Intel Ice Lake Laptop Chip Leak Hints at Big Graphics Bump

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Leaked SiSoftware Sandra benchmarks suggest that Intel’s upcoming Ice Lake-U CPUs will offer much better integrated graphics performance for laptops: Kaby Lake-U chips offered a 300 MHz base clock (and 1.1 GHz boost), but Ice Lake-U doubles that with a 600 MHz base clock. These will also support 6GB of shared memory and feature 768kB of L2 cache.

Will that be enough to help Intel stave off competition from AMD, which already offers a number of Ryzen Mobile processors with integrated Radeon Vega graphics? That remains to be seen. But Intel did recently hire AMD’s former GPU chief in order to beef up its own discrete graphics technology, so it looks like the company is looking to stay competitive in the GPU space.
 
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Another month, another Intel chip announcement, and probably another chipset, socket, and motherboard required.

Meanwhile, Raven Ridge aka Ryzen APU runs on the same AM4 socket and chipsets released a year ago.
 
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Great, my question is will this graphics chip be available on mid and low end SKUs? Or will it be just the Iris Pro where it's easier to buy a dedicated graphics and lower end cpu?
 
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No doubt it will be marketed as "We doubled the speed of the CPU!" when in fact the CPU cores will pretty much stay the same, at best they will get a +200 MHz bump and +5% IPC over Coffee Lake.

The good thing to come out of Intel's stagnation and Meltdown fiasco is that AMD will catch up very soon.
 
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Go AMD! It seems to me that Intel has been paper launching a lot over the last year or so with every release from AMD.
 
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