Last year, Intel introduced not only Tiger Lake-U processors to the laptop market, but also the first dedicated graphics chips based on the Xe-LP architecture (including Iris Xe MAX Graphics, Server GPU). Last summer, during the Architecture Day conference, Intel announced graphics cards dedicated to players. These systems are to be based on the Xe-HPG architecture, supporting, among others hardware ray tracing acceleration, as do the NVIDIA GeForce RTX and AMD Radeon RX 6000 (NAVI 21). In the latest drivers, the manufacturer has introduced two new identifiers relating to the so-called DG2 – Discrete Graphics 2. Intel DG2 is an early name for graphics cards based on the aforementioned architecture. The new entry gives us some idea of the possible specification of the cards.
In the new Intel drivers there are mentions of DG2 (Xe-HPG) graphics chips, featuring 128 and 512 Execution Units.
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Last year Intel confirmed that the debut of Xe-HPG graphics cards will take place in 2021 year. The specific release date of the first chips is still unknown, but according to reports so far, the premiere may coincide with the presentation of the 8-core Intel Tiger Lake-H processors. It is therefore possible that the DG2 chips will appear in the second quarter of the year, as will the processors. Then Intel will be able, together with OEM partners, to prepare notebooks based entirely on the Intel platform. Also according to earlier information, Intel DG2 cards can be equipped with 6 or 8 GB of GDDR6 memory (192 – bit and 256 – bit). We also know that DG2 chips will be produced in external factories – TSMC and 6 nm lithography are the most typed here.
References have appeared in the latest manufacturer’s drivers for graphics chips for DG2 (Xe-HPG cards). According to the identifiers, the first chip has 128 EU execution units, the second one 512 EU. Following this lead, the first chip will be equipped with a total of 1024 stream processors, more powerful in 4096 stream processors. Intel DG2 with 128 EU seems to be a more budget proposition, competing with cards such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT. However, the second card is already a higher shelf, which may aspire to compete with NVIDIA and AMD cards based on Ampere and RDNA 2 architecture.
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CES 2021 is coming up soon and it looks like ASUS is looking to tease some of its new announcements ahead of time. In a couple of social media posts, we get brief looks at new upcoming laptops for the TUF Gaming and ROG lines. Given the timing, these laptops are likely to include a combination of RTX 30 series mobile GPUs, Intel Tiger Lake CPUs or AMD Ryzen 5000H laptop processors.
According to the TUF Gaming laptop tease, it seems that Asus is redesigning the cooling system and the laptop casing. The new dual-fan cooling design should be superior to the one that’s currently used.
The ROG laptop tease doesn’t show much either, but we do get a quick a quick flash of the laptop’s casing and keyboard. Of course, no specific internal hardware announcements have been made yet, but we’re expecting AMD to announce Ryzen 5000H series mobile CPUs and Nvidia to unveil RTX 30 Mobile for laptops during CES 2021, so these laptops will likely include configuration options for both.
All will become clear during ASUS’s own CES 2021 event on the 12th of January at 6PM GMT.
KitGuru says: Are you considering buying a new gaming laptop? Will you be keeping an eye on CES announcements to see what new models are coming out this year?
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2020 has seen the release of a number of Intel processors – not just on the desktop side with the 10th Gen Core family, but also on the mobile side, where we saw Tiger Lake and Lakefield emerge. We go over our top 5 Intel CPUs of 2020, encompassing both desktop and mobile.
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KitGuru says: It’s been a busy year for Intel, and if the rumours are to be believed, we can expect 11th Gen Core processors for desktop coming pretty quickly in 2021.
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A GPU-Z validation file submitted to TechPowerUp yesterday has reportedly uncovered the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q’s complete specifications. Gigabyte is reportedly the vendor of the device and aligns with the brand’s latest Aorus and Aero gaming laptops that features the same GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q. Nevertheless, the information should be taken with a pinch of salt since Nvidia hasn’t officially announced its mobile Ampere graphics cards yet.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q reportedly utilizes the GA104 silicon, which is the same one that powers the GeForce RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti. The die selection seems likely, since the GA104 silicon is both much smaller than the GA102 silicon that powers the GeForce RTX 3080 and the GA104 GPUs have much lower TDPs. By comparison, the RTX 3070 desktop GPU has a 220W TDP while the 3080 has a 320W TDP. Similarly, GA104 measures 392 mm², while the GA102 checks in at 628 mm². Given the more confined space in a laptop chassis, plus power restrictions, there’s a strong incentive to using the smaller GA104 chip.
What’s interesting is that the GPU-Z submission insinuates that Nvidia has endowed the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q with the full GA104 die. As a result, the mobile flagship Ampere SKU would have 48 enabled Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs) at its disposition, which boils down to 6,144 CUDA cores, 192 Tensor cores and 48 RT cores. For reference, the GeForce RTX 3070 only enjoys 46 out of the potential 48 SMs. Of course, it has the 3080 branding, so Nvidia had to do everything it could to help it bridge the gap between the desktop and mobile parts, but the rumored specs show just how far Nvidia has had to go.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q Specifications
GeForce RTX 3080
GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q*
GeForce RTX 3070
Architecture (GPU)
Ampere (GA102)
Ampere (GA104)
Ampere (GA104)
CUDA Cores
8,704
6,144
5,888
RT Cores
68
48
46
Tensor Cores
272
192
184
Texture Units
272
192
184
Base Clock Rate
1,440 MHz
780 MHz
1,500 MHz
Boost Clock Rate
1,710 MHz
1,245 MHz
1,730 MHz
Memory Capacity
10GB GDDR6X
8GB GDDR6
8GB GDDR6
Memory Speed
19 Gbps
12 Gbps
14 Gbps
Memory Bus
320-bit
256-bit
256-bit
Memory Bandwidth
760 GBps
384 GBps
448 GBps
ROPs
88
96
96
L2 Cache
5MB
4MB
4MB
TDP
320W
80W
220W
Transistor Count
28.3 billion
17.4 billion
17.4 billion
Die Size
628 mm²
392 mm²
392 mm²
*Specifications are unconfirmed.
The GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q will purportedly rock a 780 MHz base clock and 1,245 MHz boost clock. However, bear in mind that this is the Max-Q variant that’s tailored toward thin and light gaming laptops. The mobile, more commonly referred to as the Max-P, variant has more thermal headroom to stretch its legs. It’s not etched in stone, but the Max-Q and Max-P variants typically feature TDP (thermal design power) ratings up to 80W and 150W, respectively.
Not that FP32 performance is the end-all and be-all metric, but the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q should be capable of delivering up to 15.30 TFLOPS of output. In contrast, the GeForce RTX 3070 delivers 20.31 TFLOPS, offering 32.7% higher FP32 performance, and the desktop 3080 is potentially twice as fast — and also draws four times as much power.
It’s worth noting that if these specs are correct, Nvidia is alterting recent strategy quite significantly for its mobile parts. The RTX 20-series mobile chips used the same GPU as their desktop counterparts (so 2080 Max-Q was TU104, just like the 2080 desktop). The same was true of most GTX 10-series and GTX 900-series mobile chips. The last time Nvidia did the “desktop minus one” approach to mobile GPUs was with the 700-series, where the 780M used GK104 while the GTX 780 desktop used GK110. Just like Nvidia skipped doing mobile 2080 Ti and 1080 Ti, likely due to power requirements, it’s effectively skipping the 3080 and 3090 performance tiers with Ampere.
In regards to the memory, the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q appears to come equipped with 8GB of GDDR6. However, this may be one of two configurations that Nvidia will offer since we’ve already seen retailer listings of a GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q with 16GB of GDDR6.
While we can’t speak for the 16GB variant, the 8GB version evidently runs at 12 Gbps across a 256-bit memory interface, contributing to a memory bandwidth up to 384 GBps. So, the GeForce RTX 3070’s memory throughput is only 16.7% higher than the GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q.
Since Ampere is a high performer, laptop vendors will probably pair the graphics card with the upcoming Intel Tiger Lake-H and AMD Ryzen 5000 (Cezanne) processors. The GeForce RTX 3080 Max-Q, like its other Ampere siblings, can leverage the PCIe 4.0 interface; however, only Tiger Lake-H supports the aforementioned interface. That doesn’t mean that Ryzen 5000 will lose out on any performance though, since it hasn’t been demostrated if PCIe 4.0 could actually boost graphical performance in a mobile package.
We’re looking forward to testing actual RTX 30-series mobile parts and seeing how it stacks up to the existing RTX 20-series. Ampere desktop GPUs have increased TDP to help boost performance, but tuning a chip for maximum efficiency can still yield competitive results. A 20 percent cut in clock speeds, with lower voltages, often means close to half the power requirements. Will RTX 3080 Max-Q be able to surpass the RTX 2080 Super Max-Q? Almost certainly. The full power RTX 2080 Super Max-P will be a more difficult target.
Gigabyte Technology unexpectedly disclosed the launch timeframe for Intel’s upcoming 11th-Gen Core processors for desktops codenamed Rocket Lake. As it turns out, the new chips are expected to show up on the market a few months from now, in March 2021.
Intel has already revealed most details about its Rocket Lake processors, and in the last few weeks, multiple leaks have given us a glimpse into the performance of these CPUs in various benchmarks. The company is expected to make some additional announcements about Rocket Lake at CES this month, though this has not been confirmed. It just hasn’t shared the actual timeframe of availability for the new processors yet.
According to Gigabyte, the new Rocket Lake CPUs will hit the market this March, which is somewhat later than many expected, albeit still consistent with Intel’s promise to make the chips available in the first quarter of the year.
Intel’s 11th-Gen Core processors for desktops (Rocket Lake) will pack up to eight cores based on the Cypress Cove microarchitecture (derived from the Sunny Cove microarchitecture used by the Ice Lake products) and are projected to significantly improve performance when compared to their 10th-Gen predecessors (Comet Lake). In particular, Intel promises tangible ‘double-digit’ instructions per cycle (IPC) gains enabled primarily by the new microarchitecture as well as a brand-new memory controller.
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It’s still unclear if the upcoming Rocket Lake chips will feature any frequency improvements over Comet Lake CPUs to better compete against AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000-series processors that pack up to 16 cores. Intel’s 11th-Gen Core processors for desktops will still be made using one of the company’s 14 nm process technologies, and it is uncertain whether it has any further clock speed potential in it.
Intel’s Rocket Lake processors will also support AVX-512 VNNI instruction to enable Intel’s Deep Learning Boost technology to speed up AI algorithms.
Another important improvement that Rocket Lake will bring to market will be its new graphics core based on the Xe-LP architecture (that powers Tiger Lake CPUs) along with all-new media encoders (supporting 12-bit 4:4:4 HEVC, VP9, and SCC as well as 4:2:0 AV1 codecs) as well as new display pipelines (supporting up to three 4Kp60 or up to two 5Kp60 outputs).
One significant enhancement for Intel’s next-gen Rocket Lake processors will be support for a total of 20 CPU PCIe 4.0 lanes, with PCIe 4.0 x16 and a PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD connection directly to the processor.
Intel says the new Rocket Lake CPUs will be compatible with existing Z490 and H470-based motherboards that support processors with a 125W TDP (which translates to 250W under boost). Meanwhile, the new processors will add support for 20 CPU PCIe 4.0 lanes along with the latest Resizable Base-Address Register (Resizable-BAR) to existing platforms.
Intel itself has yet to officially confirm the availability timeframe of its Rocket Lake processors for desktops.
io-Tech’s delivery bids farewell to a pandemic-stained year 2020 and wishes everyone a better year 2021!
In many ways, the special year 2020 is finally coming to an end. SARS-CoV-2 and the resulting COVID – 19 swelled rapidly into a worldwide pandemic that affected everyone’s lives in one way or another.
In computers and consumer electronics, the pandemic was reflected above all in increased demand. This became clear with the release of CPU, graphics and console releases later in the year. Various bots and trocars took a significant share of the products launched until the market, and the queues of ordinary consumers for, among other things, new graphics cards will continue well into next year, even though the first ones went on sale as early as September. Trocars, on the other hand, laugh on their way to the bank after plucking desperate consumers for double or even triple the price of the products. This has led, inter alia, to an initiative by British MEPs to ban the trocha for console and computer components by law
. The year contained many interesting innovations in the field of technology publications. Struggling with problems with its manufacturing processes, Intel was able to release a new generation 10 nanometer Tiger Lake processors for laptops and NVIDIA chose Samsung and its 8-nanometer manufacturing process as the manufacturer of its new consumer circuits. The new GeForce RTX 30 series, in particular, significantly improved beam tracking performance and was given the dubious honor of being the first of the fall releases to really show how badly production is lagging behind demand. AMD, for its part, was able to release the new Zen 3 architecture and export the crown of the fastest gaming processor, at least temporarily, in addition to which the RDNA2 architecture brought accelerated beam tracking to next-generation consoles and Radeon RX 6000 series graphics cards.
Earlier next year, more models are expected to be available for both AMD’s Radeon RX 6000 series and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 30 series. In addition, Intel is expected to release new ones 11. generation of Rocket Lake codenamed processors immediately during the first quarter. Intel is also working on the first standalone Xe-HPG game graphics cards.
We at io-Tech want to thank all our readers for the past year and wish everyone a safer and better New Year 2021!
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At the CES in early January 2021 AMD will present the next generation of mobile Ryzen processors alias Cezanne and Lucienne . At the same time, many notebook manufacturers are taking the opportunity and will be announcing the corresponding notebooks. NVIDIA will also probably present the mobile Ampere variants, which also means that we will see notebooks with new processors and GPUs.
IThome already seems to have corresponding information on a variant of the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G. 15. With the new CPUs and GPUs, these will of course be available in different equipment variants. The high-end model will apparently be equipped with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX, the new top model with eight cores. This achieves a base and boost clock of 3.3 and 4.7 GHz, respectively. The CPU cores are based on the Zen 3 architecture. On the GPU side, a GeForce RTX 3080 is mentioned, which is likely to be installed in a Max-Q variant – but this has not yet been confirmed.
Equipment with up to 17 GB DDR4 memory and a 1 TB SSD is also possible. In addition to this maximum configuration, there are also model variants with a Ryzen 7 5800 H and Ryzen 5 5600 H as well as smaller GeForce RTX models.
When it comes to the display, the willing buyer has the choice between a 4K display with 60 Hz, WQHD display with 165 Hz or FHD display with 300 Hz. Depending on the display and The resolution of the screen diagonal is 15, 6 or 17 Customs.
Flood of mobile hardware and notebooks expected
The CES 2021 should have the notebook market in focus. As I said, AMD will present its Ryzen 5000 series for notebooks. NVIDIA, the mobile amp versions, and Intel is responding to the stronger competition with Comet Lake-H and Tiger Lake-H. The main focus is on the gaming hardware and so, in addition to ASUS, manufacturers such as Acer, Gigabyte, MSI, Razer and some other new notebooks will be presented.
The new Surface Pro 8 range will debut presumably in January 2021, with a cheaper entry proposal that will be able to offer good elaboration
by Paolo Corsini published 30 December 2020 , at 09: 01 in the Laptops channel Intel Core Microsoft Surface 2-in-1
New information on next generation 2-in-1 Microsoft Surface Pro , ready to debut in version 8. Po what changes to the external appearance but many news under the body those expected, starting from the processors that will be proposed in the 11th generation Intel Core series based on Tiger Lake architecture .
The WinFuture site among the news is Microsoft’s choice of provide a minimum of 8GB of system memory for the cheaper version , overcoming the 4GB limit of the entry level proposal of the Surface Pro range now on the market.
This is an important step as it allows you to better manage the needs of the Windows operating system 10 also with the proposal entry of the range. A similar choice was also made for the processor: from the Core M3 of the entry model of the Surface Pro 7 family we have now moved on to the Core i3 CPU of the Tiger Lake family , able to offer superior performance both for the CPU and GPU compartment.
Below are the different configurations of the Surface Pro 8 that are expected to debut in the European market; they differ, as always, for the amount of system memory and onboard storage, for the processor and for the presence of an integrated LTE modem .
Surface Pro 8 i3 8 / 128 GB
Surface Pro 8 LTE i5 8 / 128 GB
Surface Pro 8 LTE i5 8 / 256 GB
Surface Pro 8 LTE i5 16 / 256 GB
Surface Pro 8 i5 8 / 128 GB
Surface Pro 8 i5 8 / 256 GB
Surface Pro 8 i5 16 / 256 GB
Surface Pro 8 i7 16 / 256 GB
Surface Pro 8 i7 16 / 512 GB
Surface Pro 8 i7 16 / 1TB
Surface Pro 8 i7 32 / 1TB
The debut of the new Surface Pro 8 range, alongside the Surface Laptop 4, is scheduled for January 2021 .
Expected to debut at CES 2021 new gaming notebooks combined with Intel Tiger Lake processors always with quad core architecture, but which thanks to the higher consumption will offer greater performance
by Paolo Corsini published 28 December 2020 , at 08: 01 in the Processors channel Intel Core Tiger Lake
One of the expected news for the edition 2021 of the CES , which due to the pandemic will only be held in virtual form, is the launch of new Intel processors of the Tiger Lake family specifically designed for pairing with high-end gaming notebooks.
These CPUs are indicated with the name of Tiger Lake-H 35
The TDP of these processors should be equal to 35 Watt , therefore greater than that of Tiger Lake U series models which have default TDP equal to 15 Watt with the possibility of being selected from a minimum of 12 Watts up to a maximum of 28 Watt depending on notebook manufacturer preferences.
These man they will keep quad core architecture , the same as those on the market, benefiting from higher clock frequencies thanks to the higher TDP. In this way Intel will be able to offer latest generation solutions in combination with the new gaming notebooks expected to debut on the market, equipped with the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX GPUs 3000 whose launch should take place at CES 2021.
These processors will be side by side, presumably during the second quarter 2021, from Tiger Lake-H proposals with TDP equal to 45 Watt and 6 and 8 core architecture depending on version. The production process at 10 nanometers and the basic architecture will be maintained, but thanks to the higher consumption and higher number of cores these CPUs will be paired with high-end gaming notebooks presumably paired with the most powerful GPUs.
The 11th generation Tiger Lake processors are used by various thin notebooks on the market ; some manufacturers have chosen to provide operating settings that push the TDP even beyond the 28 Watts from specification obtaining a net increase in performance with obviously repercussions in terms of consumption and operating noise. Tiger Lake-H processors 35 will actually push this approach further, exploiting the potential of this architecture in combination with appropriately sized cooling systems.
Intel announces that it has doubled its production capacity in the last 3 years, adding capacity with processes at 10 nanometers and 10 nanometers, in order to meet the increased market demand
by Paolo Corsini published 26 December 2020 , at 09: 01 in the Processors channel Tiger Lake Ice Lake Core Intel
Fans have had the opportunity to be updated over the last years, about p problems encountered by Intel in the transition to production technology at 01 nanometers . At present only a fraction of Intel processors are produced in this way, leaving the remaining large part still struggling with the process at 14 nanometers which has long characterized the production of American company.
The first transition to technology a 10 nanometers was in fact completely skipped by Intel , with only one processor for notebook systems that was made commercially available within a Lenovo notebook sold primarily in the Chinese market.
Subsequently the production was refined , allowing in the autumn 2019 to present the first CPUs of the Ice Lake family built with a process nanometers , More recently, in the fall 2020, Intel entered on the market the first processors of the Tiger Lake family , also better known as belonging to the 11th generation Core range.
Arrived at the end of this unexpected 2020 Intel summarizes what is its situation regarding production capacity, highlighting a very interesting data: in the last 3 years the company has doubled its wafer production in volumes in order to meet the specific needs of its customers , adding the additional capacity to 14 nanometers with that at 10 nanometers.
This result has been achieved through a series of innovations, and through the progressive transition to the production process at 10 nanometers with both an improvement in production yields . It is in fact essential, for both Intel and any semiconductor company, not only to increase the number of wafers produced but also to increase the number of working chips produced with each wafer. In a video made available in recent days, the company summarized the work that has been developed internally over the past 3 years within its factories.
Production with technology a 10 nanometers, time of type SuperFin as indicated internally by Intel, proceeds in 3 different production sites: Oregon Arizona and Israel . These factories produce 10th and 11th Generation Core processors a 10 nanometers, respectively Ice Lake and Tiger Lake, awaiting the transition to this production technology also of future solutions. In particular, in the 2021 we will see at the debut the promi processors of the Xeon range based on the 10 nanometers, with which the American company intends to consolidate its presence in the datacenter.
Bye Hello 2021! It will also kick off next year with keynote streams from the three major chip manufacturers AMD, Intel and Nvidia on the occasion of the consumer electronics trade fair CES 2021. The latter takes place purely digitally, but initially only changes slightly for end users due to the streams.
Intel’s head of the client division, Gregory Bryant, speaks on 11. January 2021 at 22 clock German time via desktop and notebook processors. At the 12. January 2021 at 17 o’clock follows AMD’s boss Lisa Su with a keynote about Radeon and Ryzen; Nvidia has scheduled the GeForce event “Game On” for 18 clock.
Companies like to use CES trade fairs for an outlook on the rest of the year. Intel wants 2021 to bring two new processor generations for desktop PCs: Rocket Lake-S as Core i – 11000 starts at the beginning of the year – according to speculation, the chip manufacturer is targeting March. New mainboards with 500 chipsets like the Z 590 according to the website WCCFTech could go on sale in January. These would then initially only run with Comet Lake CPUs (Core i – 10000).
Promising notebook competition With Rocket Lake, Intel is pushing another 14 – Nanometer design, but this time not again as a Skylake offshoot, but with backported “Cypress Cove” -Computing cores and Xe graphics unit. Something between Ice Lake and Tiger Lake, but with tried and tested – some might say old – manufacturing technology. Intel seems to give Rocket Lake only a short lifetime, however, because CEO Bob Swan has already confirmed that the successor Alder Lake will also appear 2021. In the series Intel brings a combination of fast Cove and efficient Atom cores 10 -nm technology, plus the new CPU version LGA 590 and DDR5 controller.
For notebooks, Tiger Lake-H, the first mobile processor from Intel with 10 – nm structures and more than four cores. The eight-core should compete with AMD’s Ryzen Mobile, which will receive an update to the Zen 3 architecture next year – called Cezanne for notebooks.
At CES 2020 announced AMD Renoir as Ryzen 4000 U (15 Watt) and Ryzen 4000 H (35 / 45 Watt) an, 2021 will probably follow Ryzen 5000 U and Ryzen 5000H. Traditionally, however, it takes months for such notebooks to reach retailers. The desktop processors Ryzen 5000 already attest Zen 3 a high single-threading performance – the duel Tiger Lake vs. Be Cezanne.
We already talked to you on some occasion about GPD Win 3, a striking portable console with a PC soul with eleventh generation Intel Core Tiger Lake processors , touch screen, side controls and a slide-out keyboard.
Until now we did not know its price and availability, but the company has already started its launch with a price of 799 Dollars through your financing campaign on Indiegogo.
Up to a Core i7 – 1165 G7 with Iris Xe iGPU by 96 EUs in this GPD Win 3
This curious team will arrive in several configurations, with a Core i7 – 1165 G7 in its most powerful configuration, a 4-core 8-thread processor with the latest integrated Iris Xe graphics from 96 Eus from Intel how good a result we have seen in our reviews It will be accompanied by 24 4 GB of LPDDR4x memory. 266 MHz and 1 NVMe SSD TB.
That GPu will give life to the “console”, so that you do not suffer in demanding games, the screen only has a resolution of 1. 280 x 720 pixels (the same as a Nintendo Switch), perhaps somewhat reduced by today’s standards, about to enter the year 2021.
His diet is based on a 44 battery under that screen touch and is charged with a 90 W. It includes the latest in connectivity, such as Thunderbolt 4 with support for external docks, WiFi 6, USB and bluetooth 5.0, as well as a minijack.
All with a weight of only 560 grams. It will arrive for a price of 799 dollars for the model equipped with a Core i5 – 1135 G7 and 899 dollars for the model with the Core i7 – 1165 G7.
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Intel’s Tiger Lake-H models are quad-core, while AMD’s leaked Cezanne-H models are 6- and 8-core.
Both AMD and Intel are preparing new processors and APUs for high-performance laptops for release next year. In the case of both companies, models for high-performance laptops are identified by the H mark. Intel H-Series TDP values are typically configurable 54 and watt and AMD 35 and 35 watt.
Familiar credit leaker Tum Apisak has unearthed a long slip of results from the Geébench test app’s results database with future H-series from both companies. On behalf of AMD, Ryzen 5 5600 H, 7 7290 is represented by Cezanne architecture. H and 9 5900 HX when results are available from Intel for Core i5 of Tiger Lake architecture – 11300 For H and i7 – 11370 for H.
In Geenekch results, Core i7 – 11370 H holds the top spot, but on all cores AMD’s additional cores get their rights and even the slowest Ryzen 5 8973 H covers i7:
Geekbench 5 database entries of four Ryzen 5000H mobile SKUs and two Intel Tiger Lake-H processors have been spotted. Expected to be announced in CES 2021, both the Ryzen 5000H and Tiger Lake-H series should be paired with the upcoming Nvidia RTX 30 series mobile GPUs, once they have been released.
From the Geekbench 5 database entries shared by @TUM_APISAK, it looks like we’re about to witness a competitive battle between the blue team and the red team in the laptop processor market.
The scores in multi-thread benchmarks of the Ryzen 5000H processors are higher, as expected due to the higher core count. On the other hand, the single-core scores are quite competitive, with the Tiger Lake i7-11370H processor getting slightly ahead of the Ryzen 9 5900HX, while the i5-11300H CPU beats the rival Ryzen 5 5600H by about 5%.
The database entries also list some specifications of the SKUs including base and boost clocks, core and thread count, and L1, L2, and L3 cache. In the following table, there are the specifications taken from the Geekbench 5 database:
SKU
Cores/Threads
Base/Boost Clock
L1/L2/L3 Cache
Average 1-Core
Average Multi-Core
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
8/16
3.3/4.7GHz
0.5/4/16MB
1551
9021
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H
8/16
3.2/4.45GHz
0.5/4/16MB
1462
7460
AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
6/12
3.3/4.25GHz
0.4/3/16MB
1371
5933
Intel Core i7-11370H
4/8
3.3/4.8GHz
0.3/5/12MB
1569
5075
Intel Core i5-11300H
4/8
3.1/4.4GHz
0.3/5/8MB
1438
4911
Compared to the previous generation, the Ryzen processors have up to 37% higher single-core scores, and up to 18% higher multi-core scores, which were probably achieved due to the higher IPC and clocks of the Ryzen 5000H processors.
Regarding the Tiger Lake-H CPUs, given their core count, this should be the 35W TDP processors coming out before the 45W TDP CPUs, expected to come with up to 8C/16T at a later date. Both Intel processors seem fairly similar, with the only difference being in the clock frequencies.
Both Intel Tiger Lake-H and Ryzen 5000H processors are expected to be announced in CES 2021, scheduled for January 11-14, 2021.
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Matthew Wilson 19 hours ago Featured Tech News, Software & Gaming
Back in June, the KFC Gaming Twitter account jokingly posted images of the ‘KFConsole’, a KFC bucket shaped console with a compartment to warm up fried chicken. Now, several months later, it is no longer a joke, as KFC has teamed up with Cooler Master to build the system.
The KFConsole is now real. It will be based on an Intel NUC 9 Extreme, housed in a customised Cooler Master NC100 chassis made to look like the original concept design. Aside from the Intel CPU, there will also be an ASUS GPU inside to make it fit for gaming – although the exact model GPU is not currently known. We do know that the KFConsole will feature a ‘first of its kind’ hot-swappable GPU slot, so users will be able to upgrade the graphics card themselves if they wish.
Other specifications include two Seagate FireCuda Gaming NVMe SSDs, combining for 2TB of storage. The system will also support 240Hz output, Virtual Reality and ray tracing, which all makes sense, as this is essentially a PC – albeit, one with a drawer to store fried chicken.
Mark Cheevers, PR & Social Media Lead at KFC UK & Ireland, commented on the KFConsole announcement, saying: “We all know the console war is vicious, but we’re very confident in the KFConsole as our flagship entry. This machine is capable of running games at top-level specs, all on top of keeping your meal warm for you to enjoy during your gaming experience… what’s not to like? If Sony or Microsoft want any tips on how to engineer a chicken chamber for their efforts next time, they’d be welcome to get in touch.”
Meanwhile, Cooler Master is also pleased to be partnering on the project, with the company’s global PR manager, Stephen James, saying: “When we were approached by KFC Gaming to make the KFConsole, we jumped at the chance to get involved and enter the console war. The KFConsole has been custom built with the gamer at the front of mind. The last thing we want is anyone to go hungry while playing!”
There is no word on a launch date, or how much this thing will end up costing, but we should hear more in 2021.
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