Intel Launches 10th Gen Comet Lake CPUs

Intel just announced 10th gen series of Comet Lake CPUs.Concern among blue team faithful is still the Two of the big announcements out of CES this year were both mobile related. Both Intel and AMD announced that they would launch laptop processors. These include Thin and Light, Gaming Laptops including Inte's H series processors. The CPUs are based on the Intel 14nm architecture. The flagship CPU i9-10980HK ++ which can Turbo boost up to whopping 5.3 GHz.

This CPU can hit the Turbo at a specific condition being that it needs secondary power limits and Thermal Velocity Boost turned on. This allows the CPU to jump from 5.1 GHz to 5.3 GHz.The base frequency of this Chip is 2.4 GHz, and it has a regular 45 W TDP (sustained power), which can be run in cTDP up mode for 65 W.

Intel 10th Gen Core Processors

Name                    Cores    Base    Freq1    Freq2    DDR4    TDP    cTDP

i9-10980HK ++    8 / 16     2.4  5.1          5.3       2933      45 W    65 W
i7-10875H           8 / 16     2.3    4.9          5.1       2933      45 W     -
i7-10850H +         6 / 12     2.7    4.9          5.1       2933      45 W     -
i7-10750H            6 / 12     2.6    4.8          5.0       2933      45 W     -
i5-10400H            4 / 8       2.6    4.6            -         2933      45 W     -
i5-10300H            4 / 8       2.5    4.5           -          2933      45 W     -

Intel also stated that there would be 30+ designs using the new 10th Gen for the thin and lights and 100+ designs in total across consumer, commercial and workstation. Intel was boasting the fact that they are the only ones who provide HDR1000 panels with 300Hz to OEMs.

One place where team blues CPU would squash the opponent is the single-threaded performance and primarily Gaming, but the fact that this CPU is not at all cheap and is way too costly for majority consumers when compared to the price to performance ratio this CPU falls behind which might make team Red favourable.

Intel did show a die shot of the silicon, with all of its eight cores. The Chip seems to be binned for those two cores to get that little more of performance. It looks strikingly similar to Previous Gen Processors design.

Team Red recently launched Ryzen Mobile 4000 processors, in devices like the ASUS Zephyrus G14 and the Dell G5 SE. These new APUs were launched on 1st April with an embargo. It'll be nice to see how these CPUs compare against the Team Red.


-Sudev Atgur