Intel has a strong commitment to the laptop market, as that is where the buyers of new PCs are basically found. This is why they are betting with his Tiger Lake-H, a version with more cores of his Tiger Lake designed for the passionate market, both gaming and professional.
Intel claims to have put its Tiger Lake-H processor in 80 different laptop models for this year and to have a production much higher than that of its rival AMD. But what secrets is Tiger Lake-H hiding?
Willow Cove. the heart of Tiger Lake-H
Willow cove This is a slightly improved version of the Sunny Cove core used in Intel Ice Lake that was built under the 10nm Intel SuperFin node. Thanks to this and according to Intel, the Tiger Lake-H becomes the processor for laptops with the highest performance in a single thread and that provides a 19% improvement in multithreading compared to Intel Core Gen 10 laptop processors.
Willow Cove also incorporates AVX-512 units inside, with the same instruction sets also included in Rocket Lake-S and therefore with improvements in areas such as cryptography and artificial intelligence in applications optimized for AVX-512.
Intel Tiger Lake-H, designed for overclocking
Tiger Lake-H is an Intel processor created for gaming laptopsThis is notable for its improvements for overclocking, where manual control of the voltage core by core is now possible, in addition to having better features. XTU
In case the cores for single-threaded tasks need to be sped up, the Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 it identifies cores that can reach higher speeds and uses them to speed up those tasks.
New form factors for Tiger Lake-H
The big novelty of the new Tiger Lake-H is the launch of Processors with 35W TDP, allowing thinner and lighter laptops, but without sacrificing performance for gaming. How well? Well, Intel tells us about laptops less than 20mm thick without sacrificing power for the game.
Just as the 35W TDP is designed to make thinner gaming PCs, it also serves to provide additional power to other things that need it, such as the GPU, which in a gaming laptop. is still limited by this aspect.
I / O and Tiger Lake-H
We might come to think that with a thinner form factor power has been sacrificed, but that’s not the case. Since Intel equipped the Tiger Lake-H with 44 PCI Express lanes, 20 of which are fourth generation, allowing manufacturers and notebook builders to add a dedicated gaming GPU, whether it’s an NVIDIA RTX, AMD RX 6000, or Intel’s upcoming Intel Xe-HPG. The other 24 are PCI Express 3.0.
But not only laptops live on PCI Express, being another of the improvements that have incorporated its new WiFi module, called Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E, radio-based AX1675. Who is backward compatible with the standards IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) and 802.11ac (Wi-Fi 5) thanks to the ability to operate at 5 GHz. In a 6E Wi-Fi network, the new Intel radio switches the network to 6 GHz but it is still based on the 802.11ax protocol but with the improvements it brings to operate at 6 GHz, among others the power overcome the gigabit per second barrier via WiFi.
Another of the improvements that Intel has incorporated is support for Thunderbolt 4 integrated in the processor as standard. That uses USB-C connectors, but with bandwidth up to 40 Gbit / s, twice that of conventional USB 3.2.
What is the performance of these processors?
According to data from Intel itself and after comparing a Intel Core i9-11980HK with its direct predecessor, the i9-10980HK, on a PC with the same with the same GPU, we can see an increase in performance between 5% obtained in Far Cry New Dawn and 21% in War Thunder. The GPU used for the test is a NVIDIA RTX 3080 Mobile and the TDP system are the same in both cases, 155 W.
Intel doesn’t just compare itself to itself. The direct rival of these Tiger Lake-H son Los SoC AMD Ryzen 5000. This is why they compared their Intel Core i9-11980HK frente al AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS. Both are the two most powerful gaming processors that we know will be releasing this year for laptops.
The differences? The lesser in the Total War: Three Kingdoms where the Intel processor takes on average 11% of performance, the most exaggerated is that of Grid 2019 with a difference of 26%
But where Intel takes its pride the most is with its Intel Core i5-11400, whose performance is close to that of the Ryzen 9 5900HS. In some cases it is 3 points lower and in others it can reach 12 more points. All this using an RTX 3060 in both PCs, but with 80 W of consumption in the PC with AMD processor and 65 W in the case of the Intel laptop and with a thickness less than 20 mm.
Intel Tiger Lake-H processors
Intel is launching a total of 6 different models within the Tiger Lake-H range. Which go in 6 and 8 core configurations. All support DDR4 up to 3200 MHz, a TDP of 35 W and with an integrated Intel Xe 32 UE processor.
Beyond the gaming market
The other novelty presented by Intel is its Tiger Lake-H processors intended for the commercial market. We also have six models in total, where the model that stands out the most is the Intel Xeon WW-11955M, which supports ECC memory.
The differences with the game versions? Out-of-the-box support for technologies such as Intel SIPP, Intel VPro, and Intel TXT. What are the key technologies to use in corporate and enterprise environments. Virtualization technologies are one of its main advantages and have no equivalent in AMD, which is why Intel is once again securing its dominance in the enterprise market.
In terms of performance, Intel claims an improvement ranging from 24% to 75% compared to the company’s former enterprise processors. Specifically in the comparison between the i9-11950H and the i7-9850H. Intel is therefore looking not only to consolidate its leadership in gaming laptops, but also in those that professionals of all types use to work.
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