Intel has quietly confirmed that it’ll do an 8-core model of its 11th-gen Tiger Lake chip.
In a September Three weblog publish on Medium seen by Tom’s Hardware, Intel’s Boyd Phelps confirmed that along with the quad-core 11th-gen CPUs due in October, the corporate may even push out an 8-core variant.
“The Willow Cove core increases the mid-level cache to 1.25MB—up from 512KB,” Phelps wrote, on the location often related to 12,000-word essays on avocado toast. “We additionally added a 3MB non-inclusive last-level-cache (LLC) per core slice. A single core workload has entry to 12MB of LLC within the 4-core die or as much as 24MB within the 8-core die configuration (extra element on 8-core merchandise at a later date).”
Intel has up to now solely confirmed quad-core variations utilizing what it now calls “UP3” and “UP4” designations. How the 8-core model shakes out isn’t identified. Based on the deluge of Tiger Lake laptops pushed out two weeks in the past, we predict the method may very well be much like AMD’s.
IntelExpect 8-core 11th-gen Tiger Lake chips too, the corporate quietly confirmed.
We make that guess based mostly on the MSI Stealth 15M gaming laptop computer. While most 11th-gen Tiger Lake laptops are fairly typical 3-pound, thin-and-light laptops with built-in graphics and even Intel’s GeForce MX450, the Stealth 15M encompasses a GeForce RTX 2060 Max-Q paired with an 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPU.
With Tiger Lake supposedly in a position to push 4.8GHz on single-threaded duties and 4.3GHz with all cores lit up, the Stealth 15M may very nicely be aggressive with Intel’s older 10th-gen, 14nm chips in lots of video games. That additionally hints on the a lot improved thermal and processing efficiency of the CPU.
Intel bifurcates its chips into 15-watt U-class CPUs with as much as Four cores for many of the sequence, and 45-watt H-class CPUs with as much as Eight cores. Both sequence of chips are distinctly totally different in capabilities and thermal wants.
AMD additionally has low- and high-power designations for its chips, however they’re truly the identical CPUs, simply tuned down for the decrease thermal dissipation of a small laptop computer or tuned up for a thicker, bigger laptop computer. This offers AMD a bonus in multi-core efficiency, with even thin-and-light laptops like Lenovo’s Slim 7 able to that includes an 8-core chip in it.
With Tiger Lake’s improved thermals and efficiency, we’d assume Intel could also be eyeing the identical method by scaling it from thin-and-light as much as gaming laptops.
Despite Intel’s emphasis on clock pace and new instruction units, plus its Xe graphics, Intel nonetheless must be aggressive in core rely. At least we predict so, as a result of we doubt it’ll have the muscle to beat AMD’s 8-core chips in multi-threaded workloads. An 8-core Tiger Lake chip might ship the punch Intel wants in that one space.
