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After previously sharing benchmark results for the Ryzen 9 5950X, @Tum_Apisak has done it again. This time around, the chip detective uncovered submissions for the Ryzen 5 5600X, which will likely battle it out with Intel’s Core i5-10600K.

Here’s literally everything we know about the Ryzen 5000 series, both official and unofficial, but for a bit of a quick introduction, the Ryzen 5 5600X comes wielding six Zen 3 cores with 12 threads, 32MB of L3 cache, and base and boost clock speeds of 3.7 GHz and 4.6 GHz, respectively. The Core i5-10600K, which also has a six-core, 12-thread design, has 12MB of L3 cache and features a 4.1 GHz base clock and 4.8 GHz boost clock.

The Core i5-10600K clearly boasts higher boost clocks and a more generous thermal limit. Intel’s contender conforms to a 125W TDP (thermal design power) rating, while the Ryzen 5 5600X is rated for 65W. Theoretically, the Core i5-10600K should be faster since it has more breathing room to execute. However, the Ryzen 5 5600X leverages AMD’s groundbreaking Zen 3 microarchitecture, so don’t count the Ryzen 5 5600X out just yet.

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You can’t judge a processor’s overall performance based on a couple of benchmarks, though. Furthermore, preliminary benchmarks should be taken with a bucket of salt. However, from what we’re seeing so far, the Ryzen 5 5600X is poised to be a tough rival.

The SiSoftware Sandra submissions show the Ryzen 5 5600X hauling in Processor Arithmetic and Processor Multi-Media scores of 255.22 GOPS and 904.38 Mpix/s, respectively. The average scores for the Core i5-10600K are 224.07 GOPS and 662.33 Mpix/s. That means the Ryzen 5 5600X outperformed the Core i5-10600K by 13.9% and 36.5%, respectively.

On the other hand, the Ryzen 5 3600X has average Processor Arithmetic and Processor Multi-Media scores of 214.89 GOPS and 625.51 Mpix/s, respectively. Therefore, the Ryzen 5 5600X was up to 18.8% and 44.6% faster than its previous-gen counterpart. The performance improvements fall more or less in line with the gains for the Ryzen 9 5950X over the Ryzen 9 3950X.

SiSoftware Sandra’s just one piece of the puzzle. AMD’s Ryzen 5000 processors go up for purchase on November 5. It’s easy to imagine that we’ll have complete reviews of the new Zen 3 chips for your viewing pleasure with that timeframe.

At the beginning of September, Intel officially presented the first processors 11 generation for laptops called Tiger Lake. The new Intel Core units offer higher performance and a completely new integrated graphics chip Intel Iris Xe Graphics – today you will read our premiere article about one of such processors. Meanwhile, it is known for a long time that Intel is preparing not only more powerful Core systems, but cheaper, weaker and above all cheaper Pentium Gold and Celeron for the cheapest notebooks. The manufacturer has prepared two new units based on the Willow Cove architecture and belonging to 11 Tiger Lake generation. I am talking about Intel Pentium Gold 7505 and Intel Celeron 6305. What are the characteristics of processors compared to their predecessors?

Intel presented two more processors belonging to the Tiger Lake family. I am talking about budget Pentium Gold units 7505 and Celeron 6305.

Intel Pentium Gold 7505 is a 2-core and 4-thread processor. On the other hand, the cheapest Intel Celeron 6305 is still a 2-core and 2-thread unit, without support for Intel Hyper- Threading. However, the processors have new Willow Cove cores, which should still improve performance, especially single-threaded. We expect Intel Pentium Gold 7505 and Celeron 6305 will be placed in very cheap laptops, often below PLN 2,000. The table below presents the specification of CPU units.

Specification	Intel Pentium Gold 7505	Intel Pentium Gold 6405 U	Intel Celeron 6305	Intel Celeron 5305 U
Architecture	Willow Cove	Skylake	Willow Cove	Skylake
Family	Tiger Lake	Comet Lake -U	Tiger Lake	Comet Lake-U
Lithography	10 nm SuperFin	14 nm	10 nm SuperFin	14 nm
Number of cores / threads	2C / 4T	2C / 4T	2C / 2T	2C / 2T
Base clock	2 GHz	2.4 GHz	1.8 GHz	2.3 GHz
Boost Timer	3.5 GHz	–	–	–
RAM controller	DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 3733 MHz	DDR4 2400 MHz LPDDR3 2133 MHz	DDR4 3200 MHz LPDDR4x 3733 MHz	DDR4 2400 MHz LPDDR3 2133 MHz
Cache L3	4MB	2 MB	4 MB	2 MB
Graphics layout	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics 610	Intel UHD Graphics	Intel UHD Graphics 610
TDP	15 In	15 W	15 In	15 In

As you can see, Intel Pentium Gold is the best 7505, which got support for Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, thus achieving the maximum clock speed of 3.5 GHz. The weaker of the Tiger Lake systems – Celeron 6305 – unfortunately no longer supports Turbo. The new processors also got a newer memory controller, now supporting DDR4 memory 3200 MHz and LPDDR4x 3733 MHz. However, none of the chipsets have an integrated Xe-based graphics chip. Like the Core i3 – 1115 G4, it is a weaker Intel UHD Graphics unit. All processors have standard TDP of 15 W.

Source: Intel

The best Chromebooks for every type of user

The best Chromebooks aren’t just laptops that run a few Android apps anymore. Chromebooks can cover a wide variety of computing needs now, and a good Chromebook can be more useful than a mediocre Windows laptop.

The message that many people actually want good Chromebooks — rather than just cheap ones — has gotten through to manufacturers. Many of the best Chromebooks are around $500 or $600, though there are good options in the higher and lower ranges as well. The extra money goes a long way toward getting something you’ll be happy with.

For the first time, the quality of Chromebooks in this range has been consistent. There are so many similarities between the offerings from Asus, Lenovo, Google, HP, Dell, and Samsung that a conspiracy-minded person might suggest they’re all sourcing their components from the same factory. That’s great news if you’re comparison shopping; the majority of this list would be good buys if you can find them at a discount.

Our pick for the best Chromebook is the Acer Chromebook Spin 713, and we’ve selected the Lenovo Chromebook Duet as the best Chromebook for shoppers on a budget. Other picks for the best Chromebooks of 2020 include the Asus Chromebook Flip C434, Google Pixelbook Go, the Google Pixelbook, and the HP Chromebook x360.

An honorable mention is the Samsung Galaxy Chromebook, a gorgeous laptop with a unique color and 4K AMOLED display, which didn’t quite make this list because of its unfortunately short battery life. We’re looking forward to reviewing Lenovo’s Flex 5 Chromebook with a thin 2-in-1 design, and the affordable IdeaPad Flex 3 Chromebook which has a unique chassis and an SD card reader.

What most buyers want in the best Chromebook are likely the same things they want in any laptop: a good keyboard, solid build quality, long battery life, a nice screen, and enough power to do the things you want. More Chromebooks can meet those qualifications than ever before, but these are the ones that rise above the rest.

1. Acer Chromebook Spin 713

Best Chromebook you can buy

Acer’s Chromebook Spin 713 is, hands-down, the best Chromebook you can buy. With a gorgeous 3:2 screen that rivals some more expensive competitors, you’ll have a ton of extra vertical space for your work and multitasking.

The keyboard is excellent with a comfortable, quiet feel, and nice backlighting. There’s even an HDMI port, which you don’t see on a thin Chromebook every day. And (most importantly) the 10th-Gen Intel processors can handle a heavy load of tabs with no problem. The Spin’s speakers aren’t great, and there’s no biometric login, but those are reasonable sacrifices to make for a laptop of this quality at this low of a price.

In a market where the main differences between Chromebooks in this price range boil down to their screens and maybe an included stylus, Acer sets itself apart by making an affordable laptop that’s excellent in almost every way.

2. Lenovo Chromebook Duet

Best budget Chromebook

If you’re looking for an affordable device for on-the-go work, the Lenovo Chromebook Duet delivers excellent value for its low price. It’s an ultra-portable 10.1-inch 2-in-1 device with a detachable keyboard and kickstand cover.

The Duet contains a MediaTek Helio P60T processor, 4GB of RAM, and up to 128GB of storage, and it performs well if you’re just browsing and don’t plan on using a super heavy load. It also uses a version of Chrome OS that’s made for its convertible form factor, including the first version of Chrome that’s optimized for tablet use. When detached from its keyboard, the Duet supports an Android-esque gesture navigation system that makes switching between apps a breeze. But the most impressive feature is battery life; I got close to 11.5 hours of fairly heavy use.

Of course, there are drawbacks. The touchpad and keyboard are quite small, there’s no headphone jack (and only one USB-C port), and the 16:10 screen is a bit dim. But those are reasonable trade-offs to make for such an affordable price. It makes a great secondary device for schoolwork or on-the-go browsing.

3. Asus Chromebook Flip C434

Best 14-inch Chromebook

Asus has a strong history of making good Chromebooks, but the C434 is something special. It’s nearly unique among this class of laptops in offering a big 14-inch screen in a laptop body that’s much closer in size to a 13-inch model. It pulls off that trick by minimizing the bezels around the screen, which is the same thing the best Windows laptops have been doing lately.

Asus nailed the basics, too. The keyboard is great to type on, though it does have the annoying problem of being hard to see in dim lighting because the backlight is the same color as the keycaps. The trackpad is accurate, and I appreciate that there’s not only a USB-A port but that the two USB-C ports are on opposite sides of the laptop so you can plug in on the side you prefer.

There’s even a microSD card slot for expanded storage — and you might need it, as it only comes with 64GB. The processor isn’t the most powerful one you can get in a Chromebook in this price range, but it should be enough for most tasks, especially if you follow our recommendation to get the model with 8GB of RAM.

4. HP Chromebook x360 14

Powerful Chromebook with a sleek design

If you’re looking to get more power and you don’t mind getting a slightly larger laptop, the HP Chromebook x360 14 is a great choice. HP has several configurations that fall under this name, but we suggest the model we tested with 8GB of RAM and 64GB of storage to go along with the i3 processor.

While we picked the Asus because of its elegant design, there isn’t much to complain about on the slightly larger HP. It has the same ports, RAM, and storage. The keyboard is great, and it also sounds slightly better because the speakers are up on the keyboard deck instead of on the bottom.

5. Google Pixelbook Go

Best Google Chromebook

The Google Pixelbook Go is a handsome, no-nonsense 13.3-inch laptop that weighs just 2.3 pounds. It has a sturdy magnesium chassis, and a ridged grip on the bottom to keep itself from slipping on slanted surfaces.

Not only is the Pixelbook Go portable and stylish, but it delivers solid performance, and supports fast charging through either of its USB-C ports. Battery life is also impressive. The Go lasted over eight hours in our testing, and it should get you through a full workday with no problem. But its standout feature is the keyboard, which is quiet with good travel and a springy feel. Verge editor Dieter Bohn found it to be his “favorite thing to type on by a long shot.”

The Go is an expensive product, as Chromebooks go, and it doesn’t top our list because the Chromebook Flip C434 offers similar specs and features for a slightly lower price. But we think plenty of shoppers who value long battery life and lightweight build might prefer to spend a bit more on this device instead.

Pixelbook Go

$649

Prices taken at time of publishing.

Google Pixelbook Go is a handsome, no-nonsense 13.3-inch laptop.

Best Buy

$649

6. Google Pixelbook

Thin Chromebook with beautiful hardware

Google hasn’t updated the Pixelbook since its 2017 release, but if you’re looking for a convertible premium Chromebook, it’s still competitive. It has a beautiful design, combining aluminum and Gorilla Glass with silicone palm rests, and sports a bright touchscreen with 2400 x 1600 resolution. The 3:2 aspect ratio offers extra space compared to 16:9 panels and makes it more comfortable to work in multiple apps and windows without having to zoom out.

The Pixelbook doesn’t have the latest Intel processors since it’s an older product. Still, its Core i5 and 8GB of RAM should be able to handle everyday browsing and multitasking just fine. We also got around eight hours of battery life under a fairly heavy load. The keyboard and touchpad are both fun and comfortable to use — and as a neat bonus, the speakers fire up through the hinge, so audio sounds clearer than it does on many convertible laptops.

Note: Google appears to be discontinuing the Pixelbook, but some models are still available through Google’s store and other retailers.

7. Dell Inspiron 14

Premium 2-in-1 with a built-in stylus

It’s a bit heavy as Chromebooks go, but the 3.99-pound Inspiron 14 is still a sturdy convertible device with brushed aluminum chassis that gives it a premium look. It has a spacious backlit keyboard and a nice 1920 x 1080 display with accurate colors. With an 8th Gen Core i3 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage, it delivers snappy performance for streaming, browsing, multitasking, and even more demanding artistic tasks.

Speaking of artists, the Inspiron 14 comes with a stylus, which lives in a dedicated socket inside the chassis so you don’t have to worry about losing it. Thanks to electromagnetic resonance technology (EMR), it doesn’t need batteries or any kind of charge.

8. Samsung Chromebook Plus v2

Best Samsung Chromebook

The convertible Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 is far from a budget purchase. But it does offer a lot for its price, including a built-in battery-free stylus and an extra front-facing camera for quick photos of blackboards or job sites. (The camera above the keyboard is also surprisingly high-resolution — it’s a 13-megapixel sensor with autofocus.)

The V2 also has a nice design on par with that of other premium Chromebooks, including an aluminum lid and a sturdy hinge. It’s fairly portable at 2.9 pounds, and it has a microSD slot in addition to its two USB-C ports and headphone jack.

9. Asus Chromebook Flip C436

A pricey, premium Chromebook

Disappointing battery life (just over five hours of multitasking and seven hours of looping video) and a hefty price tag keep the Chromebook Flip C436 from topping this list, especially considering the lower price but similar offerings of its predecessor, the Chromebook Flip C434.

Still, if money isn’t an object for you, there’s a lot to like about the 2-in-1 C436. It has a nice, compact, convertible chassis — unlike many convertible devices, it’s actually light enough (2.4 pounds) to feasibly be used as a tablet for an extended period of time. Inside, it has a comfortable and snappy keyboard and a fingerprint reader in the top corner of the deck. The audio is good: there are two Harman Kardon-certified speakers in the hinge, as well as one on each side of the cover. And it’s powered by a 10th Gen Intel Core i3 that performs quite well under a heavy browsing load.

The C436 is a pricey Chromebook, but it certainly looks and feels premium.

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BIOSTAR today announced its new motherboard named B 250 MHC. The motherboard is based on the B 250 single-chip architecture from Intel and is also suitable for the use of older Intel processors of the 6th and 7th generation. According to BIOSTAR, the B 250 MHC is very well suited for business systems. The mainboard supports up to 32 GB of DDR4 main memory in 2 DIMM slots and offers PCI Express 3.0 and USB 3.2 Gen.1.

Based on the B 250 microchip architecture, the motherboard supports the Core i3, i5. i7, Pentium and Celeron processors. The external connections include a PS / 2 keyboard and a PS / 2 mouse port for users of an older mouse or keyboard. To connect a monitor you have the choice between an HDMI connection and VGA. Furthermore, there is of course a Gigabit Ethernet LAN connection as well as 4x USB 3.2 (Gen.1), 2x USB 2.0 and 3x audio, which are based on the ALC 887 technology and 7.1 channels with high-definition audio.

The motherboard offers four SATA III connectors for storage space. The B 250 MHC also has the form factor Micro-ATX (22. 6 cm x 17. 1 cm) and is therefore also compatible with smaller housings. There is official support for the operating systems Windows 7 (32 / 64 bit) / 8.1 (64 bit) / 10 (64 bit). The delivery also includes two SATA cables, an I / O shield, a DVD driver and of course the instructions. The mainboard ric

There is never too much of a good horror movie. The independent studio Frictional Games has proved that it can create an atmospheric representative of this genre. After the extremely successful game SOMA, the creators return to their origins, namely to the Amnesia series, the second part of which, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, was made by another developer – The Chinese Room (authors Dear Esther and Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture). After seven years of waiting, the third installment, which is not intended to be a direct sequel to the story, will be released next week. Therefore, the manufacturer was ready to share the hardware requirements of the PC version on the Steam platform. By the way, a new, extensive gameplay has been released with a comment from developers, which suggests that the game will try to freeze our blood in our veins.

We got to know the hardware requirements of Amnesia: Rebirth, the third installment of the horror series. Pending fixed on 20 October 2020 of the year, you can get the second part for free on the Epic Games Store.

October games 2020 – FIFA, Watch Dogs, Amnesia, Star Wars

In Amnesia: Rebirth we will play the role of Tasi Trianon, who lost her memory. Together with the heroine, we will try to discover the secrets of her past and explain how she ended up in the Algerian desert. In terms of gameplay, it is still good old Amnesia, which is confirmed by several minutes of gameplay. One thing seems certain – the dense atmosphere will often give you shivers down your spine. What PC will we need to be afraid in the new one in Amnesia? Older equipment is enough. Although the Frictional Games studio did not specify the processor models, it can be safely assumed that there are no newer units in them and, for example, in the case of Ryzen 5 it is rather 1600 than 3600. The list of cards in the recommended configuration also looks strange: GeForce GTX 680 against the Radeon RX 580, and there is also … Intel Xe-HPG (Frictional Games studio ran in the future). Here are the full hardware requirements for Amnesia: Rebirth:

	Amnesia minimum hardware requirements: Rebirth	Recommended Amnesia hardware requirements: Rebirth
Operating system	64 – Windows 7/8 bit / 10	64 – Windows 7/8 bit / 00
Processor	Intel Core i3 or AMD FX 2.4 GHz	Intel Core i5 or AMD Ryzen 5
RAM	4 GB	8 GB
Graphics card	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5750 or Intel HD 630 (OpenGL 4.0)	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon RX 580 or Intel Xe-HPG (OpenGL 4.3)
Disk	50 GB free space	50 GB of free space

Amnesia : Rebirth – gameplay shows that there is nothing to be afraid of for the game

In the past, you might have won Amnesia games for free, but if you did not get hold of the previous giveaways, it’s before the premiere of the new version y, which was scheduled for 20 October 2020, Epic Games Store released the second installment – Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs (and Costume Quest 2). You can add it to your account free of charge until 20 October until 17: 00 Polish time. Finally, we would like to remind you that Amnesia: Rebirth will debut not only on PC (Steam), but also on the PlayStation 4 console.

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Intel has finally pulled the veil off of the final specs of its 11th-Generation Tiger Lake processors after slowly trickling out details of the new chips for an entire year. The TIger Lake chips look to slow AMD’s advance with its impressive 7nm Ryzen 4000-series “Renoir” chips that have steadily gained traction over the last several months, but Intel is finally moving on to its 10nm SuperFin process that brings higher clock speeds and a big 20% boost to performance. Intel has also finally shared benchmarks that give us at least some idea of how its chips stack up against the Ryzen competition – Intel claims its quad-core models are faster than AMD’s eight-core Renoir chips, and that its integrated graphics have finally taken the lead.

We recently had the chance to put those claims to the test with a validation platform that Intel provided, giving us a glimpse of what to expect from Tiger Lake in the future. We’ll cover out test results below.

Intel also recently confirmed that we’ll soon see eight-core Tiger Lake models come to market, though the series will be confined to dual- and quad-core models for some time. We’ve also seen the first sign of Tiger Lake desktop PC systems emerge in the preliminary listings for a new line of ASRock NUCs, but we’ll see those systems in more flavors as other vendors release their products.

Intel’s Tiger Lake brings a dizzying array of improvements over the company’s previous-gen Ice Lake with higher clock speeds, a doubling of graphics performance, the first PCIe 4.0 support for laptops, and support for LPDDR4x memory serving as the headline advances. Intel also unveiled its new Evo platform, which is the second-gen of its Project Athena initiative. After Intel shared the technical details of its architecture, the new 10nm SuperFin process, and even more low-level details, we now have all the info condensed down into this article. Let’s start with the chips, then take a look at some of the first Tiger Lake laptops to hit the market.

Intel 11th-Gen Core Tiger Lake At A Glance

Willow Cove cores – quad-core and dual-core models
Intel Iris Xe LP graphics for 2x faster 1080p gaming
10nm SuperFin process gives up to 20% increase in clock frequency
Support for LPDDR5 – LPDDR4x for first models
Industry first PCIe 4.0 for laptops
New media and display engine
WifI 6 and Thunderbolt 4
Release Date: 50+ designs shipping this holiday season (starts in October)
150+ models in total
New Intel Evo (second-gen Project Athena) options
Price: Varies based on laptop

Intel 11th-Gen Core Tiger Lake UP3 Specifications

Intel announced a total of nine new chips. We have the nitty-gritty specs below, but first we’ll break down the meaning behind the confusing mish-mash of product identifiers.

Intel’s Tiger Lake comes with the Willow Cove processing cores and Xe LP graphics on one larger 10nm SuperFin die, and a separate smaller 14nm PCH (platform controller hub) chipset that handles extra I/O and connectivity duties.

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Intel has two basic packages: The larger package on the left is for the high-performance UP3 models (formerly U-Series) that operate within a 12 to 28W TDP, and the UP4 package (formerly Y-Series) on the right for devices that operate at 7 to 15W. These packages are then integrated onto incredibly small motherboards (second picture in the album) that find their way into the new Tiger Lake laptops and thin-and-lights.

The Tiger Lake chips span the Core i7, i5 and i3 families and come with varying levels of graphics performance. Intel splits its Xe LP graphics up into G7 and G4 families. Tiger Lake models with “G7” at the end of the product name come with either 96 or 80 execution units (EUs), with the full-fledged 90 EU models coming with Intel Iris Xe branding. Chips with “G4” at the end of the product name come with 48 EUs. Naturally, the Iris Xe models with more EUs offer the high end of performance, which we’ll see in the benchmarks shortly.

Intel Tiger Lake UP3 Processors
PROCESSOR	CORES/THREADS	GRAPHICS (EUs)	OPERATING RANGE (W)	BASE CLOCK (GHZ)	SINGLE CORE TURBO FREQ (GHZ)	MAXIMUM ALL CORE FREQ (GHZ)	Cache (MB)	GRAPHICS MAX FREQ (GHZ)	MEMORY
Core i7-1185G7	4C / 8T	96	12 – 28W	3.0	4.8	4.3	12	1.35	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i7-1165G7	4C / 8T	96	12 – 28W	2.8	4.7	4.1	12	1.30	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i5-1135G7	4C / 8T	80	12 – 28W	2.4	4.2	3.8	8	1.30	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4266
Core i3-1125G4*	4C / 8T	48	12 – 28W	2.0	3.7	3.3	8	1.25	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-3733
Core i3-1115G4	2C / 4T	48	12 – 28W	3.0	4.1	4.1	6	1.25	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-3733

You’ll notice that Intel has discarded its practice of listing a single TDP value. Instead the company now defines a full dynamic range of performance that spans 12 to 28W with the UP3 models. This allows laptop makers to tailor the chips for the thermal capabilities of their products, with high-end models having sufficient cooling to enable full performance, while lower-end models with less-capable cooling can be tuned to a lower TDP setting. The TDP can even change while in use based upon device temperature, power delivery, and orientation. Intel doesn’t require laptop makers to list their TDP ratings, though, so you’ll have to turn to third-party reviews for the full skinny on performance.

The flagship Core i7-1185G7 leads the UP3 lineup. This chip boosts to 4.8 GHz and has a 3.0 GHz base frequency, both of which are a big increase of 700 MHz over the previous-gen model. Intel has also made a big step forward with a 4.2 GHz all-core boost clock that will help chew through demanding productivity apps. To put that in perspective – the maximum single-core boost from AMD’s fastest Ryzen 4000 processor weighs in at 4.2 GHz. Intel can pull that off on all cores at once, which helps explain some of its performance advantages we’ll see in the benchmarks below.

The 1185G7 also comes with the Xe LP graphics engine with the full complement of 96 EUs, so Intel brands it as Iris Xe. The graphics unit runs at 1.35GHz, an increase of 250 MHz over the previous-gen graphics on the Core i7-1068NG7. The chip comes armed with 12MB of L3 cache and supports LPDDR4X-4266.

The Core i3-1115G4 slots in as the low-end model of this line up. This dual-core quad-thread chip comes with a 3.0 GHz base, 4.1 GHz boost, and impressive 4.1 GHz maximum all-core frequency. The chip’s Xe LP graphics engine comes with 48 EUs and boosts to 1.25 GHz, which is pretty agile for a low-end chip. However, these chips step back from LPDDR4x-4266 support to LPDDR4x-3733, which will hamper performance in some tasks. Notably, the Core i5 and i3 models come with 8MB and 6MB of L3 cache, respectively, which is less than the full 12MB found on the Core i7 models.

Intel 11th-Gen Core Tiger Lake UP4 Specifications

Intel Tiger Lake UP4 Processors
PROCESSOR	CORES/THREADS	GRAPHICS (EUs)	OPERATING RANGE (W)	BASE CLOCK (GHZ)	SINGLE CORE TURBO FREQ (GHZ)	MAXIMUM ALL CORE TURBO (GHZ)	Cache (MB)	GRAPHICS MAX FREQ (GHZ)	MEMORY
Core i7-1160G7	4C / 8T	96	7 – 15W	1.2	4.4	3.6	12	1.10	LPDDR4x-4266
Core i5-1130G7	4C / 8T	80	7 – 15W	1.1	4.0	3.4	8	1.10	LPDDR4x-4266
Core i3-1120G4*	4C / 8T	48	7 – 15W	1.1	3.5	3.0	8	1.10	LPDDR4x-4266
Core i3-1110G4	2C / 4T	48	7 – 15W	1.8	3.9	3.9	6	1.10	LPDDR4x-4266

The UP4 models slot into a 7 to 15W performance range for premium ultra-thin devices, including fanless models. Here we have Tiger Lake Core i7, Core i5, and Core i3 models, just like with the UP3 family, but with pared back frequencies to enable the lower level of operation.

The Core i7-1160G7 comes with four cores and eight threads paired with Iris Xe graphics that operate at a 1.1GHz boost clock, while the low-end dual-core Core i3-1110G4 comes with a 48 EUs that boost up to 1.1 GHz. All of the UP4 models support LPDDR4x-4266.

Intel Tiger Lake Pentium Gold and Celeron

Intel Tiger Lake and Celeron
	Cores / Threads	Base / Boost (GHz)	TDP	L3 Cache	Memory	Graphics	Graphics EU / Clocks
Pentium Gold 7505	2C / 4T	2.0 / 3.5 GHz	15W	4MB	DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4x-3733	UHD Graphics – Xe LP	48 / 1.25 GHz
Celeron 6305	2C / 2T	1.8 / –	15W	4MB	DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4x-3733	UHD Graphics – Xe LP	48 / 1.25 GHz
Celeron 6305E	2C / 2T	1.8 / –	15W	4MB	DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4x-3733	UHD Graphics – Xe LP	48 / 1.25 GHz

Intel recently stealth-launched its Tiger Lake Pentium Gold and Celeron processors, and they come with the unanticipated addition of AVX2 instructions, the Intel Deep Learning Boost technology (using the AVX512-VNNI instruction), and the Intel Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 2.0, matching the more expensive Tiger Lake models. In the past, Intel has removed support for the aforementioned features in its lesser Pentium Gold and Celeron families, so this marks a big step forward on the performance front. Intel also added Turbo Boost support for the Pentium Gold 7505, a first for the mobile Pentium lineup.

The rest of the features are somewhat expected, though we also see the debut of the power UHD Graphics Xe LP graphics engine with 48 EUs and a 1.25 GHz peak clock rate. The processors support cTDP (Configurable TDP), so OEMs can adjust the clocks up to 1.8 GHz and 2.0 GHz for the Celeron models, and 3.9 GHz for the Pentium Gold. We also see that Intel dialed back memory support to LPDDR4-3733 from the 4367 MHz we see with the more expensive models, and also stepped back to PCIe 3.0 for the Pentium and Celeron chips.

Intel Tiger Lake Iris Xe Graphics Gaming Performance

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We’ll cover the details of the Xe LP graphics engine below, but for now, let’s see the new Iris Xe integrated graphics in action in our own testing. However, we have to note that these results came in an Intel-provided reference system, so they might not be representative of the full performance we’ll see in laptops that come to market. Be sure to check out our preview for the full breakdown of the test environment.

Meanwhile, these results do give us a taste of the theoretical heights of Tiger Lake’s gaming performance. Here we can see that if you’re willing to compromise greatly on fidelity, you can run many games at 1080p on a laptop with Iris Xe graphics. It won’t be one of the best gaming laptops, we can only expect so much from integrated graphics, after all. Leading-edge AAA games may create some challenges, but the Xe LP engine is plenty powerful when you run it at an unconstrained 28W setting.

The reference system gave us to 1080p at 30 fps in low settings on most tests, but we’ll see have to wait to see what comes with shipping systems. However, we are undoubtedly getting closer to being able to have short 1080p gaming stints, albeit at reduced fidelity, on Ultrabooks.

Intel Tiger Lake Performance in Desktop Applications

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Here we can see the results of our preliminary application testing on the Tiger Lake reference system, but be aware that all of the caveats of the reference system apply.

Intel’s Tiger Lake pulls off pretty impressive performance in lightly-threaded applications, especially when you consider its four core models square up against AMD’s potent eight-core Ryzen 4000-series chips. As expected, though, AMD’s Ryzen takes the lead when we flip over to applications, like HandBrake, that can use its eight cores and 16 threads more effectively.

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We’re also including some of Intel’s projections here, due to the wider range of benchmarks, but be sure to take those with the same grain of salt as any other vendor-provided benchmarks. Intel shared benchmarks of its chips beating the Ryzen 7 4800U in a whole range of applications, including office and productivity/creativity software. As always, we’ll need to wait for more comprehensive third-party benchmarks of shipping laptops to make a final determination.

A lot of Intel’s claimed advantages stem from its big push into AI capabilities as the company works with a slew of software vendors to enable support for its newest capabilities. These new software packages yield massive improvements, up to 5X, in performance due to support for AI-boosting DL Boost instructions that leverage AVX-512 to boost performance.

Leveraging the AVX instruction set for AI workloads could evolve into a significant advantage over AMD’s Ryzen 4000 processors as Intel’s software support broadens. Intel’s chips have long dropped into lower frequencies as densely-packed AVX instructions work their way through the processor, but Intel has reduced the impact with a new SuperMIM capacitor that keeps voltages steady. That allow the processor to remain in higher frequency ranges during heavy AVX workloads.

Intel doesn’t just focus on AI workloads that run on the Willow Cove cores, though. The Gaussian and Neural Accelerator (GNA) returns, but this time with a new 2.0 revision. This SoC-integrated AI accelerator block is used for processing all sorts of low-power voice-based applications, like translation and transcription, using low-power inferencing. Intel claims that this offload engine can reduce CPU utilization by 20% during these types of operations, but at much lower power consumption. This unit can be also be used for impressive noise cancelation capabilities without taxing the Willow Cove cores.

Intel Tiger Lake Battery Life

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We’ll have to wait until Tiger Lake laptops hit our labs for the full rundown on battery life, but Intel claims to have made significant gains in power consumption. It also says that laptops could provide nearly the same amount of performance on battery as when they are plugged into the wall.

Our testing confirmed that performance remains high while on battery, but that will undoubtedly have an impact on battery life. We weren’t allowed to test battery life on the reference system we were given for testing, but stay tuned for more as shipping systems hit our labs.

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The chart above highlights some Intel’s claims about the performance and efficiency improvements that come from the company’s new focus on providing higher performance while the laptop is under battery power.

As you can see on the right, Intel claims that performance on the Ryzen 4000-series 4800U drops precipitously when you remove the power plug and the laptop operates on battery power alone. In contrast, Intel claims its Tiger Lake chips offer the same amount of performance, even boosting up to the full 50W of power, while on battery power. If that pans out in our testing, that means you’ll still get the full Tiger Lake performance while on battery power, but at the expense of battery life.

Intel Evo – The Second-Gen of Project Athena

Tiger Lake also marks the arrival of Intel’s second generation of Project Athena, but it now comes with Intel Evo branding. The Intel Evo program certifies that a laptop is designed with premium components for the fastest performance, and that the software shipped on the laptops doesn’t hinder performance. Laptops that pass Intel’s criteria earn a custom Intel Evo badge.

Intel has a dizzying number of requirements on both the hardware and software side of the Evo equation, but the goals include battery life projections of nine or more hours for 1080p laptops, eight hours for QHD models, and seven hours for UHD models. Intel also stipulates the system must wake from sleep in less than one second, that performance remains consistent on battery power (as outlined in the previous section), and that the system supports fast charging that gives four hours of battery life on a 30-minute charging session (1080p models).

Intel has an impressive list of the first Evo laptops, with the Acer Swift 5, Asus Zenbook Flip S, Lenovo Yoga 9i and Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 5G being the first models to come to market. Those will be followed by designs from all the usual suspects, like Acer, Asus, Dell, Dynabook, Razer, Samsung, HP, Lenovo, LG and MSI. You can learn more about the program here.

Intel Tiger Lake Laptops

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With over 150 designs eventually coming to market, there will be plenty of Intel Tiger Lake laptops to choose from. However, we do have a list of some of the first devices, which we’ll add to when other notable devices come to market.

Lenovo’s Yoga and IdeaPad 9i series are on the premium side and even have options for lids with a genuine leather covering. The Yoga 9i comes in 14- and 15-inch options that weigh in at up to $1,799 for a fully-equipped 15-inch model. The 14-inch models retail for $1,399 for metal models, and $1,699 for the leather-clad option.

MSI bills the Stealth 15M as the ‘thinnest 15-inch laptop,’ but it still comes armed with a 15.6-inch “IPS-level” panel with a 144Hz refresh rate, Thunderbolt 4 support, Killer Wi-Fi AX1650, and options for PCIe 4.0 x4 storage. MSI hasn’t released pricing yet.

MSI also has its new Summit series on offer for professional users. The new models come in several different configurations, which you can see here, but MSI hasn’t shared pricing yet.

Intel Tiger Lake Thunderbolt 4, PCIe 4.0 Interface, WiFi 6

After losing the glory of being the first to PCIe 4.0 on the desktop (AMD holds that distinction), Intel is the first to bring PCIe 4.0 support to laptops. The faster interface enables speedier SSD options that provide more performance and efficiency than their PCIe 3.0 counterparts.

That marks the beginning of a new era for PCIe 4.0 SSDs, and while some may opine that the speedy interface draws more power, that isn’t the full story. While the PCIe 4.0 interface does draw more power than 3.0, it can transfer data at up to twice the speed per lane. That helps reduce the amount of time the interface is active, which allows the chip to drop into lower power states more quickly. Intel added the ability to shut off or dynamically adjust Tiger Lake’s PCIe interface when it isn’t fully active, and the faster interface could be used to employ fewer lanes during some workloads, both of which will allow you to enjoy the speed of PCIe 4.0 SSDs without making huge sacrifices on battery life.

Intel touts its support for integrated Thunderbolt 4 and USB 4, but these aren’t really ‘new’ protocols. In short, with speeds up to 40Gb/s, Thunderbolt 4 maintains the same maximum speed rating as its predecessor (TB3) and doesn’t enable new features. Instead, vendors are required to enable all of the high-end features that used to be optional, like the ability to hit the 40Gb/s data throughput requirements and support two 4K displays or one 8K display. This approach does simplify the confusing branding surrounding Thunderbolt 3, but from a hardware standpoint, the speeds and feeds remain the same.

Intel Tiger Lake Willow Cove Architecture and 10nm SuperFin Process

Intel also made some finer-grained improvements to its microarchitecture, and the resulting Willow Cove cores feature a rebalanced cache hierarchy to improve performance, dual ring bus fabric, SuperMIM capacitors, and new security enhancements, among many other improvements. We’ve covered the low-level details of the Willow Cove architecture here.

Intel pairs the new Willow Cove cores with its 10nm SuperFin process. The process offers much higher clock speeds at any given voltage, and it can also operate at a lower voltage at any given frequency, too. As a result, the chip has a greater dynamic frequency range from the minimum to maximum voltage, which provides better performance at every power level. That equates to faster mid-range performance in thin-and-light devices, not to mention peak performance in high-performance designs. We have the full details of Intel’s 10nm SuperFin technology here.

Intel Tiger Lake Iris Xe LP Graphics Engine

Intel’s Xe LP (Low Power) architecture powers the Tiger Lake chips, but don’t be fooled by the “Low Power” in the Xe graphics branding, though. The Xe LP graphics engine promises up to twice the performance of the previous-gen Gen11, addressing a key sore point in Intel’s lineup compared to AMD’s capable 7nm “Renoir” Ryzen Mobile processors with Vega graphics.

Intel’s Xe LP comes with a significantly revamped architecture that we covered in our Intel Drops XE LP Graphics Specs deep dive. The net-net is that the engine comes with up to 96 execution units (EU) and ‘significant’ performance-per-watt efficiency improvements over the previous Gen11 graphics, which implies twice the performance at lower power compared to Intel’s Ice Lake.

Intel revamped its display engine, too. Tiger Lake supports hardware acceleration for AV1 decode, up to four display pipelines, 8K UHD and Ultra Wide, 12-bit BT2020 color, and 360Hz and Adaptive Sync, among others listed in the album above. Tiger Lake also supports up to six 4K90 sensors (support starts at 4K30) and can process still images up to 42 megapixels, an increase over the prior 27MP limitation with Ice Lake.

Intel Tiger Lake Pricing and Availability

Intel says that over 50 new designs based on Tiger Lake chips will land in time for the holidays, and there will be over 150 models released in total. The first devices arrive in October. Unfortunately we don’t have an official price list for the chips, as they are only delivered to OEMs. That means our only measure is the pricing on the devices that come to market.

For a deeper look at the state of the desktop PC chips, head over to our Intel vs AMD CPU article.

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Intel’s latest Celeron and Pentium Gold processors for laptops based on the Tiger Lake microarchitecture apparently support most technologies featured by more expensive 11th Generation Core i-series parts. Most notably, they support AVX2 extensions and even an AVX-512 instruction.

Intel’s Celeron and Pentium Gold processors for entry-level laptops are usually based around the same high-performance cores as their more expensive Core counterparts that belong to the same generation of CPUs. To differentiate between more advanced Core and cheaper Celeron and Pentium Gold parts, Intel used to disable numerous features on the latter, slowing them down in certain demanding applications and causing headaches for software developers, as well as frustration among end-users. As it turns out, Intel changes this practice rather significantly with its Tiger Lake-based Celeron 6305/6305E and Pentium Gold 7505 processors.

The new Celeron 6305 and Pentium Gold 7505 CPUs are dual-core processors (with or without Hyper-Threading) with a configurable TDP-up frequency of 1.80 GHz and 2.0 GHz (respectively), 4 MB cache, UHD Graphics based on the Xe-LP architecture with 48 execution units, and a dual-channel memory controller that supports DDR4-3200 as well as LPDDR4X-3733 memory.

Unlike previous-generation Celeron and Pentium Gold processors for notebooks (and embedded applications in case of the model 6305E), these CPUs support AVX2 instructions, the Intel Deep Learning Boost technology (using the AVX512-VNNI instruction), as well as the Intel Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 2.0, the same ‘premium’ features supported by more expensive Tiger Lake processors. Meanwhile, enabling support for AVX2 and the AVX512-VNNI instructions is not particularly surprising given that Intel’s upcoming low-power Gracemont cores will support AVX2 as well sometimes next year.

Surprisingly, Intel’s Celeron 6305 and Pentium Gold 7505 CPUs also feature Intel’s Xe-LP GPU with 48 EUs. That means that they offer significantly more graphics horsepower than Intel’s Core i7 chips with Iris Pro that the company released several years ago, and support up to four displays. Furthermore, the processors feature Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, another premium capabilities for entry-level notebooks. Last but not least, the Pentium Gold 7505 also supports Turbo Boost 2.0 up to 3.50 GHz, a first in the lineup’s history.

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There are still differentiating features between the Core i3-1110G4 and the Celeron 6305 and Pentium Gold 7505. The Core i3 part is clocked considerably higher, has a larger 6 MB cache, supports LPDDR4X-4267 memory, features a PCIe Gen 4 interface, and supports configurable TDP-down in a bid to address sleeker laptops.

In fact, the Core i3-1110G4 is designed for compact, low-power machines and even comes in a smaller package. Intel’s Core-branded Tiger Lake chips support more AVX-512 instructions and, therefore, offer higher performance in certain applications that use them.

It remains to be seen whether Intel adopts the same approach with its upcoming desktop Celeron and Pentium-branded processors and enables AVX2 and Deep Learning Boost. But at least the company is doing it with mobile parts.