14 PCWorld MAY 2020NEWS
IMAGE: INTELIntel calls its 5.3GHz ‘Comet
Lake-H’ chip for gaming laptops
the ‘fastest mobile processor’
Intel’s new 10th-gen Core chips are the fastest ever, Intel claims, setting up a showdown
between the Comet Lake-H chips and AMD’s latest Ryzen 9 4900HS. BY MARK HACHMANI
ntel’s 10th-gen Comet Lake-H mobile
processors for gaming laptops aspire to
something that, so far, AMD’s Ryzen
hasn’t emphasized: pure clock speed.
Announced April 2, Intel’s 10th-gen H-series
chips go above 5GHz, a new frequency high
for mobile PC processors.
In fact, most of Intel’s six new 14-nm
Comet Lake-H-series chips top 5GHz,
including a “step up” Core i7 chip, the Corei7-10875H (2.3GHz base, 5.1GHz turbo).
Intel has designed it as a slightly cheaper
alternative to the new uber-premium Core
i9-10980HK, though both chips include 8
cores and 16 threads. It’s this new Core i9 that
sets a high-water mark for clock speed,
cresting at a whopping 5.3GHz.
All this potentially sets up a hot debate
among mobile gamers: buy in to Intel’s claims
that most games still are largely dependent