a PC world fans Adam here with Gordon and Gordon I hear there is a new 10th
gen CPU that just came out we just tested it a couple weeks ago you know
10th gen ice like tandem you know here's a goodness perfect BAM this morning
Intel release officially 10th gen comet Lake CPUs wait we we literally just you
know check that out same thing different 10 nanometer this is 14 nanometer
cynical people would say it's just whiskey Lake plus plus 14 plus post post
post probably a little mean because there is a significant difference with
comet Lake there makes it probably worth it I would argue you could argue it's
worth it well I'm gonna need you to explain all this to me cuz this is one
giant headache right yeah right now I know and so rather than just sort of
make fun of Intel's names and do the facepalm in Captain Picard all and stuff
we're gonna offer you some practical advice because you don't care about all
that noise you just want to buy CPU with tenth gen CPU you want to know yeah
which one it to buy but damn look at this this list has 19 CPUs to pick from
between ice Lake and comment Lake these are now on the market or coming on the
market very soon we got everything from 10 nanometer to 40 nanometer two cores
of six cores 64 --use graphics power to 24 high-power low-power high clocks low
clocks yeah real attic yeah and those numbers
kind of run the gamut so yes four digits ice like five digits comment link forget
it figure out that noise you just want practical practical this is this is
gonna be very useful here i sat down I looked at all 19 CPUs based on the
testing we've already done on ice Lake okay and based on testing we've done on
whiskey Lake you basically very similar CPU pretty much some people would say
the same but with more cores okay looking at the clock speeds I can now
tell you which CPU to buy Oh BAM look at this chart color coded on the Left first
column we get all of the CPUs each different model you're gonna find in all
the new laptops coming out 90 new laptops and tablets and devices
we're told wow it's a lot so the first one is a future-proof
new instructions okay the best example of this is avx-512 support it is
advanced math features that's probably all you want to know in the CPU it's
only in ice Lake it's not in common Lake so things like deep learning and AI that
kind of fancy stuff intel has demonstrated a couple of
different photo applications I use this to do you know face recognition all
kinds of goodness a IDL stuff realistically it's going to take a long
time for that stuff to work its way into all the applications that's use you're
not going to immediately use this in office for example okay so that's why
I'm calling it future proof so if you are like I'm worried there's gonna be a
new feature in a program I use and it's not going to support it you're gonna
want a CPU with the new instructions in finis 512 next one is Quick Sync video
performance so if you do video editing like you do there's this cool feature in
Intel CPUs with integrated graphics that makes it a lot faster it's dedicated
circuits to to transcode to convert video it's actually really good on most
Intel CPUs but 10 nanometer Ice link is gonna be faster because it has the newer
quick sync engine significantly faster doing say a TVC h.265 these new advanced
codecs so if you're really looking at doing video encoding video transcoding
using next-generation codecs you're gonna want the one with the green here
again previous CPUs and comment link they're still good but ice Lake is gonna
be faster on these newer things okay the the next one you also mentioned video
editing to explain that one a little bit so the next way next thing is multi-core
performance we're basically saying okay which of these TP is gonna be best for
multi-core performance video editing is what most people can relate to you
because video editors do actually use most of the cores if you if you throw it
at them it can all cope it can also be used with
3d modeling probably unlikely to be doing on a small laptop but you might
actually do it there's also some some applications some very specialized
photo applications that will use all those cores basically if you use a if
you need a CPU with more cores for your applications you want the one that's
going to be the greenest here the one that is the greenness is common link
14 nanometer older process but six cores now this is the reason why all of the
hate over that not ecology should be cold turn gen is not true because of
that six core comp link is a big step forward think of it this way what three
years ago you only had two cores and a laptop this small then you went up to 4
cores now we're getting up to six cores and ace you know two-and-a-half to three
pound laptop significant improvement for people who need more cores after that
six core if the next thing you feel like well I don't do a lot of it but I do a
little bit more you could look for see the quad cores so basically all the quad
cores get very good from there goes to dual cores some of the lower clock CPUs
one thing I do want to point out big difference here is the common late
low-power Y class CPUs actually now get quad cores so I'm gonna give them a good
ratings probably not good it's not gonna push as hard as a higher power using CPU
but you still get more core it's still gonna be good overall next category
single core performance for office work office browsing chrome also Photoshop a
lot of photos of editing programs specifically Adobe's Photoshop generally
don't use a lot of CPU cores yeah so for these things you really want very high
clock speeds or very efficient cores so we go through we looked at all those
again commonly I'm gonna rank higher then isolate because the six core and
the four core quad core comet Lake can hit higher clock speeds four point nine
gigahertz and that quad core common Lake saying four point seven gigahertz on
that six core CPU in general having tested whiskey Lake and testing ice Lake
already I'm gonna say these are probably gonna out step I say a little bit a
decent amount that you're probably gonna be at ridden those but also very good
ice Lake single core formitz is actually really good
considering it's a lower clock speed but because the cores are more efficient
those higher power isolate CPUs are probably gonna do pretty good at single
core loads probably decent not gonna be as fast as that common lake with more
cores or higher you know a higher clocks but still very good well okay can I give
you a question that was kind of uh as I was looking at the the chart here I have
a question that's specific to my needs when you're talking about workloads like
video editing or photo editing I think I gravitate towards this comment like
10710 you but the Quick Sync performances it's just barely good do
you know I look I'm it's better it's gonna be better if you do a TV see if
you're gonna be doing you know H not to that stuff it's gonna be better with I
sling but it's still really good in those other parts yeah that is a
weakness one thing I sort of think is sort of the the fantasy combo for that
six core CPU because you put that into a laptop with a discrete GPU so okay the
graphics performance in that older while not older but in common lake is not
going to be fantastic it's not gonna be stellar so if you combine that with
discrete graphics with that six core could be and you're getting into a still
a very light laptop could actually be the fantasy laptop people want
interesting okay well I suggested to Dell XPS 14 take that six core MX 250
that's an XPS 14 folks 14 not bad sighs it's not the best sizer what's what's
the next graph that you have here next one is gaming and graphics performance
also some compute as well if you do that about here is where I say really has a
big advantage I psych has the newest graphics cores the gentle loving
graphics it's it's on par with an MX 150 10 watt mm-hmm a little bit faster not
quite as good as a 25 watt MX 150 g-force part but still pretty good right
so you're looking at actually for the first time ever you know decent
integrated graphics performance in the new isolate parts with the G
seven g seven means good G for little sg1 not that great and you can see as we
look at if you're looking at that that gaming column those ice like laptops
will we go from best to good to fair because you just get fewer --use it just
gets less in performance and I see you put adequate instead of bad right yeah
so I don't want to say yeah bad I don't want to say bad I don't want to put
sweet red it's not close yeah I say good but it's adequate it again a lot of
people play graphics on the current UHD 620 630 graphics the performance of
whiskey of common Lake sorry common like use can be very similar to that it works
it's not great it's adequate okay but you know what if it works for you it's
good but I'm gonna tell you if you care about graphics and game performance
again look to the green those ice Lake g7 parts are the way to go and I am I'm
one interesting to me is the low power y parts now these are they use less power
they still get the full 6040 use the g7 graphics but it's gonna be less power
I'm gonna say it's probably gonna be decent not gonna be as good as a higher
wattage I say part but it's probably gonna be okay but I don't know about
there that's a little bit of a guess there but I don't think Intel's gonna
put a g7 on there unless it can at least hit reasonable graphics performance okay
and then a very important one the last one is battery life yeah so there of all
these that's going to be the biggest variable because it's gonna depend on
the laptop the screen in the laptop the motherboard in the laptop the type of
RAM the amount of RAM the SSD and how big of a battery they put in there but
in general then you're gonna get the best battery for if you care about
battery performance you're gonna see it in those white parts on the why for
common link which is a traditional core mm is what they used to call them their
Y parts and then it's all has these lower power ice like parts TBD on how
well they're gonna do on battery life on paper they don't look as good but I
don't think that's really gonna being true I think those are gonna be sleepers
I think those low power ice like parts are going to be really good performers
for what they are because they are ten nanometers it's possible they may
outperform the other even though they see on paper don't go
to lower power but the green goes to the low power 10 nanometer and the in the 40
nanometer comment Lake because they're just tuned for to use less power they
can hold higher clocks and less power they're going to go to laptops that are
built for longer runtime so make sense that make sense and again I'm not
passing judgment on comet Lake and isolate normal parts those 15 watt parts
because I think those battery life what we've seen out of whiskey Lake has been
pretty awesome so III think it signals still gonna be very good but obviously
the best battery life is going to come out of the low-power parts and the big
question mark is that six core commonly how is the battery life is gonna be on
it I think depending on what you're doing it's probably going to be
excellent because for the most part it's just idling but if you're gonna use all
six cores it's probably gonna chew to that battery lot faster than those other
CPUs okay and then like you said with with all these it's it's gonna really
come down to each manufacturers tuning of the the cooling and the parts and the
screen and all that stuff in it so we should definitely come back you know
once we start getting these laptops in and do a do fuller testing and kind of
see how the the chart flushes itself out right but I do think this again is a
performance forecast I'm pretty comfortable with how this is gonna land
and if you got to go buy something now I think you go through you pick the green
that is important to you and the calm that's important to you and go with it
okay awesome well you know like I said stay tuned for further testing in this
new 10th gen future that Intel is thrust upon us and thanks for putting this a
handy chart together a really appreciated Gordon ok no problem and we
will see you later