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Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro features Intel Arc graphics
With all the news circulating since CES and Intel’s own report, we can expect a lot to happen in 2022 from the tech giant. The company promises to ship more than 4 million discrete GPUs this year, but we’d like to see at least the first missing Day 0 driver from the Elden Ring. Today, we take a look at some of Intel’s smaller innovations that appear to be powering the new Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pro lineup.
Intel has been promoting its new line of acclaimed 12th-generation chips for some time now, with the mighty H-series excelling in gaming laptops. The Intel-powered Evo line of laptops combine the company’s CPU work with GPU power to create some seriously great-looking lightweight devices. Until recently, Intel gave us a glimpse of its P- and U-series Alder Lake chips for mobile devices, which come in more than 20 different variants. These have reportedly been implemented in more than 250 device designs, and these Samsung Galaxy Book2 Pros are likely to be the first.
A press release for Samsung’s new line of thin Windows 11 laptops lists i7 and i5 12th Gen Intel Core processors for the Galaxy Book2 Pro and Galaxy Book2 Pro 360. It also states that it is using the latest 12th Gen Intel processors. While this doesn’t necessarily fully confirm that they will be new P or U-series Alder Lake mobile chips rather than H, it seems likely, especially given the size of these devices.
These will also work in tandem with the new Intel graphics. While lower-end devices look set to run Intel Iris Xe graphics, Intel Arc looks like it will be an option for at least one Galaxy Book2 Pro.
These devices are clearly not aimed at gaming. Most sales pitches talk about features like auto-framing and a two-way AI noise-cancelling speaker, so it’s clearly positioned as a sleek productivity device. However, some of those specs, including options for 32 GB DDR5 and up to 1 TB SSD, definitely made me curious about how well it would perform as a portable gaming device. With the recently launched Steam Deck, this could be the year of ultraportable PC gaming.