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Intel

Core Ultra 7 258V Specifications

BGA8 cores / 8 threads

Released September 24, 2024

Intel's Lunar Lake chip: four Performance cores and four Low Power Efficient cores make 8 total and 8 threads, with Hyper-Threading absent from this design. Boost reaches 4.8GHz from a 2.2GHz Performance-core base, inside a 12MB cache and a 17W base power that peaks at 37W maximum turbo. Arc 140V graphics and LPDDR5X-8533 memory soldered up to 32GB round out this thin-and-light part.

Tied 19th of 23 models in the Laptop CPU catalog on Boost clock — 4 models share this figure. Tied 20th of 23 models in the Laptop CPU catalog on L3 cache — 3 models share this figure.

Current best price

No tracked price — this page compares specifications alone.

Specifications

Cores
8
Threads
8
Socket
BGA
Boost clock
4.8 GHz
Base clock
2.2 GHz
Performance cores
4
Efficiency cores
4
L3 cache
12 MB
TDP
17 W
Integrated graphics
Yes
Max power
37 W
Architecture
Lunar Lake
Process node
TSMC N3B
Integrated GPU
Intel Arc 140V
Memory support
LPDDR5X-8533

What owners and reviewers say

Summarised from 1 source(s), reviewed September 14, 2026. A source is counted only where it names this model exactly. How we track prices

Commonly praised

  • Reviewers credit it with much better battery life than the previous generation of Intel mobile chips, in a thin and light chassis.
  • Its single-core performance is competitive with rival mobile chips and it meets the Copilot+ NPU threshold.
  • The Arc 140V integrated GPU is treated as a clear step up for light gaming compared with earlier Intel integrated graphics.

Commonly criticised

  • Its multi-core performance is the weakest among the comparison group, and it trails in sustained video transcoding.

Sources behind this summary

Guides for this category

How to choose a desktop CPUA chip's socket decides what it can go into; cores, cache and TDP decide what you actually get once it's installed.How many CPU cores you actually needWhy more cores is not more speed, how gaming and productivity ask for cores differently, and why a core count alone never ranks two chips.When a CPU price is actually goodWhy a chip's list price and discount percentage tell you little, what a processor's price does over its life, and how to read its tracked history.Laptop CPU vs desktop CPUA mobile chip with the same core count is not the same processor — what the power envelope changes, and why these parts carry no price.

Sources

Every spec above was pulled from one of these — a field a source didn't state was left off rather than estimated.