Intel Core "Ice Lake" official 10th generation: 10 nm arrives | video

Updated 30/05

We update the article with our video of Computex 2019 in Taipei.

Original article – 28/05

Processors Intel Core 10th generation "Ice Lake" at 10 nm they are officers of Computex 2019 in Taipei. Notebook solutions will come first, with TDPs of 9, 15 and 28 watts, with up to 4 cores and 8 threads and a clock speed of up to 4.1 GHz in Turbo mode Boost. According to Christmas, there will be at least 30 devices equipped with an Ice Lake processor on the market.

CPU side, I new Sunnycove cores does not increase much performance: instructions per cycle increase by 18%, but compared to Skylake cores from 4 years ago; and improving single-core benchmarks over Whiskey Lake chips is almost marginal.

GPU sidethe performance increases are much more tangible: the graphics chips have nearly doubled their performance compared to the previous generation, with a maximum power of 1.2 TFLOPS in FP32. the 1080p with average details and 30 FPS is an achievable goal with lots of video games, even recent, on chip with TDP of 15 W.

Doubling the encoding performance of H.265 HEVC films is also interesting; Intel also points to a 2.5-fold increase in AI performance. With the new (three) display tubes, Ice Lake supports monitors up to 5K at 60Hz or a 4K monitor at 120Hz and 10bit; also comes the built-in support for VESA Adaptive Sync, a standardized version of technologies for updating variables such as NVIDIA G-SYNC and AMD FreeSync.

The new Ice Lake chips will offer tracks Thunderbolt 3.0 and Wi-Fi 6 even though, in reality, manufacturers will still need to use some auxiliary modules and chips for inclusion in desktop and laptop motherboards. In any case, the novelty should allow to further extend the diffusion of both technologies and optimize their consumption.