Intel calls its 5.3GHz 'Comet Lake-H' chip for

Intel’s 10th-gen “Comet Lake-H” cell processors for gaming laptops aspire to one thing that, up to now, AMD’s Ryzen hasn’t emphasised: pure clock pace. Announced Thursday, Intel’s 10th-gen H-series chips go above 5GHz, a brand new frequency excessive for cell PC processors.

In reality, most of Intel’s six new 14-nm Comet Lake H-series chips prime 5GHz, together with a “step up” Core i7 chip, the Core i7-10875H (2.3GHz base, 5.1GHz turbo). Intel has designed it as a barely cheaper various to the brand new uber-premium Core i9-10980HK, although each chips embrace eight cores and 16 threads. It’s this new Core i9 that units a high-water mark for clock pace, cresting at a whopping 5.3GHz.

All this doubtlessly units up a scorching debate amongst cell players: purchase in to Intel’s claims that almost all video games nonetheless are largely depending on single threads, the place clock pace guidelines the roost? Or comply with AMD, which has made its strongest case in many years that its Ryzen 9 4900HS is just the highest-performing cell PC processor in the marketplace?

It seems like we’ll have numerous factors of comparability, as Intel’s promising greater than 100 totally different methods, largely geared toward players and content material creators, will embrace the brand new H-series chips. Pre-orders for these PCs will start April 2, with methods beginning to ship on April 15.

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Intel’s Comet Lake-H pushes properly above 5GHz

Comet Lake-H isn’t Intel’s first cell gaming chip, nevertheless it’s the primary to seem in such a large swath of laptops, together with thin-and-lights. Intel didn’t even make a Ninth-gen Core chip for thin-and-light PCs, so the prior Intel Core i9-9980HK and its cousins ended up being stuffed into 4-pound notebooks just like the Asus ZenBook Pro, Dell Precision 15, or the Apple MacBook Pro 15.

In distinction, Intel expects greater than 30 methods utilizing Comet Lake-H can be thin-and-light designs slimmer than 20mm. Intel executives stated that Comet Lake-H can be featured in designs throughout the patron, business, and workstation markets, which improvements together with 300Hz shows and HDR1000 panels. 

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Every chip in Intel’s new Comet Lake-H lineup consumes 45W, which makes them much more highly effective and power-hungry than Intel’s well-received 28W ”Ice Lake” chips launched final yr. (AMD’s Ryzen 4000 sequence are 35W chips.)

One query is why Intel constructed a “Comet Lake-H” chip, reasonably than design a extra highly effective model of the well-rounded Ice Lake chip. The thought, in accordance with Frederik Hamberger, Intel’s common supervisor of premium and gaming laptops, was to design Comet Lake-H particularly for players and content material creators, every of which generally choose a discrete GPU. As such, the Comet Lake-H chips don’t embrace built-in graphics. “We think about catering to the end user with a Comet Lake-H focus on frequency and best performance…with a big pipeline to the discrete graphics,” Hamberger stated.

Another generational enchancment is the reminiscence. While the Ninth-gen cell Core chips used DDR4-2666 reminiscence, the Comet Lake-H sequence bumps that to DDR4-2933.

How quick is Intel’s Comet Lake-H, precisely?

So we all know how briskly these chips are, by way of clock pace. But precisely how a lot efficiency are they anticipated to ship?

Recall Intel’s newfound love of real-world benchmarks: nice for indicating what kind of efficiency you’ll count on working real-world purposes, however awful for evaluating Intel’s choices towards the competitors. PCWorld requested Intel for Cinebench numbers to offer extra context, and was politely refused. So now we have to make use of what Intel supplied us, by way of comparisons towards its personal chips.

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