We're comparing alleged retail prices against recommended prices, but it's clear that Intel's 12th Generation Core processors are going to be more expensive than the company's 11th Gen-Core CPUs, largely because they have more cores and should be significantly faster than their prior-gen counterparts.
However, as more laptop makers make the jump to Tiger Lake we could see optimizations in design and drivers that really allow Intel’s new silicon to sing. Intel Tiger Lake chips are becoming more prolific as laptop makers undergo their late-year refresh cycles, with more machines coming with Core i5 and Core i7 slices of silicon with Intel’s Xe graphics onboard.Īnd so far, these chips have been reasonably well-received, though they’ve yet to set a new paradigm for laptop performance.
And the Razer Blade 13 has also got a Tiger Lake upgrade along with the new productivity-centric Razer Book 13. The Dell XPS 13 OLED and Dell XPS 15 OLED, for example, now pack upgraded Tiger Lake CPUs bringing boosted Core i5 and Core i7 processors to the stellar little laptops, as well as access to the new Xe graphics. (Image credit: Acer) Intel Tiger Lake laptopsĪs Intel Tiger Lake chips are released into the wild, we can expect to see them arrive in more ultraportable laptops from the likes of Dell, Acer, Asus, MSI and Microsoft. Both these chips also have a 12-28W power draw. It has a dual-core, quad-thread sibling in the form of the Core i3-1115G4, which comes with 6MB of cache memory and runs up to 4.1GHz on both its cores. It also supports LPDDR4x-3733 RAM and only hits 3.7GHz on a single core and 3.3GHz on all four cores. The Core i3-1125G4 is pretty similar to its Core i5 counterpart only it doesn't have the Iris Xe graphics and instead uses Intel UHD Graphics. Expect this chip to be a mainstream part for the likes of the Microsoft Surface Laptop 4.Īll three of these chips come with support for LPDDR4x-4266 memory and come with a power draw that ranges between 12-28W. It comes with 8MB of cache and its Xe graphic sports 80 EUs. The Core i5-1135G7 comes with the same four-core, eight-thread design of it’s Core i7 siblings, but has a max single-core clock speed of 4.2GHz and multi-core speed of 3.8GHz. The Core i7-1165G7 is pretty much the same but with slightly slower clock speeds.
It also comes with the most powerful Xe graphics accelerator, sporting 96 execution units (EUs), which is nearly double that of the top-end Ice Lake Iris Plus GPU, which has 64 EUs.
With 12MB of cache memory this is the most powerful Tiger Lake CPU.
Top of the pack is the Core i7-1185G7, a quad-core, eight-thread CPU that clocks up to 4.8GHz on a single core and 4.3GHz across all cores. But these will vary in clock speed, graphics performance, and thermal design power (TFP) depending on where they sit in the Tiger Lake lineup. With Tiger Lake, Intel is sticking with the same Core i7, i5, and i3 configurations. Much like Ice Lake, the Tiger Lake laptop chips are split into two families, one for ultraportable laptops that want to tread the line between sustained performance nad power consumption, and another for thin-and-light laptop that don’t need as much performance all the time but need to spend a long time away from a power source. But this time the chips come with improved CPU - more than a 20 percent hike - and two times the GPU performance, courtesy of the new Intel Iris Xe graphics. Intel Tiger Lake chips build upon the 10nm process node that the Ice Lake CPUs introduced last year.