Friday, March 27th 2020
Intel Core i9-10980HK Detailed: 8-core Mobile Monstrosity that Boosts up to 5.30 GHz
In no mood to cede mobile performance leadership to AMD and its Ryzen 9 4900HS processor, Intel is readying its new flagship mobile part, the Core i9-10980HK. Based on the 14 nm "Comet Lake-H" silicon, this chip packs an 8-core/16-thread CPU with a maximum boost speed (aka "Thermal Velocity Boost") of 5.30 GHz, while maintaining an aggressive power target of 45 W TDP. This should put the chip's performance somewhere between the desktop Core i7-9700K and the Core i9-9900K, both of which have TDP rated at 95 W, although the chip could perform very close to the latter at gaming, thanks to its 300 MHz higher boost frequency. Intel is expected to launch the 10th generation Core i9 H-series processors on April 2nd, around the same time when NVIDIA launches its mobile GeForce RTX 20 Super series.
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99 Comments on Intel Core i9-10980HK Detailed: 8-core Mobile Monstrosity that Boosts up to 5.30 GHz
Same CPUs can have very different results.
And let's not get started on benchmark procedures or whether Userbenchmark is a good choice for evaluating performance.
Intel is throwing up big numbers on the spec sheet but their processors are now more thermally constrained than AMD. I doubt this 10980HK is going to be able to deliver consistent performance at all.
Long, continuous tasks will obviously take longer and you'd get less fps in games, but many would be surprised by how small the gap is.
Also, the fastest Ryzen is Ryzen 9 4900HS.
You should compare Core i9-10980HK with Ryzen 9 4900HS.
A mobile CPU, 5.3 Ghz ?
The 1st of April is still a couple of days away.
So in that case, you are within the power enveloppe and you can boost. AMD does the same thing. Consoles now do the same thing.
answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Issues/i7-9700k-100-CPU-usage/td-p/8346751
linustechtips.com/main/topic/1125908-100-cpu-usage-in-games-9700k/
forums.tomshardware.com/threads/i7-9700k-at-100-cpu-usage-in-games.3539442/
5.3Ghz on a laptop and desktops have problems with sustaining 5.2 Ghz. Boost is relative to what it is in reality. When I see it, with full specs and information, I can say 'great'.
As someone mentioned, 4800H is not the top model so there.
One of these things would have to be miracle class silicon, look on silicon lottery and tell me how many 5.3 ghz 9900KS you find. Or how many 5.3 ghz CPUs you find in general. I can't even imagine how many wafers they'd have to scour in order to find one these that fit the power envelope and can do 5.3 ghz.
It's ridiculous, it's not even funny at this point. It's one last (hopefully) desperate yell for attention from Intel on their ever increasingly uninteresting products.
They even link to one of the videos calling them out on being biased on their about page, which is a head-scratching move to say the least: www.userbenchmark.com/page/about
On a less ironic note, you do realize that whether it's 1 or 8 cores, something like 5.3 Ghz is still an extreme clock speed which requires extreme silicon quality.
As I pointed out this is also supposed to be a mobile chip, that makes it even harder to find a piece of silicon that can do all of this, at least a 9900KS isn't power constrained. This is, a lot, you can't just have a CPU with let's say a 45W power limit and have one core hit 5.3 Ghz using probably at least 15-20W alone, this thing is beyond ridiculous. This is supposed to be unlocked but I can't imagine how one could make a laptop supporting these sort of thermals.
Calling this a proper competing product it's going to be a stretch.