The official presentation of
Intel Tiger Lake CPUs, the new 11th generation Intel mobile processors, confirmed most of the rumors that have emerged in recent weeks, putting us in front of a series that does not increase the number of cores compared to the previous one. However, it pushes the accelerator pedal on gaming, with
the new Intel Xe architecture that promises a decidedly important performance leap.
Frequencies are also raised, with the only Core i3 model with 2 cores and 4 threads that it reaches a maximum of 3.9 GHz against the 3.4 GHz of the more stringent equivalent of the previous series. The flagship model, on the other hand, reaches a clock
of up to 4.8 GHz, reaching a remarkable milestone for a low-consumption mobile processor that promises a significant increase in the ratio between consumption and power thanks to new transistors and assorted optimizations.
In balance between performance and portability
With the arrival this month of the first devices equipped with Tiger Lake, the era of Ice Lake processors ends, already made with 10 nanometer transistors but lacking features like Thunderbolt 4 and PCIe 4.0, which instead fall within the technologies of the new CPUs, obviously also equipped with integrated Wi-Fi 6. All advantages, such as the ability to connect multiple 4K 60Hz panels through the new Thunderbolt port, which we will find in devices such as the
Samsung Galaxy Book Flex 5G and the ASUS Expertbook 14 which, together with the new ACER laptops, Dell,
Lenovo HP and Dynabook, among the first to arrive, focus on ultra-portable dimensions as well as low weight, as in the case of the 860 grams of the Portege X30W. All made more attractive by the promise of an important leap in performance that takes on even greater importance in the case of Chromebooks, which until now have been linked to much more limited processors than those of the Intel Core families.
