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Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
The fastest Lunar Lake raises the power floor to 30W and squeezes out a little more clock everywhere. It is peak efficiency-first Intel: superb single-core and battery life, still eight threads when the render queue fills.
Pros
- Best single-core of the Lunar Lake stack
- Arc 140V at 2.05GHz leads thin-and-light gaming
- 48 TOPS NPU clears Copilot+ certification
- Excellent battery life for a Core Ultra 9
- On-package memory saves board space
Cons
- Eight threads limit heavy multi-core work
- 32GB memory ceiling, not upgradeable
- 30W floor blunts the efficiency pitch
- Small real-world gain over the cheaper 258V
Average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V
General
- Announced
- 2024
- Process
- 3 nm
- Base TDP
- 30 W
- Max TDP
- 37 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 8
- Performance cores
- 4
- Efficiency cores
- 4
- Threads
- 8
- Base clock
- 3.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 5.1 GHz
- L3 cache
- 12 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- Intel Arc 140V
- iGPU clock
- 2,050 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- LPDDR5X-8533 (on-package)
- Max memory
- 32 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 2,870Top 26%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 11,500Top 50%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,870Top 32%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 10,900Bottom 46%
- PassMark
- 19,780Bottom 50%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 3,883Top 4%
Quick answers
Is the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V good in 2026?
The Intel Core Ultra 9 288V earns an Inno Score of 56.6/100 (“Average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The fastest Lunar Lake raises the power floor to 30W and squeezes out a little more clock everywhere. It is peak efficiency-first Intel: superb single-core and battery life, still eight threads when the render queue fills.
Does the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 19,780 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V?
Cores: 8 · Threads: 8 · Boost clock: 5.1 GHz · Base TDP: 30 W
What are the closest alternatives to the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are AMD Ryzen 7 250, Apple M2 Pro (12-core), Intel Core Ultra 9 185H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
