Today, Intel officially launches its 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors featuring a brand new CPU and GPU architecture.
Today, Intel officially launches its 11th Generation Tiger Lake processors featuring a brand new CPU and GPU architecture. The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs are based on the company’s latest 10nm++ process node which offers improved performance efficiency than 10th Gen Ice Lake processors. The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs will be branded under the 11th Generation Core family branding. There have been several leaks regarding the family but today is the day that Intel finally unveils it all for the public. The Intel Tiger Lake 11th Generation CPUs are focused on the mobility space and also adopt an entirely brand new look and feel. There is a lot to talk about so let’s get started. Marvel’s Avengers Is the First AAA Game to Feature Intel Specific Optimizations on PC A few highlights of today’s launch (via Intel): The Intel Tiger Lake CPUs are based on the 10nm++ process node and feature the company’s latest Willow Cove cores. The Willow Cove core architecture is based on the same foundations as the last generation Sunny Cove architecture. It can be seen as a refinement of Sunny Cove in all of the ways possible but at the same time, Willow Cove cores also feature a redesigned chip hierarchy for faster performance throughput. The 10nm++ process node is being termed by Intel as the 10nm SuperFin transistor design. Intel itself claims that the SuperFin process delivers the same uplift in performance as a proper node shrink. The SuperFin design leverages the FinFET architecture by delivering an improved gate process, additional gate pitch, and enhanced expiation source/drain. In addition to the SuperFin design, there’s also the SuperMIM capacitors which deliver an increment of 5x to the MIM (metal-insulator-metal) capacitance and reduce the overall capacitor resistance by 30%. Intel also points out that its SuperFin and SuperMIM design is an essential technology to uplift performance & add innovations such as enhanced interconnects for data centers. It is likely that Intel’s Ice Lake-SP is going to use a similar fabrication process to deliver higher throughput. Intel Iris Xe GPU Spotted With An Impressive 1650 MHz Overclock, Launching With Tiger Lake CPUs This Week Intel stated that it had achieved around 17-18% performance uplift over the standard 10nm process node featured on 10th Generation Ice Lake chips while delivering much faster frequencies. Now that’s a huge claim, one that can only be tested when the actual CPU is in the hands of testers but this more or less points out that Intel is confident that its 10nm process will be able to match or even exceed TSMC’s 7nm process node which is used on the competing AMD Ryzen 4000 ‘Renoir’ APUs. The next two key technologies for Intel’s Tiger Lake processors are its CPU & GPU core technologies which are powered by Willow Cove and Xe. The Intel Willow Cove architecture is the second newest architecture based on the 10nm process node with the first one being Sunny Cove for Ice Lake CPU generation. The Willow Cove cores are expected to deliver a double-digit IPC gain over Sunny Cove cores.
