As per Intel's presentation, the Core Ultra 200HX processors can help elevate the gaming experience in multiple ways through the Neural Processing Unit.
Intel Showcases Up To 14.8% Performance Uplift With Core Ultra 200HX XPU Compared to Just Running AI Assistant on GPU
The time has come when AI is also going to help you in beating difficult levels or bosses. If you ever get tired of cracking the enemy's attack pattern, the AI Assistants are available to help you in the game. Even though this feature won't necessarily work in every game, Black Myth: Wukong allows you to leverage third-party AI tools and helps you with learning about the game in detail or about the game's characters or mechanics.
Since leveraging the power of AI Assistant is easier and better on specialized hardware, Intel boasts about its Core Ultra 200HX processors for the same. The company held an event recently in China, showcasing its Arrow Lake-HX mobile processors' capabilities in enhancing the gameplay as well as the performance through the use of the dedicated NPU chip.
Core Ultra 200HX features Neural Compute Engine tiles in the NPU that help with executing AI-specific tasks and, with the help of an AI Assistant, you will be able to beat the bosses in Black Myth. Furthermore, the NPU is claimed to work better on the NPU than on the GPU alone, increasing the performance noticeably.
If you take a look at Intel's slide below, when the AI Assistant is made to work on the graphics card, the performance isn't at its peak and delivers around 94 FPS since the AI Assistant consumes a lot of resources from the GPU without offering back much. On the other hand, when the complete package, including CPU+GPU+NPU takes control, the frame rate increases to 108, which is nearly 15% uplift. What's surprising is that it shows that without AI Assistance, the game delivers slower performance with 103 FPS although in reality, AI has little control over affecting performance.
It should be kept in mind that the NPU on Core Ultra 200HX delivers just up to 13 TOPS of performance and is significantly slower than Copilot+ PCs that can deliver over 40 TOPS of NPU performance. There are even stronger processors, like the Strix Point Ryzen AI 9 HX 370, which offers 50 NPU TOPS, which is three times higher than what Core Ultra 200HX could offer.
Still, the claim by Intel needs to be tested independently, but at least 'beating the boss' part looks impressive. The Core Ultra 200HX-based laptops are yet to hit the shelves, but we saw one of those launched by Razer yesterday, featuring the RTX 5090 GPU.
News Source: Weibo
