Skylake’s pair of wider SIMD units gives it a further edge compared to the Zen architecture in some tasks, too.įuture generations of Ryzen CPUs may require Intel to dig more single-core performance out of its labs somehow, but for now, Skylake is still the best thing going in x86 CPUs. AMD’s Ryzen CPUs might not trail Skylake by that much on a clock-for-clock basis, but Intel can usually clock its chips much higher than AMD can. Source: IntelĪlthough its continuing encores are a bit of a let-down for chip nerds, Skylake has aged remarkably well as CPUs go. Instead, these chips are still fabricated on the good old 14-nm+ process that underpins Kaby Lake parts.Ī typical Kaby Lake Refresh CPU package. The basic CPU core for Kaby Lake Refresh is the same Skylake microarchitecture we’ve known since 2015. Intel’s 14-nm process has now gone through two cycles of improvement in that time, but Kaby Lake Refresh doesn’t rely on 14-nm++ to deliver its extra cores. (Apple’s MacBook Pros are one notable exception.)Ī block diagram of the Skylake client core.
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Those parts generally carry 45W TDPs that require big honking cooling systems and thick chassis to operate at peak performance, and it’s been rare to find one of those chips in a Windows machine outside of gaming laptops with dedicated graphics cards on board. Until now, four cores and eight threads in an Intel mobile CPU has been the exclusive domain of the company’s H-series chips. Intel’s latest 15W chips are quad-core parts with Hyper-Threading enabled, for a total of eight threads. The first wave of those CPUs, announced back in August, encompassed two Core i5s and two Core i7s. 2017 has been the hottest year for CPU performance increases in quite some time, though, so it’s only fitting that Intel would finally shake things up with its first eighth-generation Core mobile processors, code-named Kaby Lake Refresh (or Kaby Lake-R).
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