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15 watts and it still boosts to 4.1 ghz... honestly could be a game changer in high end gaming laptops, tiny heatsink on cpu, will allow for full fledged rtx 2080's non-max q design, because all the cooling can be diverted to the gpu.
15W and 4,1 GHz boost? :D Game changer in high end gaming laptops? :D Yet it heats to 100 degrees or can't boost to their given speed as there is only 15W TDP.
 
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Compared to an APU from 6 years ago ? That's not exactly ground breaking.
No, but keep in mind it wasn’t that long ago that mobile gaming was a painful experience unless you had a honking gaming laptop. And also consider that the A12X is a passively cooled chip in a device that is 1lb, as thick as a pencil, and gets around 10 hours of battery life. To me, that's saying something.

Besides, XboxOne provides and acceptable gaming experience for many people. Does it need to get even better? Sure, but we are headed that direction. Imagine an A12X with a higher TDP and active cooling. Or imagine a Ryzen APU with more memory channels/bandwidth. I think we aren’t that far off.
 
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No, but keep in mind it wasn’t that long ago that mobile gaming was a painful experience unless you had a honking gaming laptop. And also consider that the A12X is a passively cooled chip in a device that is 1lb, as thick as a pencil, and gets around 10 hours of battery life. To me, that's saying something.

Besides, XboxOne provides and acceptable gaming experience for many people. Does it need to get even better? Sure, but we are headed that direction. Imagine an A12X with a higher TDP and active cooling. Or imagine a Ryzen APU with more memory channels/bandwidth. I think we aren’t that far off.
Running at full power for 10H without throttling would be impressive. I presume that isn't the case here?
 
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18% more IPC when compared to prior models with all security fixes in place and HT disabled? Sure, I will buy that, right when I buy they 4.1Ghz is it's actual sped and not what one core will reach for a second during boot before it's heat limited and then never seen again.

Intel is in trouble, they know it and now sound like the vaporware of AMD bulldozer past.
 
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All this talk yet nobody said jack about the acutal usage of the chip which would be ultrabooks. You know those craptastic laptops everyone and their mother gets for every major business for their employees? Outside of this however I don't see anything else though, unless that 18% IPC uplift turns out to be ture but I wouldn't hold my breath.
 
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All this talk yet nobody said jack about the acutal usage of the chip which would be ultrabooks. You know those craptastic laptops everyone and their mother gets for every major business for their employees? Outside of this however I don't see anything else though, unless that 18% IPC uplift turns out to be ture but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Ultrabooks are fine for auditors and people who want to read an ebook, but so is mobile. It's essentially for devices that a pen and paper, and cell phone can replace, and seeing their adoption where I work it's left up to actual laptops or desktops to do the heavy lifting.

There will be a division in computing where cell phones are as fast and take over more, laptops and desktops will still win performance, and Ultrabooks will slow as people need more connectivity and power than they offer.
 
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Running at full power for 10H without throttling would be impressive. I presume that isn't the case here?
No, it isn't, but it's still an example of future potential. I'm not sure what a fully loaded iPad would do to battery life, but that's always been true. It's the better idle states and low-load power use that have given us the major gains in battery life.
 

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No, it isn't, but it's still an example of future potential. I'm not sure what a fully loaded iPad would do to battery life, but that's always been true. It's the better idle states and low-load power use that have given us the major gains in battery life.
Most of the time nowadays the battery is getting chewed up by the backlighting on the display, not by the SoC. Power and thermal management for CPUs and GPUs these days has gotten pretty good.
 
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18% for which we only have Intel's word. In which workload against what model was this 18% achieved?
Also minus god knows how much percent IPC loss due to security mitigations.

2400 to 3200 RAM does not help much. Especially on CPU limited scenarios. Helps more on the iGPU side.
which is where the focus should be
 
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18% for which we only have Intel's word. In which workload against what model was this 18% achieved?
Also minus god knows how much percent IPC loss due to security mitigations.
Averaged over a number of benchmarks:

Slides are covered in a bunch of places but Anandtech seems as good a source as any: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14436/intel-10th-gen-10nm-ice-lake-cpus
This is compared to Skylake, so security mitigations have minimal impact in this comparison. If any, security mitigations have heavier impact on Skylake and will widen the gap.
Iso-frequency. I wouldn't put it beyond Intel to test different core counts but from results it would be pretty impossible for that to be the case.
 
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Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have one thing in common; they usually pick a "best case scenario" when displaying their new tech, Nvidia cherry-picked games when showing off Turing, AMD did it with Radeon VII with very few games and now with Zen 2 with Cinebench and Blender. The benchmarks might not be fake, but they are usually a little on the optimistic side.

So when Intel claims an 18% "IPC" gain for Ice Lake (-U/-Y), I will take it with a grain of salt. But still, Sunny Cove is a major architectural overhaul, and even if the real gain is more like ~12-15%, it's still very good and would be comparable to Sandy Bridge -> Skylake.

But remember, this is just the low-power variant. I'm more interested to see the improvements for Ice Lake-SP, which have a different cache configuration, memory controller and various core features.
 
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Intel, AMD, and Nvidia have one thing in common; they usually pick a "best case scenario" when displaying their new tech, Nvidia cherry-picked games when showing off Turing, AMD did it with Radeon VII with very few games and now with Zen 2 with Cinebench and Blender. The benchmarks might not be fake, but they are usually a little on the optimistic side.

So when Intel claims an 18% "IPC" gain for Ice Lake (-U/-Y), I will take it with a grain of salt. But still, Sunny Cove is a major architectural overhaul, and even if the real gain is more like ~12-15%, it's still very good and would be comparable to Sandy Bridge -> Skylake.

But remember, this is just the low-power variant. I'm more interested to see the improvements for Ice Lake-SP, which have a different cache configuration, memory controller and various core features.
Apparently when Intel introduced Ice Lake graphics, they showed it could keep up with or beat the Ryzen IGPs. In the fine print, the Intel machine had like 40%+ more memory bandwidth!
 
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In this case, based on data we have been presented - Ice Lake's +18% on average seems to be based on broader set of benchmarks compared to Zen2's +15% in Cinebench R20.
 
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In this case, based on data we have been presented - Ice Lake's +18% on average seems to be based on broader set of benchmarks compared to Zen2's +15% in Cinebench R20.

Yes, they were lying. We all know that. Cherry pick enough useless things while crippling the other system = bigger numbers.
 
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All companies cherry pick numbers. According to PCWorld's Mark Hachman you take that 18% IPC over Skylake, factor in the lower boost clocks over Whiskey Lake and you end up with a modest perf increase (I think he said 2-3% or 3-4%?) over Whiskey Lake.

Anyway, I'm very much looking forward to all the reviews on these new CPUs. So many questions.
 
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They haven't actually disclosed which models boost to 4.1 Ghz, because they've listed 3 TDP numbers 9/15/28W which could be significant.
Also 8665u already boosts to 4.8Ghz so this is a slight downgrade for single core boost.
8665U has weaker 24 IEU IGP.
 
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In this case, based on data we have been presented - Ice Lake's +18% on average seems to be based on broader set of benchmarks compared to Zen2's +15% in Cinebench R20.

In the performance benchmark Intel has them running on different windows build

For ICL
Intel said:
OS: Windows* 10 RS5-17763.316

For WHL
Intel said:
OS: Windows* 10 RS4-17134.112.

On the gaming its vs a actual product (HP spectre x360 13t 13-ap0038nr). Should have use the same restrictions for both.

Its also interesting that on the game test Intel decided to use the same windows build for comparison but not for the performance test.

Intel said:
1920×1080 – Fullscreen, V-Sync: off, Low Quality Preset, Resolution scaling: 100%
Microsoft Windows 10 RS5 Build 475

Inconsistent to say the least. ICL pre-production test bench vs a final product in one test then a pre-production in another and they throw in the mixing of OS builds. All while not even mentioning ICL clocks.
 
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