Monday, July 29th 2019
Intel Starts Shipping 10 nm Ice Lake CPUs to OEMs
During its second quarter earnings call, Intel announced that it has started shipping of 10th generation "Core" CPUs to OEMs. Making use of 10 nm lithography, the 10th generation of "Core" CPUs, codenamed Ice Lake, were qualified by OEMs earlier in 2019 in order to be integrated into future products. Ice Lake is on track for holiday season 2019, meaning that we can expect products on-shelves by the end of this year. That is exciting news as the 10th generation of Core CPUs is bringing some exciting micro-architectural improvements along with the long awaited and delayed Intel's 10nm manufacturing process node.
The new CPUs are supposed to get around 18% IPC improvement on average when looking at direct comparison to previous generation of Intel CPUs, while being clocked at same frequency. This time, even regular mobile/desktop parts will get AVX512 support, alongside VNNI and Cryptography ISA extensions that are supposed to bring additional security and performance for the ever increasing number of tasks, especially new ones like Neural Network processing. Core configurations will be ranging from dual core i3 to quad core i7, where we will see total of 11 models available.
Additionally, the integrated graphics will get some upgrades as well. Intel's Gen11 GPU architecture, as it is called, will be incorporated inside Ice Lake boosting performance and efficiency of the GPU. Intel claims that the new GPU will break 1 TeraFLOP of FP32 compute performance with its 64 Execution Units. Furthermore, new iGPU will feature native support for DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b and HDCP 2.2.
The platform for 10th generation Core CPUs is getting improvements as well. There will be an integrated Thunderbolt 3 controller built into chipset, WiFi 6, DDR4 with up to 3733 MHz support and more.
Source:
AnandTech
The new CPUs are supposed to get around 18% IPC improvement on average when looking at direct comparison to previous generation of Intel CPUs, while being clocked at same frequency. This time, even regular mobile/desktop parts will get AVX512 support, alongside VNNI and Cryptography ISA extensions that are supposed to bring additional security and performance for the ever increasing number of tasks, especially new ones like Neural Network processing. Core configurations will be ranging from dual core i3 to quad core i7, where we will see total of 11 models available.
The platform for 10th generation Core CPUs is getting improvements as well. There will be an integrated Thunderbolt 3 controller built into chipset, WiFi 6, DDR4 with up to 3733 MHz support and more.
78 Comments on Intel Starts Shipping 10 nm Ice Lake CPUs to OEMs
edit: this is for laptops only I think... so disregard the above... my bad.
Desktop CPUs based on that arch are coming next year.
And there were rumors that next gen will have lower clocks and/or lower OC potential. But take that with a grain of salt.
(well, unless you're into ultra-expensive ultra-weak ultrabooks, in that case they might be interesting ... a bit)
They only go into those ridiculously thin unibody 12" laptops and convertibles that you can use as an axe when attached to a handle.
None of those computers have a dGPU, as it's impossible to cool it.
Basically, this is competition for ARM and future ARM-based Apple Macbooks. Nothing more, nothing less !
Not a competition for AMD, not a competition even for Intel Coffee-Lake mobile, aka 8750H and up.
ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/191045/intel-core-i7-9750h-processor-12m-cache-up-to-4-50-ghz.html
Proper 6-core gaming laptop chip, just launched last quarter !
Ice lake won't replace this one at least until next year... assuming they manage to get it working beyond the puny 4.1 ghz boost...
the winner will be the consumer who will have a lot of computing power at lower prices than a few years ago...
And again this site writes another forecast of Intel's Ice Lake desktop processors, even though we haven't seen single confirmation of them from Intel, and leaked roadmaps show no 10 nm parts for a long time. 14nm +++ Comet Lake, coming in early 2020, and 14 nm (but with possible non-Skylake architecture) Rocket Lake after that...
Guess what - people DO NOT walk around with gaming laptops, those are niche.
...or do I really need to ask the question :rolleyes:
IMO this new CPU's are more threat to nVidia then AMD, because it will make Nvidia MX130/150/230/250 GPU's irrelevant, and when Intel will upgrade the iGPU even farther -only nVidia will suffer.
New AMD APU's and Intel 10nm CPU's with improved iGPU will start to push out nVidai from notebook segment.
Anyway, if the selling point is improved AI performance (?!?), and being able to run Fortnite, you can safely ignore the release :D
It's clear they don't want to lose the laptop and server markets. They have already lost desktop.
Also Intel's numbers lately are questionable at best. For example, they where comparing their new integrated graphics a few weeks ago, with their reference laptop running dual channel DDR4 ot over 3700MHz, while the Ryzen and older Intel laptops where using single channel DDR4, at a frequency lower than 2800MHz.
I think ppl jump to drastic conclusions too soon. Meanwhile 9700k sold out in my country a week ago....
9700k selling like hot cakes is not an anomaly. A lot of ppl waited for zen2 reviews to see gaming performance on esports titles (the most played games). And they run to the store buying 9700k. R5 3600 and 9700k best selling CPUs right now here. Is not an anomaly. Is normal and easy to understand why.
R5 3600 best value chip
9700k, the no compromises chip
9700k even got up on Amazon best selling CPUs and is at number 3 now, something ot never achieved before. But you will probably say that Amazon ranks are "flawed" I guess.
I fail to see how 9700K is better for esports than say 3600. Watching and reading benchmarks it seems that if Intel can get 144fps+ or 240fps+ so can AMD and if Intel does not neither does AMD. They are really close in performance. The biggest outlier seems to be Starcraft II. In CS:GO AMD is ahead actually.
3900X is also outsold on most places. I mostly see 3600X, 3700X and 3800X being in stock. And most Intel CPU's too.
Learn context... also, welcome to my ignore list, you annoy me.