Macworld - USA (2019-10-B)

OCTOBER 2019 MACWORLD 15

files and encoding video to certain formats

should be a lot speedier.

GPU: GAME-CHANGING

PERFORMANCE

On the graphics side, Intel’s 10th-generation

processors deliver incredible gains. In

several synthetic benchmark tests, the new

Ice Lake chips delivered around double

the performance of the Whiskey Lake

generation, and even managed to get close

to ultra-low-power GeForce MX 510 running

at a 10-watt configuration.

Real-world game tests using World of

Tanks Encore and Counter-Strike: GO

don’t show quite that same performance

gap, but the new chips still deliver a

tasks that cause the processor to settle in
at a lower clock speed?
In PCWorld’s tests, the new 10th-
generation processors perform just a few
percent faster in many tasks, but short
bursty synthetic tests like Geekbench
show about 10 percent better single-core
performance and 20 percent better multi-
core performance. Some areas stand out,
however. Quick Sync video compression is
more than 30 percent faster, as is AES
encryption and other tests optimized for
very wide vector operations.
If Apple puts these chips in a MacBook,
we expect most day-to-day tasks to feel
about the same as the current generation,
but compressing or decompressing large

Synthetic graphics benchmarks are around twice as fast with 10th-generation chips.

0 3,000 6,000 9,000 12,

SDS Core i7-1065G7 10th Gen Ice Lake

U 25 Watt (4/8)

HP Spectre x360 13 8th Gen Core i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)

SDS Core i7-1065G7 10th Gen Ice Lake U 15 Watt (4/8)

Dell XPS 13 9380 8th Gen Core i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)

3DMARK SKY DIVER GRAPHICS 1.0 PERFORMANCE

(GPU Score)

9,

4,

9,

4,

Higher scores are better

Huawei Matebook 13 Core i7-8560U/GeForce MX150 25-Watt 1D12 8,

Huawei Matebook X Pro Core 17-8560U/GeForce MX150 10-Watt 1D10 12,

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