Intel’s Alleged Flagship „Panther Lake-H“ Ultra 9 386H Chip Gets Geekbenched

An intriguing Intel Core Ultra 9 386H mobile processor has turned up on Geekbench Browser, as spotted by early morning risers. Today’s reports have focused on details produced by an „Acer Predator PHN16S-I51“ test subject; presumably a next-gen Helios gaming laptop. The plucky system—sporting 64 GB of memory—was put through the Geekbench 6.50 wringer, running a Windows 11 Pro 64-bit OS combined with a Balanced power plan. Fundamental frequencies and core counts were leaked at the start of this month: 4 P-Cores, 8 E-Cores, 4 LPE-Cores. Presently, this supposed 16-core engineering sample (ES) has racked up impressive single and multicore scores: 2849 and 15434 (respectively). According to Notebookcheck, this data places the Ultra 9 386H ES chip just above the performance range of Team Blue’s current-gen „Arrow Lake-H“ Core Ultra 9 285H APU.

Crucially, this forthcoming premium component surpasses AMD’s Ryzen AI Max+ 395 „Strix Halo“ SoC (by a small margin) in single-core performance stakes. Team Red’s mobile 16-core Zen 5 flagship remains top of the multicore table. Intel’s Core Ultra 300 family is pencilled in for an official launch at CES 2026, but a plethora of leaks have disclosed all manner of pre-launch material. Late last week, photos of an alleged Core Ultra 3 „Panther Lake-H“ qualification sample ended up online, alongside CPU-Z-generated diagnostics.