PC World - USA (2020-05)

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in-system temperature sensors, pushing the
speeds up higher until they reach unsafe or
uncomfortable levels. In the case of the Core
i9-10980HK, that equates to 5.3GHz up to
65 degrees Celsius, 5.2GHz at 85 degrees
Celsius, and 5.1GHz at 100 degrees Celsius,
Intel executives said.
Intel’s TVB works with Speed Optimizer, a
one-click overclocking feature built into Intel’s
Extreme Tuning Utility. The related Intel Turbo
Boost Max Technology 3.0 also identifies the two
fastest-performing cores on the chip and pushes
lightly-threaded apps like games to them.
Another generational improvement is the
memory. While the 9th-gen mobile Core
chips used DDR4-2666 memory, the Comet
Lake-H series bumps that to DDR4-2933.

HOW FAST IS INTEL’S

COMET LAKE-H, EXACTLY?

So we know how fast these chips are, in terms

of clock speed. But exactly how much

performance are they expected to deliver?

Recall Intel’s newfound love of real-world

benchmarks (go.pcworld.com/rwbn): great

for indicating what sort of performance you’ll

expect running real-world applications, but

lousy for comparing Intel’s offerings against

the competition. PCWorld asked Intel for

Cinebench numbers to provide more context,

and was politely refused. So we have to use

what Intel provided us, in terms of

comparisons against its own chips.

Intel claims that its new Core i9 is 44

percent faster in overall performance

Intel’s Comet Lake-H chips should appear in a variety of devices and form factors.