Huawei’s MateBook X Pro lineup is back again with a model for 2024, but it breaks the naming mold – it’s not the MateBook X Pro 2024, strictly speaking, it’s the MateBook X Pro Core Ultra Premium Edition. But if you don’t mind, we’ll refer to it by its logical name – the MateBook X Pro 2024.

The name Huawei insists on, signifies that it comes with Intel Core Ultra chipset – the only two processor options on this machine are the Intel Core Ultra 9 185H and the Core Ultra 7 155H. There are no other chip options – nothing from AMD, and indeed no new ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite or X Plus.

The new MateBook X Pro stays true to the series’s roots – it’s thin, light, and beautifully crafted. And it’s also a leap forward in terms of processing power, cooling, and display technology.

The Core Ultra 9 185H is equipped with the fast version of the new Intel Arc Graphics which has 8 Xe cores at a maximum of 2.35 GHz at its disposal. Intel has been able to improve its performance considerably compared to the old Iris Xe Graphics G7, which is why the new MateBook X Pro 2024 offered almost twice the power during the GPU tests compared to the 2023 model. In addition, this is one of the fastest Arc iGPUs which we have tested so far. AMD’s Radeon 780M was clearly beaten in the synthetic tests, too.