The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
by Dr. Ian Cutress on August 1, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- GPUs
- 10nm
- Core
- Ice Lake
- Cannon Lake
- Sunny Cove
- 10th Gen Core
System Results (15W)
When testing a laptop system, there are various angles to consider on how to test: either user experience benchmarks, that are mostly single threaded and give a good boost to how systems implement a deal of turbo, or sustained benchmarks that test how the system performs when you push it. Intel has gone out of its way to emphasise the former for the next generation of mobile CPUs: they would prefer that reviewers stick to very user experience-like tests, rather than say, rendering programs. The problem there is that outside a number of canned benchmarks, it can be difficult. Users, and especially creators, that typically spend a lot on a premium device, might actually be doing sustained benchmarks.
Given the time that we had to test, we were actually limited in what we could arrange.
On AVX-512, the Ice Lake part destroys the competition.
These last two tests are typically our more memory sensitive tests, and the LPDDR4X-3733 really does win out over the LPDDR3-2133 in the other systems.
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Alistair - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
These comments are funny. The iGPU is not the CPU part I care about. I said "this is the smallest improvement in CPU ("CPU") performance that Intel has had for years in mobile" which is still true regardless of the GPU nobody needs.Phynaz - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
It only matches a 3900xAlistair - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Again, last year's 14nm chips matched the 3900x in SINGLE THREADED (not MT) performance, so if this one does too, how does that matter? Why try to talk about how great a new CPU is, when it is the smallest improvement we've seen in years?Alistair - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
10nm was an opportunity to see 6 cores, but we didn't get it this year. These new CPUs are not useful. Waiting for next year's Intel instead...Phynaz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
These are laptop chips, idiotKorguz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
and a laptop cant have more then 4 cores ?? let me guess phynaz, you still believe intels BS about 4 cores is all the mainstream needs ?? intels previous laptop cpus had more then 4 cores, IE 9850H for example with 6 cores.RSAUser - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
"matches". In single-threaded performance with fans at 100% in pretty much the most ideal circumstances it can ever reach. Cool.Phynaz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Intel’s laptop cpu keeping up with AMD top desktop offerings. You must be worried.Alistair - Saturday, August 3, 2019 - link
"Intel's laptop SINGLE CORE cpu performance is keeping up with Intel's desktop chips, you must be worried" you can't make up this kind of stupidity, and you call me an idiot.eva02langley - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Ahhhh man... this is barely better than the 3700u.