The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
by Dr. Ian Cutress on August 1, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- GPUs
- 10nm
- Core
- Ice Lake
- Cannon Lake
- Sunny Cove
- 10th Gen Core
Synthetic and Legacy Results (15W)
The realm of synthetic testing is a tricky one, given that there are plenty of benchmarks in the wild that provide a number, but aren’t actually based on real workloads, or are very limited in what they actually test. The issue here is that this software tries to emulate real-world, but it isn’t immersed in the harnesses or matrix of what a user might actually experience. For that reason, we only tend to use these benchmarks based on reader requests.
Legacy benchmarks are included for similar reasons, but can help to get a historical perspective.
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HStewart - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Keep in mind AMD 7nm die does not mean higher transistors than Intel 10nm Because under different process companies. Lower number does not always mean betterzodiacfml - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
I'm saying that Intel's die/wafer is probably larger than AMD's 7nm die considering the decent IGP that comes with the Intel chip. I realized my comment is pointless though considering AMD has not released a 7nm APU yet for a proper comparison.Phynaz - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Yawn, another AMD troll that doesn’t know what a laptop is.Tyler_Durden_83 - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
My God these new ICL parts are, considering the wait, even more yawn than the 2080 super was...shabby - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
I think it would be smart to wait for retail laptops to hit the market before drawing a conclusion on ice lake, who knows what tweaks this ringer laptop from intel has.GreenReaper - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Having the fan running on full all the time is kinda cheating to start with. You wouldn't actually want that as a laptop experience. However, the laptops were actually designed for OS testing (where you typically want to avoid throttling to have clean data) so I can cut them a bit of slack there.masimilianzo - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
I am sorry it was not clear to me if the 3.9GHz turbo frequency was kept for all the duration of the Spec2k6/2k17 benchmark runs.prophet001 - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Any idea on when desktop SKUs will be coming?Eris_Floralia - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
If you are talking about traditional socketed DT parts, the answer is never.DanNeely - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
There aren't any 10nm desktop parts on leaked roadmaps out to 2021.If you trust the leaks from Semi-Accurate there probably never will. Of the 4 planned 10nm fabs one was upgraded to 14nm (from an even older process); one or two others are getting 7nm tooling. That leaves 10nm capacity at 25-50% of originally planned numbers meaning they're never going to make 10nm in high volume which in turn means that large chunks of the market will probably go directly to 7 in a few years after lingering at 14.