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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Rookierookie - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Other reports have indicated that Ice Lake graphics actually beats Vega, so...psychobriggsy - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Except you've been able to get Zen APUs for a long time, and this isn't out yet. For all we know, Zen 2 APU will arrive in a similar timeframe. But it is good that it is competitive.Phynaz - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
AMD laptop parts have always been garbageFulljack - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
they're now in the same ballpark with integrated vega graphics.still, looking at oem, they'll probably add mx250 or gtx 1650 max-q.
StormyParis - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
They'll be, in 6 months, assuming this demo unit can be produced at scale, priced competitively, and AMD doesn' t improve in the mean time.I understand why Anand did this review, and I enjoyed it, but it is really about Intel making vague promises in the hope we don't all buy AMD stuff for our 2-3-4-5 yearly upgrade in the next 6 months. And then we'll do it anyway ;-p
Fulljack - Sunday, August 4, 2019 - link
sadly, oem doesn't push amd based laptop as much as intel based laptop.just recently we've got ryzen 3000 (zen+) laptop, despite it's released early this year. it only improve performance over previous generation by ~10%, but it greatly improves battery life though.
GNUminex_l_cowsay - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
For once the Civ VI graphics benchmark actually tells us something useful; but would it kill you guys give turn time numbers?Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Didn't have time, we're we're running to the edge with the game numbers.zealvix - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Any news/dates for the desktop releases?And graphics seem only abit better than the iris plus 655 in my NUC, but a large part of that is from the increased bandwidth as well.
Any news of a 2 tflop or at least 1.7+ tflop variant of the graphics to match the best from ryzen mobile?
psychobriggsy - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
That would require Intel to design a SKU with 96EUs at least.That doesn't exist, and likely won't on 14/10nm.
AMD is likely months away from 7nm Zen 2 APU with over 2 TFLOPS, assuming memory bandwidth to feed it (I truly hope they have LPDDR4X support for their mobile APUs).