Exploring Intel’s Core Ultra 9 285H In The Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5i

Intel launched its high-performance Arrow Lake-H and HX series mobile processors, officially known as the Core Ultra 200H and 200HX, at CES 2025 and showed off an array of partner systems based on the chips as well. For those unfamiliar, Arrow Lake-H is very different than the lower-power Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra 200S series for notebooks that launched a few months back. Arrow Lake-H is a higher-power mobile platform, that uses the same “Lion Cove” P-cores and “Skymont” E-cores as Arrow Lake-based desktop processors, but tuned for lower-power mobile applications. Arrow Lake-H also features an NPU and a relatively powerful integrated Xe-LPG+ GPU, but the NPU isn’t quite as powerful as what’s utilized in Lunar Lake. In fact Arrow Lake-H’s NPU is akin to the one Intel employed on the previous-gen Meteor Lake and desktop Arrow Lake processors. Don’t let that lead you to believe that Arrow Lake-H isn’t well suited for AI workloads, though…