Intel has named Tiger Lake-H35 the fastest mobile processors in a single thread. But at the same time I compared them with old AMD chips
Intel said its fresh 10nm Tiger Lake-H35 chips for compact gaming laptops offer the highest level of single-threaded performance. For persuasiveness, the company provides several graphs that display the results in synthetic and gaming tests and a comparison with competitor’s processor models.
Recall that the new Tiger Lake-H35 models differ from the Tiger Lake-U models in a wider thermal package of 35W and higher clock rates, which can reach 5.0 GHz in Turbo mode. According to the manufacturer, expanding the thermal package boundaries allowed to increase performance compared to conventional 15-watt Tiger Lake-U by 9% with a single-threaded load and by more than 40% with a multi-threaded load.
To demonstrate the Tiger Lake-H35 processors’ capabilities, Intel uses the 35W Core i7-11375H Special Edition processor as an example. It is equipped with four cores, eight threads and is clocked up to 5.0 GHz with Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology. The chip in an unnamed reference system has been tested in the SPECrate2017_int_base benchmark, which evaluates single-threaded performance under high-intensity workloads. The company claims that only the flagship 10th Gen Intel Core i9-10980HK processor (8 cores, 16 threads, the maximum frequency of 5.3 GHz) with a TDP level of 45 can be compared with the Core i7-11375H Special Edition in terms of this indicator. Tue
This graph also displays single-threaded performance results for two AMD processor models. True, Intel somehow compares its latest Tiger Lake-H35 series with the previous generation Ryzen 4000 models based on the Zen 2 architecture, and not with the fresh Ryzen 5000 series chips based on the Zen 3 architecture, which were also recently introduced. According to the graph, the Core i7-11375H Special Edition’s single-threaded performance is up to 25% faster than the 45W AMD Ryzen 9 4900H model.
The Core i7-11375H Special Edition, a mobile reference system, was also tested in 16 popular games. The company provided a graph with results in six of them. However, in doing so, she decided not to report the gaming performance results of the same competitor models shown in the graph above. Intel also decided not to mention the more recent AMD Ryzen 5000 processors in this comparison. Meanwhile, AMD is promising up to 19% IPC gain for the new Zen 3 processor series over Zen 2 cores.
Many manufacturers have already introduced their notebooks equipped with the latest Intel and AMD processors. New items will start shipping to the market in the first half of 2021.
