Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Launched in December 2023, the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H is a powerful processor from Intel's new Meteor Lake generation, which is suitable for both work and gaming.

Technical data and performance of the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H
The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H has six performance cores that support hyperthreading and eight efficiency cores. In the new tile/chiplet design, two additional efficiency cores with low energy consumption are also installed on the low-power island, which then take over in idle mode and at low load, thus helping to save power. The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H therefore has a total of 16 cores and 22 threads, as well as 24 MB of L3 cache, which can be used to quickly retrieve and process frequently used data. Intel specifies the power consumption at 28 watts, in low-power mode the CPU only requires 20 watts, but then only clocks at 700 MHz. In boost mode, the CPU clocks at up to 5 GHz with significantly higher energy consumption. In comparison: The Intel Core Ultra 7 155H clocks up to 4.8 GHz with the same number of cores and the same power consumption in boost mode, while the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H clocks up to 5.2 GHz.

Integrated graphics card and additional functions
The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H uses an Intel Arc iGPU with eight cores. The new iGPU is based on the Xe LPG architecture, an efficiency-focused adaptation of the architecture of dedicated Arc GPUs. Just as the design of the CPUs within the Meteor Lake H series is largely the same, the iGPUs are also very similar. An Intel Arc 8C GPU 2.3 GHz is integrated in the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H, which has eight ray tracing units in addition to the eight Xe cores and is manufactured using the 5nm process. According to Intel, the performance has improved significantly compared to the Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96 EUs. As a result, everyday tasks pose no problems for the new iGPU and even light video and image editing as well as gaming at low detail levels should not overtax it. Content can be displayed on up to four screens.

The Intel Core Ultra 7 165H supports WiFi 7 and Thunderbolt. The memory controller is the same as in other Intel Core Ultras and supports up to 96 GB DDR5-5600 or up to 64 GB LPDDR5x-7467 memory. In 2023, however, Intel not only presented processors from the Meteor Lake generation. In addition to this new generation of processors with AI support, chips from the Raptor Lake Refresh series without integrated AI were also launched on the market: Intel Core i7-14700HX and Intel Core i9-14900HX can be installed with up to 192 GB DDR-5600.

Conclusion
All in all, the Intel Core Ultra 7 165H is a powerful processor that can be used for gaming and creative work. It is a good choice for anyone looking for a powerful and energy-efficient CPU. Among other things, the AI is designed to help save energy, speed up processes and provide new functions such as real-time language translation.

Status: 06/2024