OCTOBER 2020 PCWorld 7News
TECH NEWS AND TRENDS THAT WILL
AFFECT YOU TODAY AND BEYOND.Intel launches 11th-gen Tiger Lake
CPUs, with blazing-fast clock speeds
But can they topple AMD’s Ryzen Mobile parts? BY MARK HACHMANI
ntel promised ”dramatic” clock-speed
increases (go.pcworld.com/prom) in its
11th-gen “Tiger Lake” Intel Core CPU. It
delivered.
In August, Intel surprised us by promising
that its new SuperFIN transistor would push
Tiger Lake to a greater-than-generational
improvement in CPU performance. While that
claim will have to wait for actual testing, the
numbers help bolster its case: The base clockspeed of the top four-core, eight-thread Core
i7-1185G7 reaches 3GHz—far above that of
Intel’s flagship 10th-gen Ice Lake chips (go.
pcworld.com/101l)—with single-core turbo
speeds hitting 4.8GHz.
All told, Intel is launching nine new Tiger Lake
processors for notebooks, five of which include
the new Xe integrated graphics core. More than
150 designs based on the new 11th-gen Intel
Core processors are expected from partnersIMAGE: INTEL