8 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020NEWS INTEL LAUNCHES TIGER LAKE CPU
Intel’s 11th-
gen Tiger Lake
processors for
thin-and-light
notebooks and
tablets. It looks
as if Intel may
differentiate
between the UP
and UP3 chips via
model number: A
final “0” for UP
tablet chips, and
a final “5” for
UP3 notebook
processors.including Acer, Asus, Dell, Dynabook, HP,
Lenovo, LG, MSI, Razer, Samsung, and others,
Intel says. Twenty will be “Intel Evo” notebooks
(go.pcworld.com/inev), the new name for
Intel’s ongoing Project Athena lineup of
collaboratively designed premium notebook
PCs. They’ll begin shipping in October (see
page 13).
Intel’s making ambitious performance
claims, including that Tiger Lake is 2.7 times
as fast as “competitive products” in video
editing, and that it can add an hour or so of
battery compared to Ice Lake. Keep in mind,
however, that the current landscape favors
AMD’s mobile Ryzen, especially notebook
processors like the 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen
Mobile 4800U (go.pcworld.com/480u) that
easily compete with Intel’s 10th-gen “IceLake” H-series processors for gaming laptops.
Intel hasn’t announced a gaming-class Tiger
Lake processor yet, though it’s made the case
that Tiger Lake enables thin-and-light gaming
performance (go.pcworld.com/101l) where
none existed before.TIGER LAKE LOOKS
SIGNIFICANTLY FASTER
Intel has talked at length about the architectural
details underlying Tiger Lake, but it’s said little
about the actual clock frequencies of the
chips themselves. Until recently, when Intel
unveiled them. The higher-power UP3 series of
chips (previously known as the “U” series
mobile CPUs for laptops) will include five chips
ranging from the dual-core, 3GHz Core
i3-1115G4 on up to the quad-core, 3GHz CoreProcessor number Intel Core i7-1160G7 Intel Core i5-1130G7 Intel Core i3-1120G4 Intel Core i3-1110G
Graphics Intel Iris X Intel Iris X Intel UHD Graphics Intel UHD Graphics
Cores/Threads 4/8 4/8 4/8 2/
Graphics (EUs) 96 80 48 48
Cache 12MB 8MB 8MB 6MB
Memory LPDDR4x-4266 LPDDR4x-4266 LPDDR4x-4266 LPDDR4x-
Operating range 7-15W 7-15W 7-15W 7-15W
Base Freq (GHz) 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.
MTurbo (GHz, up to)ax Single Core 4.4 4.0 3.5 3.
Max All Core Turbo
(GHz, up to) 3.6 3.4 3.0 3.
Graphics Max Freq
(GHz, up to) 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.
Intel DL Bost/Intel
GMA 2.0 Ye s Ye s Ye s Ye sUP