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uzzi38

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Seems the nominal TDP for Tiger-U is going to be 28 W. Also Gen12 has AV1 decode which is nice.
That has taken a lot of wind out of my sails in the base clocks.

Ugh I was honestly starting to think TGL would completely supercede AMD in clock/w this year and that next year would be a close race as well (which would have meant Intel would be walking all over AMD in power efficiency with Tiger Lake vs Renoir when comparing 4c vs 4c).

No matter. The increase in base clocks is still really noteworthy and still pretty darn good being 500mhz higher than the base clock of the 1068G7. Couple on some smaller IPC gains - even just 5% or so and TGL-U should still be a pretty nice uplift gen-on-gen.
 

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That has taken a lot of wind out of my sails in the base clocks.

Ugh I was honestly starting to think TGL would completely supercede AMD in clock/w this year and that next year would be a close race as well (which would have meant Intel would be walking all over AMD in power efficiency with Tiger Lake vs Renoir when comparing 4c vs 4c).

No matter. The increase in base clocks is still really noteworthy and still pretty darn good being 500mhz higher than the base clock of the 1068G7. Couple on some smaller IPC gains - even just 5% or so and TGL-U should still be a pretty nice uplift gen-on-gen.

At least it's not 35 W.
 

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This could explain the high base clock for the final SKUs. I wonder how it's working when the CPU is set to TDP down 15W, will the base clock change in this case? Intel must be confident they can go really high on clock speeds, otherwise a default 28W TDP doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And of course, this is not confirmed.
 

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This could explain the high base clock for the final SKUs. I wonder how it's working when the CPU is set to TDP down 15W, will the base clock change in this case? Intel must be confident they can go really high on clock speeds, otherwise a default 28W TDP doesn't make a lot of sense to me. And of course, this is not confirmed.
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If a laptop is TDP-downed to 15W then of course the standard base clock won't apply. Sustained clocks in a workload that can actually fully utilise the CPU core (without AVX512 instructions) will very likely be lower than 2.8GHz.

Weird alternative theory (I'm throwing things out there just for the sake of it if I'm honest), couldn't it also be because they're trying to ensure the iGPU has ample power budget? Take Renoir for example, to ensure max clock rates on the Vega 8 iGPU Renoir requires approximately 15W (the full SoC will use closer to 20W, but some of that still needs to be for I/O and the small portion of the CPU being utilised). Or alternatively like Coffee Lake-U. Much larger iGPU, and 28W to ensure that iGPU had the power budget to stretch its legs in a standard configuration.
 
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By the way their Xe presentation from GDC isn't online yet despite Intels claim it would come out in waves through March and April. This is the result, we get half baked and half wrong leaks which I think is not good for Intel because obviously some of the stuff is wrong or contains outdated infos. I bet we will get the full specs from certain leaks before Intels revealing. When Intel reveals Tigerlake/Xe, they can't surprise us anymore because we knew everything from leaks.
 
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You won't get full architectural coverage from leaks.

But a lot of other news and bits! We have seen the first examples recently. I would prefer to hear from Intel exclusively about the new features like AV1 decoding or a first performance snapshoot etc. but looks like Intel is waiting for the leaks.
 

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But a lot of other news and bits! We have seen the first examples recently. I would prefer to hear from Intel exclusively about the new features like AV1 decoding or a first performance snapshoot etc. but looks like Intel is waiting for the leaks.

These leaks could mean we're not that far off from official unveiling. Perhaps we'll see it in June even without Computex?
 
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Scheduling seems to be similar to Icelake last year +- 1 month. In the middle of August there is a presentation of Tigerlake mobile during the Hot Chips event, also there is a GDC digital event scheduled for August 4-6.
 

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These leaks could mean we're not that far off from official unveiling. Perhaps we'll see it in June even without Computex?

I would think the launch would have to be before Apple's WWDC (which starts on June 22nd), if only for Shareholder PR purposes over the Apple to ARM talk.
 

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Actually Bob Swan himself said it'll debut middle of this year.

No matter. The increase in base clocks is still really noteworthy and still pretty darn good being 500mhz higher than the base clock of the 1068G7. Couple on some smaller IPC gains - even just 5% or so and TGL-U should still be a pretty nice uplift gen-on-gen.

700MHz if you count the 3GHz chip.

But the 28W ICL parts are useless.


The Surface Laptop 3 with 1065G7 set at 25W outperforms it in graphics. The CPU is maybe 5% faster in sustained.

All that and released 7 months later. It's almost like Apple is purposely making it crap since they'll abandon it for ARM next year. What's the point of exclusivity then?
 
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Rocketlake PL2 by Sharkbay: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-alder-lake-s-rumored-to-support-ddr5-memory

8C/6C
-PL1: 95W
-PL2: 251/173W
-Tau 56s

8C/6C/4C
-PL1: 80W
-PL2: 251W/191W/146W
-Tau 28s

8C/6C/4C
-PL1: 65W
-PL2: 251W/177W/128W
-Tau 28s

This explains why Rocketlake only has 8 cores. Potentially 25% faster per clock, but with 25% core count difference.
I suspected this. Yeah, this backport is going to need all the juice it can get. Unfortunately, this is the best 14nm can offer at the moment.
 

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Rocketlake PL2 by Sharkbay: https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-alder-lake-s-rumored-to-support-ddr5-memory

8C/6C
-PL1: 95W
-PL2: 251/173W
-Tau 56s

8C/6C/4C
-PL1: 80W
-PL2: 251W/191W/146W
-Tau 28s

8C/6C/4C
-PL1: 65W
-PL2: 251W/177W/128W
-Tau 28s

This explains why Rocketlake only has 8 cores. Potentially 25% faster per clock, but with 25% core count difference.
Just one thing. With SNC's cache layout I don't think we'll see it at 25% higher perf per core.

And this ties in a little with something Sharkbay has said in the past - that Rocket Lake won't have an i9 version. Only up to an i7.

Makes sense because there probably will be a small deficit in multithreaded performance, so marketing another i9 SKU would be difficult.
 

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Just one thing. With SNC's cache layout I don't think we'll see it at 25% higher perf per core.

And this ties in a little with something Sharkbay has said in the past - that Rocket Lake won't have an i9 version. Only up to an i7.

Makes sense because there probably will be a small deficit in multithreaded performance, so marketing another i9 SKU would be difficult.

Multicore deficit or not, I doubt marketing will them get away with a "regression" to the i7 branding. They've already oriented their marketing around low core count loads, since AMD demolishes them in multicore, so it shouldn't be that hard to double down.

Also, where is this 25% number coming from? Even for Willow Cove, that number doesn't really seem supported anywhere.
 
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Also, where is this 25% number coming from? Even for Willow Cove, that number doesn't really seem supported anywhere.
Sunnycove is already 18% ahead of Coffee Lake, clock for clock. Some believe, based on some GB scores, that Willowcove is another 5% or so higher than Sunnycove. If this pans out, Rocket Lake still needs to bring all Willowcove's performance, plus it must clock to 5GHz for that 25% to hold.
 

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If this pans out, Rocket Lake still needs to bring all Willowcove's performance, plus it must clock to 5GHz for that 25% to hold.

It probably won't change things either way. Cometlake is already a lost cause in very parallel applications.

But in other applications it may turn out even better. Lots of multithreaded applications where core scaling is poor. Also the new uarch will bring gains in the areas Skylake is weak in.

Games are going to love the new uarch as they always do. If you see GN tests, they scale poorly with clocks, and worse with cores. Just 20% gain there will wreck most chips even at 4.5GHz.
 
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