Macworld - USA (2019-10-B)

16 MACWORLD OCTOBER 2019

MACUSER INTEL’S ICE LAKE CHIPS AND THE MACBOOK

greater than 50 percent boost in real-
world graphics performance.
Mac laptops aren’t exactly gaming
machines (at least, not without hooking
up an external GPU), but some light
gaming is possible and that should be a
lot more enjoyable with the new
10th-generation Intel CPUs. Graphics
acceleration is important in many
applications beyond gaming, and those
might feel a lot smoother.

WI-FI 6 AND BETTER
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All of the new Ice Lake processors
include Wi-Fi 6 support (go.macworld.
com/wif6). That’s the Gig+ speed standard
formally known as 802.11ax, for which

Even real-world games see a huge performance boost.

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SDS Core i7-1065G7 10th Gen Ice Lake

U 25 Watt (4/8)

Dell XPS 13 9380 8th Gen Core

i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)

HP Spectre x360 13 8th Gen Core

i7-8565U Whisky Lake U (4/8)

Huawei Matebook X Pro Core

17-8560U/GeForce MX150 10-Watt 1D

COUNTER STRIKE: GO FPS BENCHMARK 720P

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37

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86

Higher scores are better

Huawei Matebook X Core 17-8565U/

GeForce MX150 25-Watt 1D10^108

home routers are just now trickling out. If

Apple doesn’t supplant Intel’s own Wi-Fi

hardware with a chip with a separate

networking chip, we can expect high-

Intel’s Ice lake chips support Wi-Fi 6.