This article was reprinted with permission from Superpower.com.
Although Intel is unlikely to mass-produce 10nm chips in the next year and a half, officials have made it clear that Cascade Lake server chips and Whiskey Lake processors will be introduced this year. The latter is mainly used in mobile platforms. So from the current situation, the integrated GPU core display is not expected to improve, but the CPU core will continue to optimize the frequency, energy efficiency, if Intel announces the performance increase of 15-20%. Surprised.
CPU technist Ashraf Eassa has analysed the architecture improvements and performance of the Whiskey Lake processor (WHL) on his personal blog, predicting and seeing what he is saying.
Intel's current processor is the Kaby Lake-Refresh (KBL-R) and the WHL processor has improvements in the following areas:
WHL Continues to Optimize Frequency and Improve Energy Efficiency at the Architecture/Physical Level
A new generation of high-performance PCH chipset, KBL-R chipset is still 22nm process, WHL supporting chipset should be the same as the high-end Kaby Lake-U series of chipsets use 14nm process
May support LPDDR4 memory (Current Cannonlake-U series already support LPDDR4 memory, there are indications that WHL is compatible with CNL-U)
It is not yet clear whether the WHL processor will continue to use the 14nm++ process or will use the new 14nm+++ process. Even assuming it will use the same 14nm++ process, Esasa believes that the performance of the WHL processor will be higher than the current KBL-R, because Intel also There are more tools available, such as continuing to increase the CPU Turbo Boost frequency to 4.5-4.6GHz, even if this is a U series of 15W TDP power consumption, it may increase the acceleration frequency and voltage of 2-4 cores, thanks to WHL energy efficiency On the improvement.
So his point is that if Intel announces that WHL performance is 15-20% better than KBL-R, don't be surprised.
As for the GPU core, we don't expect any improvement. It's still the same recipe - the Gen9.5 architecture graphics unit. Now Kaby Lake, Kaby Lake-R, Coffee Lake-U are all using this core, so There will be no change in game performance and multimedia performance.
In short, the Whiskey Lake processor is competent if it is the successor to the KBL-R, but its architecture has not changed, so this is not a worthy escalation.
PS: The Whiskey Lake processor is used for mobile processors. Intel can optimize the next TDP space by providing a 15-20% performance mobile processor. However, the desktop processor is different. Core i7 The frequency of the -8700K is raised to the highest of 4.7GHz, the core is increased to 6 cores, and it will be increased to 8 cores this year. However, it is not easy to say whether the frequency can continue to increase. How many upgrades the next-generation desktop processor can squeeze is still unknown.
