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
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When testing a laptop system, there are various angles to consider on how to test: either user experience benchmarks, that are mostly single threaded and give a good boost to how systems implement a deal of turbo, or sustained benchmarks that test how the system performs when you push it. Intel has gone out of its way to emphasise the former for the next generation of mobile CPUs: they would prefer that reviewers stick to very user experience-like tests, rather than say, rendering programs. The problem there is that outside a number of canned benchmarks, it can be difficult. Users, and especially creators, that typically spend a lot on a premium device, might actually be doing sustained benchmarks.
Given the time that we had to test, we were actually limited in what we could arrange.
On AVX-512, the Ice Lake part destroys the competition.
These last two tests are typically our more memory sensitive tests, and the LPDDR4X-3733 really does win out over the LPDDR3-2133 in the other systems.
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Phynaz - Saturday, August 3, 2019 - link
And it’s “than” not “then”. Perhaps your lack of grammar is part of your problem.Korguz - Saturday, August 3, 2019 - link
um ya ok sure.. anything you say...HStewart - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
Is useless to argue with AMD fans - they first state that 10nm is old fashion and that claims of 30% is based on 2015 Sky Lake cpus and when they find out it based on 8th generation they don't believe and then state G{U is not good enough. And that AVX 512 does not matter, bug Siggraph 2019 is going to change that.But people forget about the past, yes AMD did it 64 bit back in the older days when nobody care much about greater than 4G memory. They build memory management and we had the frequency wars with Pentium 4 days - but Intel came back with I Series and change ever. Past is be repeated again. But this time is the core wars but Ice Lake is beginning of iSeries like in those days.
Please keep in mind this is only the low power cpus that Intel has release - it only the top of iceburg.
HStewart - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
"G{U is not good enough. And that AVX 512 does not matter, bug Siggraph 2019"I wish we could edit, I am older so my eyes are not as good
"GPU is not good enough. And that AVX 512 does not matter, but SigGraph 2019"
Korguz - Thursday, August 1, 2019 - link
and its just a useless to argue with intel fans, right HStewart ?? you know 1st hand about that, as you are well known now to praise intel any chance you get, and seemingly forget the negative things intel has one over the years, especially the ones that cost intel a few billion dollars...HStewart - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Lets just keep Intel articles to Intel only and AMD articles to AMD only - not of this fan boy BS, I support Intel primary because the AMD fans are so rude to Intel supports and I will never support them because of that. I do change, I use to support only Apple and hated Android - but I change on that one primary because I saw that Apple was not changing it UI and that they require developer tools on Mac's. I not actually Intel fan, Intel user and Intel developer - that is different. I have 30 years development experience.jospoortvliet - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
You know, nobody cares about your ‘support’. If you mean your support to help intel - it merely serves to make it look pathetic. If you have nothing intelligent to offer besides your ‘support’, whichever brand or product it is to benefit, you better just stay out of the conversation as that would improve its average quality substantially.I’m sure there are sites where comments from brand- supporting fans are appreciated. I sure as hell don’t read the comments here for that reason but to get insights and your comments just serve to make that harder as i need to weed through countless pointless conversations which involve you ‘supporting’ intel by lowering the collective intelligence of all readers here. Do everyone a favor and leave.
Korguz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
your are hilarious HStewart, maybe you should take your OWN advice for once.. oh wait.. you CAN'T cause you cant deal with the fact that intel isnt doing as good as it was before zen came out. when you stop with the intel fanboy BS, then maybe the rest of us will as well. no, you support intel cause you are a fanatic when it comes to them. " I not actually Intel fan " BS complete BS, and you have proved over AND over again, you are an intel fan.30 years of experience ?? BS, you dont know the DIFFERENCE between WATTS and VOLTS, and you KEEP spelling architeCture WRONG
Qasar - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
" they first state that 10nm is old fashion and that claims of 30% is based on 2015 Sky Lake cpus and when they find out it based on 8th generation they don't believe " who is they ?? to be fair HStewart, most of intels iGP, were best suited for any thing that isnt games that arent played on facebook, or games that are a few years old, and office work. but looks like intel is trying to improve that :-)" yes AMD did it 64 bit back in the older days when nobody care much about greater than 4G memory " i can remember a few people wanting to be able to use more then 4 gigs of ram in their comps, with out having to go to server platforms, i was one of them, and a few of my friends did too.
" Please keep in mind this is only the low power cpus that Intel has release " from what i have read, seems like this is all intel can do with their current 10nm process right now, looks like intel, like with the desktop, thinks quad cores are " good enough ", cause if it isnt, why are these only quad core ? why not up the ante to 6 cores ? i guess, like the desk top, we have to wait to see if amd will do this...
RSAUser - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
AVX512 really doesn't matter as I would find it strange for people to run such workloads on their laptops rather than on dedicated machines with way more processing power.For the common man, AVX512 does nothing though, but we can argue that most of the performance improvements don't really matter, I'm still using a device 5 years old with an i7 4720HQ and I feel no need to upgrade, only thing I am let down by is the graphics card (960M).
Intel will have a hard time convincing people to upgrade for this stuff before their machines basically keel over.