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Posted by MatBailie - Thu 02 Jan 2020 10:38
The best news of 10th Gen iCore is going to be lower prices for the equivalent hardware.

The bad news will (likely) be that only top-end chipsets/motherboards will be available on release, undoing those savings until the summer (I hope).

What I'm looking forward to Intel's moving off of 14nm, at which point Intel and AMD will both be able to really push and compete with ech other. Will be very good times for performance increases and price competition. Hopefully that'll happen before I die…
Posted by PMMEASURES - Thu 02 Jan 2020 10:55
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.
Posted by Hoonigan - Thu 02 Jan 2020 11:08
25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.

Not the catchiest of headlines.
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Thu 02 Jan 2020 11:52
PMMEASURES
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.

I think the 5% is from better factory overclocking given the increased TDP.

Probably makes for an even less catchy headline though :)

until it can deliver a 10nm successor for enthusiast desktop users.

Are we really expecting any meaningful volumes of 10nm on the desktop? I'm pretty sure we're waiting on Intel's 7nm for that, with 10nm still not clocking high enough for desktop use.
Posted by gagaga - Thu 02 Jan 2020 12:05
DanceswithUnix
PMMEASURES
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.

I think the 5% is from better factory overclocking given the increased TDP.

Probably makes for an even less catchy headline though :)

until it can deliver a 10nm successor for enthusiast desktop users.

Are we really expecting any meaningful volumes of 10nm on the desktop? I'm pretty sure we're waiting on Intel's 7nm for that, with 10nm still not clocking high enough for desktop use.

Remember when Intel bragged about how much more efficient their latest chip was? That's all our of the window now.
Posted by zaph0d - Thu 02 Jan 2020 12:18
gagaga
DanceswithUnix
PMMEASURES
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.

I think the 5% is from better factory overclocking given the increased TDP.

Probably makes for an even less catchy headline though :)

until it can deliver a 10nm successor for enthusiast desktop users.

Are we really expecting any meaningful volumes of 10nm on the desktop? I'm pretty sure we're waiting on Intel's 7nm for that, with 10nm still not clocking high enough for desktop use.

Remember when Intel bragged about how much more efficient their latest chip was? That's all our of the window now.

Yeah - this is back to the days of Pentium IV levels of garbage, “Look how fast we are” while the chip is generating enough heat to melt it's own heatsink lol
Posted by watercooled - Thu 02 Jan 2020 12:56
PMMEASURES
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.
Nope, this is still Skylake don't forget. Most of the gains from extra cores, the majority of the rest I suspect would be from clock speeds. Perhaps they've included performance improvements for hardware vs software security exploit fixes too?
Posted by PMMEASURES - Thu 02 Jan 2020 13:32
gagaga
DanceswithUnix
PMMEASURES
so bit of mis-advertising per usual of not a like for like :-( so 25% gain attributed to 2 extra cores and 5% from elsewhere IPC/architecture gains but only upto.

I think the 5% is from better factory overclocking given the increased TDP.

Probably makes for an even less catchy headline though :)

until it can deliver a 10nm successor for enthusiast desktop users.

Are we really expecting any meaningful volumes of 10nm on the desktop? I'm pretty sure we're waiting on Intel's 7nm for that, with 10nm still not clocking high enough for desktop use.

Remember when Intel bragged about how much more efficient their latest chip was? That's all our of the window now.

Hmm true, that said it dawned on me though we talking 5% over 10 Core's so 5%/10 = 0.5% per core ouch sounds worse and if there is a Mhz up lift then ouch that might be a negative % on IPC per core. just all the gain from clocking and increased cores. :-/
Posted by LSG501 - Thu 02 Jan 2020 13:43
watercooled
PMMEASURES
software security exploit fixes too?
This is what I was wondering, are those improvements compared with the older chips when they were first released or after they've been nerfed to fix the security exploits…

It's also comical how they've stuck cinebench in there, that 0.25 uptick is primarily down to having 2 more cores….

Still doesn't change my view that I'm better off going AMD anyway but I doubt intel will have much to worry about financially, non tech savvy users will ‘know’ the intel name more often than the amd one sadly.
Posted by edmundhonda - Thu 02 Jan 2020 14:40
Headline's wrong. Slide says ‘projections’ and ‘expected’, these aren't actual results. Intel must love how tech reporting works; toss this out, call it a leak, watch everyone report it as fact.

Besides that: 125w ‘TDP’ and 250w boost? Goodness.
Posted by LyntonB - Thu 02 Jan 2020 16:13
Ridiculously poor power/heat efficiency. More Intel re-heated 14nm crap
Posted by philehidiot - Thu 02 Jan 2020 16:33
Bear in mind that the courts made Intel put their fiddles at the bottom of the slides.

So they ran one with all the security updates and one without for starters….

And as for P4 knocking…. I still have a P4 laptop. A desktop P4 in a laptop. I think I'm going to take it apart and use the heatsink as an anti tank slug.
Posted by Iota - Thu 02 Jan 2020 17:14
That TDP…. Sheesh I'd rather get a Threadripper if I wanted to consume that amount of power.
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Thu 02 Jan 2020 18:52
philehidiot
And as for P4 knocking…. I still have a P4 laptop. A desktop P4 in a laptop.

I am actually stunned, I thought those all melted themselves by now. The only other person I know who was unfortunate enough to get a laptop like that had it replaced under warranty multiple times.
Posted by zaph0d - Thu 02 Jan 2020 19:05
DanceswithUnix
philehidiot
And as for P4 knocking…. I still have a P4 laptop. A desktop P4 in a laptop.

I am actually stunned, I thought those all melted themselves by now. The only other person I know who was unfortunate enough to get a laptop like that had it replaced under warranty multiple times.

lol I've got an old toshiba sat p30 with a 3.3ghz p4 under the hood too
Posted by DanceswithUnix - Thu 02 Jan 2020 19:14
zaph0d
lol I've got an old toshiba sat p30 with a 3.3ghz p4 under the hood too

Clearly better made than the Dell I was thinking of :)
Posted by zaph0d - Thu 02 Jan 2020 19:44
No idea if it still works - it's sat in a cuboard for the last 10 years lol
Posted by FRISH - Thu 02 Jan 2020 20:17
Sounds like it's going to be a rough year for intel.
Posted by Xlucine - Fri 03 Jan 2020 13:06
In fairness, the base TDP is not that different to what the 9900K actually consumed when boosting

PMMEASURES
Hmm true, that said it dawned on me though we talking 5% over 10 Core's so 5%/10 = 0.5% per core ouch sounds worse and if there is a Mhz up lift then ouch that might be a negative % on IPC per core. just all the gain from clocking and increased cores. :-/

The improvements multiply, not add, so it's still 5% per core (which could just be a ~200 MHz speed boost)