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Rate My PC: Intel Core Ultra 9 288V + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

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93%

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Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

23,219 Benchmark Score

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile

27,435 Benchmark Score

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90-100

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30-49

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The Intel Core Ultra 9 288V paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile is a laptop-class combination that sits in the upper-middle tier of the database, with a combined percentile of 75 across all recorded CPU+GPU pairings. The CPU contributes an eight-core, eight-thread Lunar Lake design built on TSMC's 3 nm process, while the GPU brings Ada Lovelace silicon with 4608 shading units and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. No measured FPS rows exist for this exact combination in the database — all frame-rate discussion below is therefore estimated from the benchmark scores, not from recorded in-game measurements.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming. With a PassMark G3D score of 19587 and a GPU percentile of 73, this pairing is well positioned for high-refresh play at 1080p and competent at 1440p. The RTX 4070 Mobile sits statistically alongside desktop-class rivals such as the Radeon RX 6700 XT (deltaPct of 0) and even the RTX 3090 (deltaPct of -0.5), which indicates estimated frame rates in the high-refresh range for esports titles and smooth ultra-settings play in most modern AAA games at mainstream resolutions. At 4K, expectations should be tempered by the 8 GB frame buffer and 256 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Streaming. The Ultra 9 288V's single-thread PassMark score of 4274 is strong, but the eight-core, eight-thread design without SMT means the multi-thread PassMark result of 19810 defines the ceiling for simultaneously encoding and gaming. Solo streaming at 1080p is feasible given the GPU's NVENC-class encode capability implied by its 144 tensor cores and Ada Lovelace architecture, but heavy multi-app streaming setups will press against the CPU's thread budget.

Video editing. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10178 places the CPU in a capable-but-not-flagship bracket, sufficient for timeline editing, color work, and moderate exports. GPU-assisted effects benefit from the Geekbench OpenCL score of 109197 and Vulkan score of 108367, which indicate solid compute throughput for accelerated preview and export pipelines.

3D rendering. GPU rendering is the stronger path here: the RTX 4070 Mobile's 36 RT cores and 15.62 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput handle ray-traced viewport work and denoising well. CPU rendering, anchored by the Cinebench R20 multi-core score of 7069, is serviceable for scene assembly and light final renders but is not the pairing's strength.

Software development. This is arguably the CPU's sweet spot. Compilation benefits from strong per-core performance — Cinebench R23 single-core at 1950 and Cinebench R15 single-core at 301.5 — while the 12 MB of shared L3 cache and dual-channel LPDDR5X with 136.5 GB/s of bandwidth keep memory-bound build steps responsive. The PassMark single-thread score of 4274 ranks alongside desktop i9-class rivals per the nearestRivals list.

Student and office work. For documents, browsing, video calls, and campus workloads, the pairing is overqualified. The 30 W TDP of the CPU is the headline figure: sustained battery-friendly operation under light load is a structural advantage of this platform, and the Arc 140V integrated graphics can handle display duties without waking the discrete GPU.

Benchmark Performance

The CPU posts a full spread of results: Cinebench R15 multi-core 1583 and single-core 301.5, Cinebench R20 multi-core 7069 and single-core 997, and Cinebench R23 multi-core 10178 and single-core 1950. PassMark results include 19810 multi-thread, 4274 single-thread, 44019 integer math, 59536 floating point math, 186521 data compression, 14141 data encryption, 22622 random string sorting, 1637 physics, 195 find-prime-numbers, and 15613 extended instructions.

The CPU's average benchmark score of 23219 places it in the 76th percentile of all CPUs. The nearest-rivals list is remarkably tight: the Intel Core i9-11900F at 23254 (deltaPct -0.2), the AMD EPYC 4124P at 23167 (deltaPct 0.2), the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H at 23277 (deltaPct -0.2), and Intel's own Core Ultra 7 266V at 23297 (deltaPct -0.3). In plain terms, the 288V trades blows within a fraction of a percent of a desktop Rocket Lake i9, an entry EPYC, and a Zen 3 mobile chip — a diverse set that underscores how Lunar Lake converts efficiency-focused silicon into competitive throughput.

On the GPU side, the PassMark G3D score of 19587 anchors an average of 27435 and a percentile of 73. Geekbench OpenCL returns 109197 and Vulkan 108367; PassMark GPU compute lands at 8399, DirectX 11 at 179, DirectX 9 at 223, DirectX 10 at 116, DirectX 12 at 85, and G2D at 763. The rivals are again tightly clustered: the RX 6700 XT at 27425 (0%), the RTX 3090 at 27565 (-0.5%), the RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell at 27135 (+1.1%), and the Radeon Pro Vega 20 at 27839 (-1.5%). Matching a prior-generation flagship desktop card like the RTX 3090 within half a percent is the single most telling GPU statistic in the pack.

The combined picture — CPU at the 76th percentile, GPU at the 73rd, and the pairing at the 75th — is an unusually balanced laptop configuration with no lopsided component.

FAQ

Q: Is the Intel Core Ultra 9 288V good for gaming?

A: Its PassMark single-thread score of 4274 and physics score of 1637 are strong for game logic and draw-call throughput. With eight cores and eight threads, it handles modern titles well; the practical limit will be the GPU at higher resolutions, not the CPU.

Q: How does the CPU compare to its rivals?

A: Its average score of 23219 is within 0.3% of the Core i9-11900F, EPYC 4124P, Ryzen 7 5800H, and Core Ultra 7 266V — effectively a dead heat across a desktop, workstation, mobile, and sibling-mobile chip.

Q: Is the RTX 4070 Mobile comparable to a desktop GPU?

A: Yes, per the database: it scores within 0.5% of the desktop RTX 3090 on average and exactly level with the desktop Radeon RX 6700 XT.

Q: Are there measured game FPS figures for this pairing?

A: No. The database contains no measured FPS rows for this CPU+GPU combination; any frame-rate figures discussed are estimates derived from the benchmark scores.

Q: Can this pairing handle ray tracing?

A: The GPU has 36 RT cores of the Ada Lovelace generation plus 144 tensor cores for DLSS-class upscaling and denoising, so ray-traced effects at 1080p and 1440p are realistic expectations, with the caveat of 8 GB of VRAM in heavier titles.

Q: Is the CPU overclockable?

A: No. The multiplier is locked, and the BGA 2833 socket means the chip is soldered with no upgrade path.

Q: How much power does the whole platform draw?

A: The CPU's TDP is 30 W and the GPU's TDP is 115 W — modest figures consistent with the laptop build class, implying reasonable thermal behavior in a well-designed chassis.

Balance and Bottleneck

The percentile spread is narrow: CPU 76, GPU 73, combined 75. That symmetry is the core finding. Neither component dramatically overshadows the other, which means the bottleneck shifts by workload and resolution rather than being baked into the hardware choice.

At 1080p, the CPU becomes the likelier constraint in CPU-bound engines: single-thread throughput of 4274 PassMark points is strong but not halo-class, and the physics score of 1637 will show its limits in large-scale simulations and dense crowd scenes. At 1440p and especially 4K, the GPU takes over as the limiter — the 128-bit bus, 256 GB/s of bandwidth, and 8 GB frame buffer are the operative ceilings, and the -0.5% delta to the RTX 3090 suggests performance that scales down from that desktop card as resolution and texture pressure rise.

For multi-core production work, the eight-thread CPU is the bottleneck by design. The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 10178 against a single-core score of 1950 shows a scaling factor of roughly five-fold across eight threads — efficient scaling for the core count, but the absolute thread count caps heavily parallelized exports and renders. Since no measured FPS rows exist for this pairing, resolution-specific scaling cannot be quantified here; the percentile-based estimate is a balanced profile at 1080p and 1440p with GPU limits emerging at 4K.

Who Should Build It

1080p and 1440p gamers are the primary audience. The GPU's statistical parity with the RX 6700 XT and proximity to the RTX 3090 support estimated high-refresh 1080p and smooth 1440p ultra-settings play, backed by 36 RT cores and 144 tensor cores for ray tracing and AI upscaling.

Content creators on the move benefit from the pairing's dual strengths: GPU compute (OpenCL 109197) for editing acceleration and a 30 W CPU for battery-efficient light work between sessions. Video editors and streaming creators will find the eight threads adequate for solo workflows.

Developers get a strong interactive machine: the 4274 single-thread score and 136.5 GB/s of memory bandwidth favor IDEs, containers, and incremental builds, while the PassMark data compression score of 186521 indicates brisk archive and repo operations.

Students and small-business workstation users get a do-everything laptop with headroom. The PassMark encryption score of 14141 supports full-disk encryption without noticeable drag, and the efficiency-focused Lunar Lake design suits all-day mobility in a way hotter mobile platforms cannot match.

It is not the build for 4K-max enthusiasts, extreme multi-GPU rendering farms, or users needing sustained 16-plus-thread throughput — the thread count and VRAM capacity rule those out.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The upgrade story here is constrained by the laptop build class. The CPU uses Intel BGA 2833 — a soldered ball-grid array with no socket removal or replacement. The multiplier is locked, so tuning is limited to whatever the chassis vendor exposes. The memory story is the same: LPDDR5X on a dual-channel bus with 136.5 GB/s of bandwidth is typically soldered on Lunar Lake platforms, so memory should be specified generously at purchase.

PCIe is asymmetric: the CPU exposes PCIe Gen 5 with 4 lanes (CPU only), while the GPU connects over PCIe 4.0 x8. The GPU is also an integrated-solution part (slotWidth IGP, no power connectors), consistent with a mobile design where the discrete GPU is soldered to the board. There is no suggestedPsu figure because there is no user-selectable PSU; the relevant numbers are the 30 W CPU TDP and 115 W GPU TDP, which together define the chassis's thermal envelope.

The sensible "next upgrade" is therefore a whole-platform move rather than a component swap: a newer-generation laptop pairing, per the GPU's listed successor generation (GeForce 50 Mobile), or a desktop build if the workload outgrows the thread and VRAM ceilings. Within this machine, the practical levers are external: fast storage on the Gen 5 CPU lanes, and display resolutions matched to the GPU's 73rd-percentile standing.

CPU Analysis

The Core Ultra 9 288V is a Lunar Lake part manufactured by TSMC on a 3 nm process — the most advanced node listed in this fact pack. It carries 8 cores and 8 threads, a 3.30 GHz base clock, and a 5.10 GHz boost clock. The cache hierarchy is unusual for its class: 192 KB of L1 per core, a generous 2.5 MB of L2 per core, and 12 MB of shared L3. The fat per-core L2 reflects Lunar Lake's efficiency-first design, keeping hot data close to the core to reduce trips to system memory.

The benchmark profile confirms the design intent. Single-core results — 301.5 in R15, 997 in R20, 1950 in R23, and 4274 in PassMark single-thread — are genuinely strong, landing the chip in the 76th percentile overall. Multi-core results (1583 in R15, 7069 in R20, 10178 in R23, 19810 in PassMark multi-thread) are competitive without SMT: the chip matches the Ryzen 7 5800H (a 45-W-class mobile predecessor) within 0.2%, which is a strong statement for a 30 W part.

What this means in practice: snappy, responsive, bursty workloads — development, office productivity, light creative work, game logic — play to the 288V's strengths. Sustained all-core throughput is where the eight-thread ceiling and 30 W envelope show. The extended instructions score of 15613 indicates healthy vector throughput, and the Arc 140V integrated graphics provide display output and light GPU duties without engaging the discrete card, which matters for battery life in a laptop chassis.

Build Overview

This is a laptop-class pairing, per the buildClass field, combining Intel's efficiency-flagship Core Ultra 9 288V with NVIDIA's upper-midrange RTX 4070 Mobile. The tier verdict comes straight from the percentiles: CPU 76th, GPU 73rd, combined 75th. That places the machine in the top quarter of the database's pairings — a premium mainstream configuration, not an extreme one.

The composition is coherent: both components sit within three percentile points of each other, both are active-production parts, and both represent recent generations (Lunar Lake CPU on 3 nm, Ada Lovelace GPU on 5 nm). The GPU's transistor density of 121.8M per mm² across a 188 mm² die with 22,900 million transistors, paired with a CPU from a newer node, gives the platform a modern efficiency baseline unusual even among laptops in this bracket.

Gaming Performance

To restate clearly: the database contains no measured FPS rows for this CPU+GPU combination, and dataIsMeasured is false. Everything in this section is estimated from benchmark scores, not recorded gameplay.

The estimation basis is solid. The GPU's PassMark G3D score of 19587 and average score of 27435 place it level with the desktop RX 6700 XT (0% delta) and within 0.5% of the desktop RTX 3090 — cards with extensive performance histories. By extension, estimated expectations are: high frame rates in esports and competitive titles at 1080p with high refresh headroom; smooth ultra-settings play in current AAA titles at 1080p and largely at 1440p; and more conservative expectations at 4K, where the 8 GB GDDR6 buffer and 256 GB/s bandwidth begin to bite, particularly with ray tracing enabled.

The DirectX-tier PassMark scores (DX9 223, DX10 116, DX11 179, DX12 85) show the expected generational pattern, with strong legacy-API results and a lower DX12 figure consistent with that test's heavy async-compute character. The near-identical Geekbench OpenCL (109197) and Vulkan (108367) results indicate well-balanced driver and API performance with no obvious weak path.

CPU-side, the 4274 single-thread and 1637 physics scores suggest that at 1080p the CPU will hold frame pacing in most titles, with CPU-bound dips plausible in simulation-heavy scenes. With 144 tensor cores present, AI-upscaling support is a given on this platform, which materially extends playable resolutions and settings — an important lever given the VRAM ceiling.

GPU Analysis

The RTX 4070 Mobile is an AD106 chip on TSMC's 5 nm process: 22,900 million transistors on a 188 mm² die, yielding 121.8M transistors per mm². The configuration includes 4608 shading units, 144 TMUs, 48 ROPs, 36 RT cores, and 144 tensor cores — a full modern Ada Lovelace feature set with DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4 support.

Clocks run from a 1395 MHz base to a 1695 MHz boost, with memory at 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective). The memory subsystem is 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus for 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth — the one spec that dates the card, as modern texture budgets increasingly strain 8 GB at high resolutions. Throughput figures are strong for the class: 15.62 TFLOPS FP32 (with 1:1 FP16), 81.36 GPixel/s pixel rate, and 244.1 GTexel/s texture rate.

For rendering work, the benchmark picture is clear. The average score of 27435 and 73rd percentile, with parity against the RX 6700 XT and the RTX 3090, mean this GPU handles GPU render engines, ray-traced viewports, and compute workloads at a level previously reserved for last-generation desktop flagships. The 36 RT cores accelerate ray intersection for path-traced previews; the 144 tensor cores accelerate denoisers, upscalers, and AI inference. The 8399 PassMark GPU compute score and 109197 OpenCL result define the ceiling for simulation and compute-parallel work — capable, though the VRAM buffer remains the constraint for large scenes. At 115 W TDP over PCIe 4.0 x8, it is an efficient implementation of the architecture, well matched to the laptop platform it occupies.

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