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so copy text has officially started but a few weeks ago Intel actually invited us over at their offices in California to check out some upcoming processors 10 gen processors code-named ice lake now I do want to be fully clear here ice Lake is only officially rolling out into lower powered notebooks and not be higher desktop platforms so we're just going to wait and see when the architecture fully goes into that platform but for now it's just tension on lower powered notebooks and you'll only be able to see them available in October or November of this year so without any further ado let's talk about ice Lake but first a quick message from our sponsor the newbie quiet dark rock slim cooler offers high physical clearance for any memory module thanks to its slim heatsink and the low profile 120 mil airflow optimized fan so you get great cooling low noise easy installation and no issues for high profile RAM check it out the low okay so let's quickly talk about what exactly ice Lake is because if you look at the whole current state of Intel's processor line up especially on a notebook side it gets a bit confusing because we're only starting to see companies roll out whiskey Lake into the ultrabooks and it's still gonna stay here for a really long time and so Intel is gonna have a tough time rolling out these new ice Lake processors in 2019 so yeah I guess it's just gonna cause a lot of confusion among consumers but we're just gonna have to wait and see how this all plays out for the rest of 2019 anyway so for the time being ice Lake will only be replacing whiskey Lake CPUs in tenon like notebooks from a technical standpoint with Killick architecture used the agent core design but Intel still managed to increase frequencies by a huge amount without sacrificing battery life on the high performance gaming notebook side there's coffee lake which uses Intel's 9 generation but that's not a space isolate we'll play quite yet isolate is super important because this is actually in tellest architecture shift in the last five years that's mostly because they're finally able to shift away from the 14 nanometer manufacturing process and to a 10 nanometer node plus many of the features and technologies will be cascaded down into upcoming CPUs for years to come without getting too far into the technical details every single part of isolate CPUs are new in some way the Sun eco CPU cores are much more advanced than anything skylake derivatives offered internal bandwidth and cache sizes have been overhaul too so the processor can chew through tasks a lot more faster meanwhile the memory controller gets a new phase to with support for up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 3200 speeds or 32 gigabytes of LP for at 37 33 megahertz which is crazy in terms of specs this is all we really know right now there will be a u and y Series models with up to four cores and eight threads so essentially a carbon copy of a whiskey like set up much like whisky Lake the TDP of these is configurable but instead of ranging between 10 watts to 25 watts the span will now between 9 watts and 28 watts with the most popular design likely hitting the 15 watt mark l3 cache still remains at 8 megabytes but secondary caches are much larger and faster so don't take this number as a lack of improvement honestly the most interesting spec here is probably the clock speeds ice lakes max turbo frequency hits up to 4 point 1 gigahertz which is much lower than the 4.8 Gertz achieved by the ieee 78665 you I'm guessing that intel expects their architecture improvements to make up for the lower clock speeds but this will be interesting to see finally the graphics configuration is a bit of a question mark right now obviously there's the new gen 11 architecture which we'll dive deeper into a separate video and Intel's Irish name will come back with configurations up to 64 execution units that's a huge jump from the current maximum of 24 on whiskey Lake and even more than the 48 offered on older iris plus GPUs the fact that this kind of graphics power is being added to lower powered notebook CPUs is pretty impressive but we don't know how gentlemen GPU specs will play out across IP ice Lake range so don't assume those 64 core designs will hit lower price systems Intel is also trying to push Thunderbolt 3 which is understandable since it's their own technology plus the USB 3 ecosystem is becoming extremely confusing and fractured lately with the new ridiculous USB 3.2 rebranding to try and simplify Thunderbolt is being added to next-gen notebooks and they built a four port Thunderbolt controller directly into the isolate core rather than being in a separate chip but will that mean that more notebooks will be built with exclusively tenable 3 compatible type-c ports not really since it's up to manufacturers to implement it properly into their designs and we all know how they love saving money by skimping on IO ports but what does this all mean for performance well Intel really didn't show off much in that respect and they didn't even explain the final specs of their isolate processor family which is sort of odd before we even get into the charts let's talk about the testing config Intel use every single CPU is Intel's legacy configurations that uses a 15 watt TDP which in this case of cable a car and this whiskey Lake example means a quad core a thread part using 16 gigabytes of ddr4 at 2400 megahertz in a dual channel config there's nothing really to complain about there the isolate config ones pretty identical with 15 watts eight threads and 16 gigs of memory but that's been clocked at 37 33 megahertz that might sound like a huge issue for comparisons but this is lpddr4 which means a reduced overall bandwidth but the 13 30 megahertz speed Delta between this and whiskey Lake could still throw off the results by a bit alright so on to a few charts we have this result shows that from an instructions per clock or IPC standpoint ice Lake will deliver on an average of 80 percent higher rates than skylake cores we see that spec 2016 and 2017 cysmart web x PRT and Cinebench were used but absolutely nothing allows us to align specific results or tests with the graph it's also important to remember that higher instructions per clock doesn't necessarily translate into direct corresponding boosts in key applications this next chart shows that well here we have single thread performance in a simpler integer calculation across 15 watt CPUs it looks like the I select CPU achieves between 5 to 6% better performance but the result isn't as clear as it first looks since Intel clearly stated ice Lake will run at lower speeds than whiskey Lake we could be seeing a higher clock agent CPU battling it out a technically lower powered or lower speed 10 gen processor since Intel clearly stated ice Lake will run at lower speeds than whiskey Lake we could be seeing a higher clock agency PU battling it out a technically lower speed tangent processor if that's the case this result is pretty impressive even with a higher speed memory taken into account however if both CPUs are hitting the same frequency ice lake may end up being a small incremental improvement rather than a leap forward now this chart again shows two 15-watt configs but with an iris pro integrated part alongside a previous gen UHD 620 graphics on one hand it's great to hear that Intel will be rolling out MX 150 level graphics into their lower voltage processors but we have several unanswered questions about this particular iris pro layout and the number of execution units it uses the last thing that I want to touch base on is Intel's push towards Wi-Fi 6k plus because while it's isn't new I don't think it's a big selling feature yet remember Wi-Fi 6 has been around since whiskey lake but the number of compatible devices is minimal due to costs involved Intel is trying to fix that issue with a newer module design which should simplify a router and PC designs but they're also adding the gig plus specification which is yet another speed increase the limiting factor of gig plus is that it speeds reached well about a thousand megabits per second which is literally the limit of most people's in how wide networks this is very much geared towards enterprises that might be running 10g infrastructure's but in the future it may apply to home users as well so there you guys have it yet more processors from Intel and it looks like it's a pretty big step forward especially since they're moving away from the 14 animated manufacturing process to a 10 nanometer process you've also got the new architecture based off the sunny Cove cores as well as Jenna lemon graphics and much more so let me know what you guys think are you excited for these new processors let me know in the comments down below i'm Ebro with hurricane x thank you so much for watching make sure to check out some relevant content over here subscribe to our channel or new channel over here that's Michael 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