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Since I'm not a gamer or CPU-news-watcher, would anyone be able to put this in context? Is this: -- a major improvement in power efficiency, heat? -- major g
by supernova87a 6y ago
Since I'm not a gamer or CPU-news-watcher, would anyone be able to put this in context?
Is this:
-- a major improvement in power efficiency, heat?
-- major gain in speed (and who is the consumer concerned with this)
Seems like everyone is more concerned with GPU capability as the bottleneck for whatever application these days.
- bserge 6y ago> power efficiency A bit, yeah > heat just enough to make a laptop 0.5mm thinner in order to have it PROCHOT throttle a lot of the time > major gain in speed Not noticeable by anyone. That's been the case for years, since everything Intel has is an improvement upon Haswell/Skylake. > GPU For anyone who cares about GPUs, these processors will be paired with some nVidia or (unlikely) AMD chips, so they'll be unused, just like most Intel IGPs.
- chx 6y agoThis is a nothing burger. Intel doesn't have anything. AMD pwnd them throughly and they are desperately trying to and failing to match them. That is all. Please note the lack of shipping dates and the positioning of these at "premier consumer" laptops meaning they can't produce enough still -- who the heck wants an 1500 USD IdeaPad? What's the point when the X1 Carbon Gen 7 is 1200 USD? You can spin that as "but that's previous generation" as if it meant anything at all. On the business side (14nm CPUs they can make plenty of), Intel hasn't produced anything new for three years now, they just change the labels so they announce something "new".