Actual benchmarks and useful info here https://youtu.be/WH-qtuVRS2c
Cinebench R23: 13218
Cinebench 2024: 701
Geekbench 6.2: 12319
Fire Strike GPU: 9317
Time Spy: 3283
Geekbench 6.2 Compute: 30101
Battery life (summary): In their various tests (not many apparent details on exactly how it was done) very comparable with the M2 air/7840U devices.
Gaming FPS (1080P Medium, iGPU): Generally better than the 780M
Overwatch 2: 82 FPS
Apex Legends: 73 FPS
Diablo 4: 50 FPS
Starfield: 31 FPS
Counter-Strike 2: 67 FPS
Valorant: 137 FPS
I wish there are Single Core Benchmarks.
I dont see that. Cinebench still shows Apple is just about the same ahead of its competition.
On the whole... this sounds big. If these numbers check out in further testing then all of a sudden Intel's back on top of the laptop game.