{"id":363086,"date":"2020-08-07T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T06:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=363086"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T13:36:51","slug":"intel-11th-gen-cpu-launch-date-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/363086-intel-11th-gen-cpu-launch-date-revealed.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel 11th-gen CPU launch date revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has accidentally confirmed that its next-generation Tiger Lake mobile processors will launch at the beginning of next month.<\/p>\n<p>The company published &#8220;Tiger Lake Virtual Launch Event&#8221; on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intc.com\/investor-relations\/events-and-presentations\/events-calendar\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>events calendar<\/strong><\/a> as an entry for 2 September.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same date that Intel previously said would be host to its &#8220;Something Big&#8221; event, which had been rumoured to be a virtual launch for its Tiger Lake products.<\/p>\n<p>The 11th-generation Tiger Lake processor range was first showcased at CES 2020 and is expected to be a significant improvement on the current 10th-generation Ice Lake processors.<\/p>\n<p>Tiger Lake processors will be available for laptops and gaming notebooks, while an 11th-generation desktop processor Rocket Lake is unlikely to be launched this year.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Leaked benchmarks<\/h3>\n<p>Leaker <strong><a class=\"hawk-link-parsed\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TUM_APISAK\/status\/1289883590872842241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-original-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TUM_APISAK\/status\/1289883590872842241\" data-component-tracked=\"1\">TUMAPISAK<\/a><\/strong> provided benchmark results which show the Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 easily beating the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U in terms of single-threaded performance.<\/p>\n<p>In PassMark Performance Testing, the Intel processor scored 3,273 for single-thread performance, while the AMD processor scored 2,631.<\/p>\n<p>In other areas, the Ryzen 4800U comfortably beat the i7-1165G7 &#8211; although this is to be expected considering the former has twice the cores and threads.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting, however, that these results are not necessarily reliable. This is based on two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, they are leaked, and therefore their integrity cannot be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, since the results are taken from a single sample, any issues with this specific unit will affect the results substantially.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Rocket Lake leak<\/h3>\n<p>A processor from Intel\u2019s upcoming 11th-generation Rocket Lake-S range of CPUs has also <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/354983-intel-11th-gen-cpu-benchmark-leaked-impressive-clock-speeds.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>reportedly<\/strong><\/a> been benchmarked.<\/p>\n<p>The leaker said the Rocket Lake-S CPU he allegedly tested uses 8 cores and 16 threads.<\/p>\n<p>It reportedly sports a 3.2GHz base clock and a 4.3GHz boost clock, although he did not provide its TDP or manufacturing process.<\/p>\n<p>This chip was reportedly tested using both 3DMark Fire Strike and Time Spy.<\/p>\n<p>In the Fire Strike test, it scored the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall score:\u00a0<strong>1,746<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Graphics score:\u00a0<strong>1,895<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Physics score:\u00a0<strong>18,989<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Combined score:\u00a0<strong>592<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Time Spy test yielded the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall score:\u00a0<strong>605<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>CPU score:\u00a0<strong>4,963<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Graphics score:\u00a0<strong>524<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results are surprisingly weak, considering they place the processor in a similar category to the Intel Core i7 7700K.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is worth noting that this is still an early sample and is likely to improve substantially before it is released.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/362504-microsoft-surface-to-take-on-apple-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Microsoft Surface to take on Apple in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has accidentally confirmed that its next-generation Tiger Lake mobile processors will launch on 2 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":291188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[45322,131,66086,66084],"class_list":["post-363086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-ice-lake","tag-intel","tag-rocket-lake","tag-tiger-lake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363086"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363094,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363086\/revisions\/363094"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}