After half a decade at 14nm, Intel is finally preparing to ship its first 10nm processors for laptops. These form Intel's 10th generation, codenamed Ice Lake, and incorporate dozens of new features and performance enhancements. This is one of the biggest leaps we've seen from Intel in some time, and the tenth generation could be transformative for laptop gaming, AI-accelerated processing and content creation - not to mention Intel's other big focus here, its Project Athena laptops. There's a lot to unpack here, so take a look at our hand-curated highlights.
First of all, we're looking at the usual trio of product families: Core i3 at the low end, Core i5 in the mid range and Core i7 at the very top - no surprises there. Intel is targeting three different TDPs here - 9W, 15W and 28W - with the fastest chips offering four Sunny Cove cores with hyperthreading, an 8MB LL cache and a maximum turbo frequency of 4.1GHz. Intel quote an average IPC improvement of 18 per cent for 10th-gen chips compared to their 8th-gen counterparts in a variety of tasks, which is a substantial improvement compared to past generations.
Some 10nm processors also come with an improved integrated graphics solution called Iris Plus. The idea here is to offer enough horsepower, more than one teraflop, to guarantee 1080p/60fps in esports titles like Fortnite and Apex Legends. Results provided by Intel show that frame-rates improve by 40 to 80 per cent in titles like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Overwatch, Fortnite and Rainbox Six Siege at low or medium settings compared to Intel's last-generation efforts at the same power targets. However, the new integrated GPU does benefit from faster LPDDR4X-3733 RAM, compared to DDR4 2400 on 8th-gen parts.
from Eurogamer.net http://bit.ly/30OI3sU
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