Intel announced to CES 2021 the new processors Core of eleven 1st generation of the H series for the world of gaming notebooks and beyond. Project-based Tiger Lake (share foundation with existing U-series CPUs, Willow cores Cove and Xe graphics), Intel’s new proposals are characterized by high frequencies, PCI Express 4.0 (x4) support towards the dedicated graphics chip, but a limited number of cores and threads.

We are not in fact facing a full CPU range, but at the moment Intel has announced three quad-core models with Hyper-threading (4 cores / 8 threads) with a TDP between 21 is 35 watt (renamed Tiger Lake H 35 ). Evidently Intel is not yet ready to introduce a process-based CPU 04 SuperFin nanometers with up to 8 cores (and frequency up to 5 GHz with multiple active cores), but don’t despair – this will happen during the quarter , with chips characterized by a TDP of 45 W.

The most powerful model announced by the US company is called Core i7 – 11375 H SpecialEdition , a processor with 12 MB of L3 cache and able, according to the TDP, to work at a base frequency of 3 GHz (21 W) or 3.3 GHz (35 W), accelerating to 4.3 GHz, 4.8 GHz and 5 GHz (Turbo Boost Max 3.0) depending on whether 4, 2 or 1 c are active respectively hours . The processor can be combined with memory LPDDR4x – 4266 or DDR4 – 3200.

Below is Core i7 – 11370 H , quite similar to 11375 H Special Edition except Turbo frequency with a single active core stopping at 4.8 GHz. Finally, here is the Core i5 – 11300 H , a CPU that basically operates at 2.6 GHz ( 21 W) or 3.1 GHz (35 W), and can accelerate to 4 GHz with 4 active cores, or to 4.4 GHz with 1-2 active cores. Another difference is the amount of L3 cache, which drops to 8 MB.

According to Intel, the Core i7 – 11375 H Special Edition offers single-thread performance up to 15% faster than a comparable 10th generation chip , while the progress compared to the 11th generation Cores with TDP of 15 W is about 9%. Multi-threaded performance increases by more than 40%, again referring to an eleventh generation Core from 15 W. In the synthetic test below, the company also speaks of a + 30% vs Best Competitor H-Chip (Ryzen 4000, but tomorrow AMD will announce the series 5000) with single-thread operations.

The graphics performance of Tiger Lake H chips 35, compared to the 10th generation Cores, they are more than double, but this ‘we expected given the goodness of the Xe LP architecture compared to the Gen 9.5 of previous chips. The Killer Wi-Fi 6 / 6E, Thunderbolt 4 and Resizable BAR connectivity, the functionality of the PCI Express protocol that allows the processor to access the entire graphics memory of a dedicated chip to further improve gaming performance. In this regard, Intel underlines that it has collaborated with Nvidia , thus confirming the rumors of the past few hours on the support for Resizable BAR of GeForce RTX mobile (and not just desktop).

According to Intel, over forty notebooks will arrive on the market in the first half of this year , with thickness around 16 mm and display of 14 – 15 inches maximum. We talk about prices starting from 999 dollars and up. The chips will be paired with next generation Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs , based on Ampere architecture, which is why Intel believes that it will be possible to play some titles with good performance in 4K and many others in Full HD beyond 70 FPS.