We've tested some of the first laptops packing new Intel Lunar Lake chips, and the results are intriguing. Intel's latest laptop CPUs are better than ever, but still can't beat the competition in every regard.

Intel's Lunar Lake processor excels in terms of battery life and 3D performance, based on our tests. But does it perform better than Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips?

The laptop PCMag received for testing is the Asus Zenbook S 14, which sports the Intel Core Ultra 258V, which is an upper-midrange version of the CPU. All Lunar Lake CPUs sport a 4+4 core configuration with four P-cores and four E-cores,