even though it has fewer P-cores. The eight-core 365 managed to edge past both the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme and Lunar Lake's Ultra 5 226V in testing.
A Panther Lake handheld also leaked on Geekbench, running the Core Ultra 5 338H, showing worse single-core performance than AMD's Strix Point but better multi-threading. These are early engineering samples, though, so final performance will probably be different when Intel officially launches these at CES 2026.
The top-tier 366H managed to match the older Core Ultra 9 285H despite running at lower clock speeds, while the X7 358H beat out the 255H even though it has fewer P-cores. The eight-core 365 managed to edge past both the Ryzen AI Z2 Extreme and Lunar Lake's Ultra 5 226V in testing.
A Panther Lake handheld also leaked on Geekbench, running the Core Ultra 5 338H, showing worse single-core performance than AMD's Strix Point but better multi-threading. These are early engineering samples, though, so final performance will probably be different when Intel officially launches these at CES 2026.
