Intel Core Ultra 7 256V Lunar Lake With ASUS Zenbook Performing Better After New Linux Patch

There are some Mesa driver optimizations perhaps still needed as in some games like the open-source Xonotic and Unvanquished first person shooters the Xe2 performance was still well behind the Meteor Lake graphics performance -- but at least a big improvement than before when running without the ASUS AIPT patch.

This ASUS AIPT patch to use the standard mode rather than whisper mode helped out the performance a lot for a better out-of-the-box Lunar Lake experience on Linux moving forward.

On average across various benchmarks the Core Ultra 7 256V was running with a 18.69 Watt average and 31.92 Watt peak when on the ASUS AIPT patched kernel compared to the prior results with a 12.42 Watt average and 28 Watt peak. This puts the Core Ultra 7 256V power use on Linux higher than the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 for these graphics workloads but still much lower than the Core Ultra 7 155H Meteor Lake. For those preferring Lunar Lake with lower power use while using an AIPT-patched kernel, switching to the "quiet" power profile will in turn revert the ASUS Zenbook back to the AIPT whisper mode.

Stay tuned for more Linux benchmarks of Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" from the patched kernel build in the coming days with more CPU/system benchmarks re-tested to see the difference.