Intel Core Ultra 7 165U "Meteor Lake" Linux Performance

To no surprise given the core/thread count differences, the Core Ultra 7 165U was slower for code compilation than the 155H and the AMD Zen 4 laptops.

While the Core Ultra 7 165U aims to be more power efficient than the Core Ultra 7 155H, when looking at the CPU power consumption it was actually much higher than the Acer Swift 14... The Core Ultra 7 165U was not only the slowest at compiling the kernel but also by far consuming the most power.

The ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 was keeping the Meteor Lake SoC running the coolest of the tested laptops/processors.

In other code compilation workloads it was still the case of the Core Ultra 7 165U performing the worst of the four laptops/CPUs while also consuming the most CPU package power.

With the multi-threaded Stargate digital audio workstation (DAW) software, the Core Ultra 7 165U was yielding the slowest performance while also being the worst at power efficiency... Perhaps Lenovo's firmware is acting really funky with multi-threaded workloads? This is rather surprising to see.

With the single-threaded WireGuard Linux networking benchmark the Core Ultra 7 165U was the fastest now but while still consuming the most power of the tested hardware. The better single-threaded performance is expected given the slightly higher base and turbo frequencies.