Intel Launches Tiger Lake: A Live Blog (Noon ET, 9am PT)
by Dr. Ian Cutress on September 2, 2020 11:56 AM EST
11:58AM EDT - Intel is about to launch Tiger Lake. Follow along with our Live Blog!
11:59AM EDT - Here we go
11:59AM EDT - Greg Bryant on the deck
11:59AM EDT - Helping people connect in the current environment
12:00PM EDT - Challenged ourselves to advance the PC platform
12:00PM EDT - Several new ground breaking updates
12:00PM EDT - Leading the ecosystem
12:00PM EDT - Starting witht he partners
12:00PM EDT - Acer, Microsoft
12:01PM EDT - Best Buy, HP
12:01PM EDT - Shifting to use cases
12:01PM EDT - Dell
12:01PM EDT - Google
12:01PM EDT - Raja Koduri
12:01PM EDT - Samsung
12:01PM EDT - IQIYI
12:01PM EDT - JD.com, Tripwire
12:02PM EDT - Reducing the barrier between the human and the work they're doing
12:02PM EDT - Adobe, JOYY, IDC
12:02PM EDT - Lenovo
12:02PM EDT - Using new technologies with Intel, stretching the boundaries
12:02PM EDT - ASUS
12:02PM EDT - Working across the industry
12:03PM EDT - 'World's Best Processor!'
12:03PM EDT - 9 new SKUs for Tiger Lake
12:03PM EDT - Not an exaggeration
12:03PM EDT - Best Intel CPU Intel has ever built
12:03PM EDT - best CPU on the market
12:03PM EDT - beats the imitators
12:03PM EDT - PC without compromise
12:04PM EDT - New CPU up to 4.8 GHz
12:04PM EDT - New Xe GPU
12:04PM EDT - Industry Leading AI and TB4
12:04PM EDT - Thin and light designs
12:04PM EDT - Samsung system - Tiger Lake plus 5G
12:05PM EDT - ASUS Expertbook - 14inch only 870g
12:05PM EDT - More than 50 new designs in total
12:05PM EDT - 50 designs in market for holiday, over 150+ designs in total
12:05PM EDT - New Branding
12:05PM EDT - 4x faster for content creators
12:05PM EDT - +20% on productivity
12:06PM EDT - Iris Xe graphics, Better than 90% of all discrete GPU notebooks sold last year
12:06PM EDT - Now Boyd Phelps
12:06PM EDT - Redefined 10nm to 10nm SuperFin
12:06PM EDT - CPU redesigned to enable frequency gains
12:07PM EDT - 40nm Poly Pitch ((did he say that?))
12:07PM EDT - Leakage sensitive IPs
12:07PM EDT - lowered voltage across the board
12:07PM EDT - Redefined metal stack
12:08PM EDT - We created magic
12:08PM EDT - much lower voltages
12:08PM EDT - Up to 2x graphics perf
12:08PM EDT - 5x better AI perf
12:09PM EDT - Wi-Fi 6, TB4, USB4
12:09PM EDT - PCIe Gen4 attach up to 32 Gbps (that's PCIe 4.0 x4)
12:09PM EDT - LPD5 memory controller
12:10PM EDT - Intro video
12:11PM EDT - Not possible with other processors on the market
12:11PM EDT - Now AI and media
12:11PM EDT - Measuring more than benchmarks
12:11PM EDT - actual application performance is critical
12:12PM EDT - Upscaling
12:12PM EDT - comparing to 4800U
12:12PM EDT - Intel is over 200% faster than AMD
12:12PM EDT - Not all cores are created equal
12:13PM EDT - Intel nearly 100% faster in Adobe Export
12:13PM EDT - VCE limited workload
12:13PM EDT - Now Microsoft teams demo
12:13PM EDT - vacuuming in the background
12:14PM EDT - 11th Gen comes with background noise removal
12:14PM EDT - 11th Gen Core is the best at everything you do most
12:14PM EDT - Comparing Intel to AMD
12:14PM EDT - What AMD system is that? Looks like a bulky Lenovo
12:15PM EDT - 11th Gen is better than MX350
12:15PM EDT - Gears Tactics
12:16PM EDT - (It's worth noting that Gears Tactics doesn't have a fixed seed benchmark and has +/- 10% variation on a single run)
12:16PM EDT - Up to 2x higher frame rates for ultraportables
12:16PM EDT - Now Project Athena
12:17PM EDT - Innovate beyond the CPU
12:17PM EDT - Set of requirements to be Athena certified
12:18PM EDT - Athena 1.0 had 50+ designs
12:18PM EDT - Not stopping here
12:18PM EDT - 11th Gen core - next gen Athena laptops
12:19PM EDT - 25+ performance and responsiveness tests
12:19PM EDT - 9+ hours on FHD
12:20PM EDT - 4hrs charge in 30 minutes
12:20PM EDT - TB4, Wi-Fi 6 required
12:20PM EDT - The Best laptops available
12:20PM EDT - DJ Diplo to the stage
12:21PM EDT - The laptop is my instrument
12:21PM EDT - Ooooh looks like Intel Evo
12:21PM EDT - New streaming environment for DJs
12:21PM EDT - 20-30k viewers on twitch
12:21PM EDT - Always stay connected to technology
12:22PM EDT - 'Peace and Love Intel - DJ Diplo'
12:22PM EDT - The most advanced components and technologies
12:22PM EDT - Now PC Gaming
12:22PM EDT - 1.2 B gamers worldwide
12:23PM EDT - Playing popular eSports games on laptops now possible on 11th Gen
12:23PM EDT - Game stream and record on the laptops
12:23PM EDT - The competition can't keep up despite having more cores
12:24PM EDT - College students need battery life and connectivity speed
12:24PM EDT - Managing tabs and programs at once
12:24PM EDT - Work anywhere you like and never miss a beat
12:24PM EDT - Athena laptops wake in a second
12:25PM EDT - video showing 4K scrubbing for video editing.... but the comment about battery life, not scrubbing perfromance
12:25PM EDT - People don't use PCs, they try to get stuff done, so we don't want the PC to be in the way
12:27PM EDT - Now branding
12:27PM EDT - These advancements are leaps due to a new approach to engineering
12:28PM EDT - setting a new bar for laptop experiences without compromise
12:28PM EDT - 11th Gen and Athena are exceptional
12:28PM EDT - Introducing Intel Evo
12:28PM EDT - 1000s of hours of co-engineering
12:28PM EDT - A new marketing campaign with partners
12:28PM EDT - new era for Intel
12:28PM EDT - Embrace the future of our iconic brand
12:29PM EDT - Today is Intel's 3rd major pivot
12:29PM EDT - requires a new logo
12:29PM EDT - new global brand
12:29PM EDT - (was that an s775 processor)
12:29PM EDT - Entire portfolio gets an updated look, including Xeon and Optane
12:30PM EDT - Only Intel has the unmatched assets to do this
12:30PM EDT - Strong ecosystem partners and thousands of engineers
12:31PM EDT - Evo is a badge to signify the most advanced laptops on the market
12:31PM EDT - Now it's your turn
12:32PM EDT - Ending video it seems - but it's such a low bit rate
12:33PM EDT - All the disclaimers
12:33PM EDT - There are some press-only 'Blueprints' sessions later today. Let's see if we get more info from them. Bye for now!
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Hifihedgehog - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
28-watt TDP, instead of 15-watt default. Good luck with that. They bumped up the TDP to give the illusion of increased performance.Unashamed_unoriginal_username_x86 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
This looks like a copy paste but you swapped AMD and Intelpoohbear - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Why would you say RIP AMD? You know any innovation intel does is BECAUSE of the competition, right? Intel was complacent for years.Meteor2 - Thursday, September 3, 2020 - link
Indeed. These new Intel chips only exist because of AMD's resurgence. But if the new Intel chips really are this much better (I don't think they are, but "if"), then we face the possibility of losing AMD and Intel sinking back to its old sitting-on-its-hands ways.Hifihedgehog - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Ah, the 28-watt TDP generation. It's a tired, slow, and addled tiger that is not worthy of consideration. Moving on.IntelUser2000 - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Boo!! Intel marketing, get out of here!Today should have meant they send notebooks to Anandtech, Notebookcheck and other reputable sites so they can test them and WE can determine whether 11th Gen Core lives up to the fluff! But this "launch" is again fluff, nothing of significance.
Alistair - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
A bunch of nonsense Intel marketing. Ryzen 4000 laptops were already ahead, and you can buy 6 core models for $560 USD. If TigerLake is only for laptops under $550 they have a sale...psychobriggsy - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
Indeed - it's great for Intel if TigerLake SKUs that match or beat the AMD parts are available at competitive prices to the AMD parts.And this is likely where AMD will compete, by dropping the prices to the OEMs for Renoir. Which is a temporary solution. Cezanne will hopefully help with CPU and clocks, but the GPU is still Vega. Van Gogh is the odd one - it might have a far better GPU than RNR or CZN, and compete with the 7W-12W TGLs.
It's good that Intel have finally got something to show in the 10nm mobile CPU arena, and the high base clocks and turbo, and new CPU core, are going to put Intel in a strong position. Am concerned that the default TDP for this is now 28W, not 15W which is now the cTDP setting. AMD will now have to follow suit surely with CZN.
But I'll wait for a wider spread of benchmarks in real world products before declaring an outright winner.
Alistair - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
reputation leads to high prices with the public, but knowledgeable people are only buying Ryzen 4000 for the most part right nowmore cores, more productivity performance, better battery life, same gaming performance
GNUminex_l_cowsay - Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - link
The 12MB L3 cache is concerning. On desktop doubling your L3 for a bigger number and better performance in a limited number of applications is fine since the static power consumption isn't an issue. But in an ultra-portable you need stronger argument, or a way to reduce the static power cost, or else you will just take a bite out of your idle battery life with no benefit across most applications.