Intel 7nm ambitions are...lofty

[IdiotInCharge]

Intel - 3.5% performance uplift, 1w lower power...

KNOCKOUT!!!

It's more than 1w- but even with a 1w improvment, when you're at a 15w envelope, that's still quite a bit. With ultrabooks that's adding an hour or more of cordless time.

 

[Nightfire]

It's trading blows at 15w with 25w Whiskey Lake- that's a massive improvement.

That's not correct:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-10nm/6

Winrar is about the only test that saw any real performance over 15w WKL (whiskey lake, just go with it). So better compression. Where Intel could have used improvements was decompression.

 

[IdiotInCharge]

That's not correct:
https://www.anandtech.com/show/14664/testing-intel-ice-lake-10nm/6

Winrar is about the only test that saw any real performance over 15w WKL (whiskey lake, just go with it). So better compression. Where Intel could have used improvements was decompression.

That's only one page of several

 

[Nightfire]

The only other non-gaming 15w comparison page is the synthetic one. The yeah, winning in Geekbench.

 

[IdiotInCharge]

The only other non-gaming 15w comparison page is the synthetic one. The yeah, winning in Geekbench.

It's a limited slice of benchmarks- there's no getting around that. The news is that this is what we're seeing from an ultrabook part. Yeah, that assumes that it could scale the same way that Skylake has, and yeah, we don't have evidence one way or the other that Ice Lake can scale like Skylake, but what we do have is quite promising.