18 PCWorld MAY 2020NEWS INTEL’S 5.3GHZ COMET LAKE-H CHIP
(measured in SysMark 2018) than a three-year-
old PC powered by a Core i7-7820HK. It’s
twice as fast in Blender video rendering, using
the same two systems. Intel claims that the
overall performance of the Core i7-10750H is
33 percent faster (in SysMark) than a three-
year-old PC powered by a Core i7-7700HQ,
44 percent faster in gaming (Assassin’s Creed:
Odyssey), and 70 percent faster in exporting a
4K video file in Power Director 4K. (Intel’s
Core i9-10980K system was accompanied by
an Nvidia RTX Super GPU, while the Core
i7-7800HQ system was powered by an
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080.)
Intel’s gen-over-gen gaming tests provide
a bit more clarity. Here, the Intel Core i7 iscompared against the older 7th-gen Core
i7-7700HQ, with significant increases in terms
of gaming performance: from 31 percent in
World of Tanks to 44 percent in Assassin’s
Creed Odyssey.
Intel also compared the Core
i9-10980HK to the Core i7-7820HK,
generating performance increases of
between 23 percent and 54 percent in
games, with the most gains coming in Red
Dead Redemption 2. However, Intel didn’t
manufacture a mobile 7th-gen Core i9,
skewing the comparison.
Hamberger said he expects “double-
digit” performance improvements up and
down the new Comet Lake-H chips over theIntel doesn’t show its cards with regards to performance, but this is one of the better comparisons
between Comet Lake-H and its predecessors.