Intel first demonstrates the work of the eight-core flagship mobile processor Tiger Lake-H

During the GDC Showcase 2021, Roger Chandler, VP of Gaming at Intel, shared some of the flagship processor’s specs in the Tiger Lake-H mobile family for the first time. Like the entire Tiger Lake family, this chip uses the new Willow Cove core architecture and will be manufactured according to 10nm technological standards.

Chandler said that the processor model under discussion will offer 8 physical cores, capable of processing 16 virtual threads, and has a maximum frequency of 5 GHz. He did not indicate the chip model, but, probably, we are talking about the Core i9-11980HK.

He also added that this processor model would have 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes at its disposal, which, according to an Intel representative, will allow the CPU to unleash the full potential of the fastest solid-state drives and the most powerful video cards. By the way, the recently released AMD Ryzen 5000H series of mobile processors do not support this interface.

Roger Chandler demonstrated the work of the new Core i9 processor of the Tiger Lake-H family as part of a gaming laptop in the game Total War, which is very demanding on the central processor’s performance. True, the senior Intel manager did not indicate whether the laptop was equipped with a discrete video card. However, VideoCardz suggested that the game was launched on the integrated Intel Xe-LP graphics.