An early review for the Meteor Lake-powered MSI Claw gaming handheld is out, and its performance is clearly behind the ROG Ally and its Phoenix-based Z1 Extreme (via VideoCardz). Meteor Lake is significantly less performant than Phoenix in a handheld form factor according to the reviewer. The comparison is especially unfavorable for Intel when using lower TDPs, where the Ally's Z1 Extreme could be up to twice as fast as the Core 7 Ultra 155H in the Claw.
While Intel was mostly focused on AI with the development of Meteor Lake, it does feature significantly more powerful graphics than prior Intel CPUs. Its Xe-LPG-based integrated graphics have a complete tile to itself and on paper are pretty powerful. Seemingly a big improvement over the aging Xe Iris graphics that first debuted with Tiger Lake in 2020. There was even some hope that Intel could catch up to AMD in iGPU performance, which is generally something that AMD always does well in.
