well you guys probably guessed it because there's no way Intel was gonna
take all of those AMD product launches lying down right I mean if you're here
to learn more about their new desktop processors look away right now because
you guessed it I'm here to talk about mobile CPUs again that means the ice
lake architecture Gen eleven graphics and ten nanometer manufacturing process
are almost sort of here I mean you'll be able to buy them starting November
supposedly and honestly if you thought Intel's lineup was confusing before just
wait till they see what they've cooked up now to set the stage let's do a
little test here are four of Intel's newest processors and pause if you have
to because I'd like you to write them down in order of the highest performance
to be lowest and we'll discuss about them later in the video with that done
I'm going to try to make some sense of Intel's lineup right after a quick
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right into this with a quick explanation on how Intel and AMD usually launch
their processors so little give you a rough idea on why we haven't seen Intel
respond to Ryzen 3000 series yet so basically AMD launches their desktop
processors first and noble processors last what that means is they're noble
processors are a generation behind their desktop ports intel does things a lot
differently unlike AMD intel's mobile processors are
at least a generation ahead of what desktop users can remember the
coffee lake CPU's on the desktop actually use an architecture that was launched
almost two years ago so I guess that brings me to ice Lake and if you thought
Intel's last gen lineup was confusing this one is absolutely ridiculous I
can't believe this is happening again and it gets even worse I mean Intel what
are you really trying to do to us I mean this this is what we're dealing
with so this is Intel's version of an alphabet soup a mishmash of letters and
numbers and yeah it's call me i7-1068g7 what what
I'll try to explain so the i7 the i5 or the i3 it's supposed to tell you the
general performance level after that well things take a turn for the worse so
the ten part of this number means that it's Intel's 10th generation architecture
but there are some exceptions and I'll mention that a bit later so the next two
numbers tell you the relative performance versus other parts in Intel
selenium for example as 68 will perform better than a 65 right but to add a bit
more complication to this any CPU ending in five or eight will belong to the u
series family while a name ending in zero puts it into an ultra-low voltage Y
Series lineup finally any CPU with G in its name will have the new gen 11
graphics architecture the g7 has 64 execution units g4 has 48 and the g1 has
32 remember these new graphics cores are pretty important to Intel supposedly a
gen 11 GPU with 64 use can't perform equally to an NVIDIA MX150 that's good
news for Intel but bad news for NVIDIA we actually looked at that GPU in
razor's blade stealth and concerning that notebooks form factor it was pretty
impressive in fact if you're interested in a full performance analysis you can
check it out right over here now imagine that kind of performance from an even
thinner and lighter system well that's what Intel's after so let's dive into
this confusing lineup starting with the u series which actually don't have the
letter U anywhere in the name anyways the lineup includes six processors from
i7 to i3 with the i7 and i5 having four cores and eight threads while the i3 has
to course other than clock speeds the main difference between I7 and i5 CPU's
is the amount of cache asked for the integrated graphics well that's all over
the place and you can start seeing why this lamp is so damn confusing
while the i7 has the full 64 execution unit layout the i5-1035 series can have
either 64 48 or 32 he use the i3 only has about 32 years oh and did you notice
that 1035 CPU yeah there are three of them guys all different graphics configs
and clock speeds another thing you'll notice is how low the
mark speeds are even though the TDP values haven't improved over the
previous generation if we take that 28 1 I7 out of the picture the base
frequencies barely stay above a gigahertz the single and all core turbo
speeds are a bit better but in general they're between 300 and 900 megahertz
slower than the previous generation so what does that mean
it looks like Intel needs to rely on architectural improvements to carry
isolate instead of clock speeds personally I think there will be a minor
performance difference between 9th and tension CPUs in regular workloads but I
might be wrong you never know you just never know and I'm gonna be really
honest here I think Intel might be in a bit of trouble because it looks like 10
nanometer can hit the same frequencies as the older 40 nanometer process you
see with AMD and their launch of the Ryzen 3000 series CPUs they were able to
switch over to seven nanometer while maintaining or offering better
frequencies now I'm sure that's on the desktop side but at least it's worth
mentioning alright so back to the lineup with the Y series Intel's most efficient
low-power notebook CPUs are popped into this lineup and there's some exciting
stuff here but also some bad news it's great to see fork or a thread
ultra-efficient CPUs but TDPS have climbed significantly from 5 to 7 watts
on amber Lake y to 9 to 12 watts on ice Lake sure you're getting a lot of GPU
horsepower but I'm interested in knowing if you guys see this as a benefit or
sacrifice now about those base clocks well it's like we're back in the Athlon
thunderbird days guys and here's a virtual cookie to anyone who gets that
reference luckily the turbo and GPU clocks are per
decent even when compared to the previous generation so remember that a
little quiz I gave you at the beginning of this video well here's a list again
and based on what you know let's put this in order from the fastest to the
slowest so the i7-1065g7 is to first since it's part of the u series and has
4 cores and 8 threads next is the i-5-1035g7 not to be honest
did anyone really guessed that well what about the other i7 remember what I said
about the low power and low performance why series not having a 5 at the end of
its name well here it is good people performance
on this one will be less than the i5-1035g7 finally there's the i5-1030g7
which is also a fork or a third processor in the y series and it's also
the lowest performing of the processors that I've shown here now Intel also
mentioned that these new processors will have support for Wi-Fi 6 and terrible 3
but ultimately it is up to the manufacturers to add those features into
their designs I mean it's nice to have them as marketing bullet points but
that's about it so this is the problem that I see right
now Intel's names are so damn long that they actually stopped using the letters
U and Y those actually help folks understand the differences between the
different series of processors and a number most people who are investing
their hard-earned money into these notebooks aren't gonna watch this video
and definitely aren't as tech savvy as you and me and the amount of confusion
that this is gonna cause it's it's an absolute mess guys actually - what
having gone through all of this right now I'm done I'm done