Intel 11th Generation Core Tiger Lake-H Performance Review:…

Last week Intel launched their Tiger Lake-H household of laptop computer processors. Aimed on the bigger 14-inch and above laptops, this processor household is Intel’s latest providing for the high-performance laptop computer market, stepping in above Intel’s mobility-focused U and Y collection of chips. Based on the identical Tiger Lake structure that we first grew to become aware of final 12 months, Tiger Lake-H is greater and higher (at the least the place the CPU is anxious), providing as much as Eight CPU cores and different advantages like further PCIe lanes. Overall, Intel’s H-series chips have lengthy served because the efficiency spine of their laptop computer efforts, and with Tiger Lake-H they wish to proceed that custom.

While final week was Tiger Lake-H’s official launch, as has turn out to be more and more widespread for laptop computer launches, the embargoes for the launch data and for {hardware} opinions have landed on separate dates. So, whereas we have been capable of take in regards to the platform final week, it’s solely right now that we’re capable of share with you our knowledge on TGL-H – and our analysis on whether or not it lives as much as Intel’s claims in addition to the way it stacks as much as the competitors.

Like Intel’s different laptop computer chips, Tiger Lake-H has a number of sides, with the corporate needing to steadiness CPU efficiency, GPU efficiency, and energy consumption, all whereas guaranteeing it’s appropriate to fabricate on Intel’s revised 10nm “SuperFin” course of. Balancing all of those components is a problem in and of itself, by no means thoughts the truth that arch-rival AMD is trying to compete with their very own Zen Three architecture-based Ryzen 5000 Mobile (Cezanne) APUs.

Intel’s Reference Design Laptop: Core i9-11980HK Inside

For our Tiger Lake-H efficiency overview, Intel has as soon as once more despatched over certainly one of their reference design laptops. As with the Tiger Lake-U launch final 12 months, these reference design laptops aren’t retail laptops in and of themselves, however extra of a sophisticated engineering pattern designed to exhibit the efficiency of the underlying {hardware}. In this particular case, the BIOS identifies that the laptop computer was assembled by MSI.

Wanting to place their finest foot ahead by way of laptop computer efficiency, Intel’s TGL-H reference design laptop computer is, as you’d think about, a moderately high-end system. The 16-inch laptop computer relies round Intel’s finest TGL-H half, the Core i9-11980HK, which gives 8 Willow Cove structure CPU cores with SMT, for a complete of 16 threads. This processor can turbo as excessive as 5.0GHz on its favored cores, a bit behind Intel’s previous-generation Comet Lake-H CPUs, however preserving clockspeeds shut whereas making up the distinction on IPC.

Unfortunately, their need to place their finest foot ahead implies that Intel has configured the CPU on this system to run at 65W, moderately than the extra typical 45W TDP of most high-end laptops. 65W is a sound mode for this chip, so strictly talking Intel isn’t juicing the chip, however the bulk of the Tiger Lake-H lineup is meant to run at a extra lap-friendly 45W. This offers the Intel system an innate benefit by way of efficiency, because it has extra TDP headroom to play with.