Discussion Intel current and future Lakes & Rapids thread

[mikk]

Intel TigerLake Y LPDDR4x
Intel 0000
U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 1.2 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg)
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18845127


CPU scores are not that bad if this is TGL-Y early ES.

 

[Ajay]

Intel TigerLake Y LPDDR4x
Intel 0000
U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 1.2 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg)
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18845127


CPU scores are not that bad if this is TGL-Y early ES.

Hmm, some sort of oddity

CPU throttled at 83% by Windows

 

[Dayman1225]

Intel TigerLake Y LPDDR4x
Intel 0000
U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 1.2 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg)
https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/18845127


CPU scores are not that bad if this is TGL-Y early ES.

Was sort of hoping for TGL to support LPDDR5. Guess not Alder then.

 

[mikk]

Hmm, some sort of oddity

What do you mean? Compared to some other mobile CPUs this is a usual setting.

Was sort of hoping for TGL to support LPDDR5. Guess not Alder then.

You can't see from this entry if it supports LPDDR5. This ES is running on LPDDR4x and if it supports more or less, we don't know.

 

[Dayman1225]

You can't see from this entry if it supports LPDDR5. This ES is running on LPDDR4x and if it supports more or less, we don't know.

Fair enough!

 

[cbn]

In their Q&A, Intel said the GPGPUs are interesting for process nodes. The redundancy that's offered by the GPGPU allows them to work even early in the process node cycle, and they've compared that contrary to a CPU. And that's why the GPGPU is the lead product for 7nm, and why the server CPU will come later.

So even if they have issues in 10nm, per mm2 their dGPU might be easier to produce than their server CPU.

The redundancy plus the fact they are using chiplets (via Foveros and EMIB) should let them make a relatively high amount of high end dGPGPUs.

Boosted cache size as well?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0141933116000053

To achieve higher performance and energy efficiency, GPGPU architectures have recently begun to employ hardware caches. Adding caches to GPGPUs, however, does not always guarantee improved performance and energy efficiency due to the thrashing in small caches shared by thousands of threads.

 

[mikk]

Was sort of hoping for TGL to support LPDDR5. Guess not Alder then.

Fair enough!

According to sharkbay TGL supports DDR4, LPDDR4x, LPDDR5.

 

[Dayman1225]

According to sharkbay TGL supports DDR4, LPDDR4x, LPDDR5.

Link/Source?

 

[mikk]

Link/Source?

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/PC_Shopping/M.1558455417.A.A40.html

 

[Dayman1225]

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/PC_Shopping/M.1558455417.A.A40.html

Cheers!

 

[trivik12]

https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/PC_Shopping/M.1558455417.A.A40.html

What on earth does that mean. Is it product listed for sale or just a forum post?

 

[itsmydamnation]

Wow intel 10nm clock scaling looks even worse then tmsc 7nm(which has been disappointing) . The knee of the curve also looks like it kicks in a few 100mhz earlier then tmsc 7nm as well.

Maybe they should back port sunny cove to 14nm, but the cores would be massive!

 

[birdie]

Intel has formally launched ICL-U and ICL-Y CPUs:



A better version of this table is posted on Wikipedia.

 

[Bouowmx]

CPU performance is hard to distinguish from Whiskey Lake (i7-1065G7 vs 8565U), will likely come behind Comet Lake (6 cores?).
GPU performance has significant deficit to NVIDIA GeForce MX150, even though G7 has comparable FLOPS and memory bandwidth. (considered the aspects of shared power and mem band)

Welp, I have been hearing positive things concerning Tiger Lake.

 

[ajc9988]

CPU performance is hard to distinguish from Whiskey Lake (i7-1065G7 vs 8565U), will likely come behind Comet Lake (6 cores?).
GPU performance has significant deficit to NVIDIA GeForce MX150, even though G7 has comparable FLOPS and memory bandwidth. (considered the aspects of shared power and mem band)

Welp, I have been hearing positive things concerning Tiger Lake.

You also heard positive things about ice lake. So...

Meanwhile, here is PCWorld looking at ice lake with a less beefy cooling than a Dell.

This was done with a software developer system, so final with OEMs may lift performance somewhat.

 

[birdie]

Some benchmarks from PCWorld:

 

[birdie]

Part 2:

 

[Yotsugi]

The thing would've been pretty good 2 years ago.
Unfortunately, not now.

 

[birdie]

The thing would've been pretty good 2 years ago.
Unfortunately, not now.

But why? Ice Lake U is quite faster than any Ryzen mobile APU in terms of CPU power and has a slightly faster GPU. In MT mode it's quite faster than Whisky Lake while they match one another in ST mode. And you won't have to install and have fun with NVIDIA GPU drivers.

The only question right now is the pricing. Hopefully Ice Lake based laptops will not be substantially more expensive than Whisky Lake based ones.

 

[Yotsugi]

But why?

Because it's meh while not being economical for Intel whatsoever.
Comet-U for volume market is a thing for a reason.

Ice Lake U is quite faster than any Ryzen mobile APU in terms of CPU power and has a slightly faster GPU

Not that hard to beat a slightly dusted off RR, particularly with 50% more bandwidth available.

In MT mode it's quite faster than Whisky Lake while they match one another in ST mode

You're not going to run heavy MT loads on 15W parts.

 

[ajc9988]

But why? Ice Lake U is quite faster than any Ryzen mobile APU in terms of CPU power and has a slightly faster GPU. In MT mode it's quite faster than Whisky Lake while they match one another in ST mode. And you won't have to install and have fun with NVIDIA GPU drivers.

The only question right now is the pricing. Hopefully Ice Lake based laptops will not be substantially more expensive than Whisky Lake based ones.

That compared it to 2000 series APUs, first off, while also not being fully an honest comparison as they had other parts with higher tdp better suited for iGP whereas Intel chose not to create a different category and users mostly the same iGP across the spectrum.

Also, as pointed out, memory capacity and bandwidth available.

Then again, I don't game on items like this. I have a desktop for those purposes. I don't really know many people choosing these to game on. More video watching and basic services.

 

[birdie]

You're not going to run heavy MT loads on 15W parts.

I'm not sure what you mean. Ian ran them successfully.

 

[Yotsugi]

I'm not sure what you mean. Ian ran them successfully.

You being able to run these loads != you are going to do that.

 

[birdie]

You being able to run these loads != you are going to do that.

On my SkyLake U 15W laptop I do run compilation and encoding tasks (I do limit CPU frequency though because my laptop's cooling is far from great and I'm afraid such tasks will kill it). Still don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Abwx]

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But why? Ice Lake U is quite faster than any Ryzen mobile APU in terms of CPU power and has a slightly faster GPU..

Nothing exceptional, perf/watt wise it score 590pts in CB R15 at 15W while a Raven Ridge is at 490 and Picasso at 540 pts or so, that s what you call quite faster..?

GPU wise it s weaker than even Raven Ridge, it s only due to 3733MHz RAM (more than in DTs...) that it can compete with 2400 MHz RAM equipped RR, not sure that it will be competitive with Picasso + 2933 RAM.

On the IPC front Intel s 18% is BS, from PCWorld review we can deduct that in Geekbench 5% of the better "IPC" AVERAGE is brought by AES and AVX2.

In CB R15 ST it is 3% faster clock/clock than SKL and roughly 4% slower than Zen 2, i guess that to get their 18% they also included Quiksync as another IPC provider...