Intel Details their 10nm Ice Lake Architecture - 18% IPC Boost over Skylake

[WYP]

Intel isn't taking AMD's Zen 2 news lying down.



Read more about Intel's 10nm Ice Lake processors.

 

[g0ggles1994]

Key here is that they're calling an 18% boost over Skylake, not mentioning Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake; so in reality, this boost will be a lot lower.

Also, no mention of vulnerability mitigations within the silicon? Hmmm.

 

[AlienALX]

Lmao I seriously read that as "condemned Ice Lake"

 

[grec]

Key here is that they're calling an 18% boost over Skylake, not mentioning Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake; so in reality, this boost will be a lot lower.

Also, no mention of vulnerability mitigations within the silicon? Hmmm.

I think they mean "Skylake" as in the architecture, going from their image, so that would include Kaby & Coffee lake as they were still both Skylake arch with no IPC gains/difference.

 

[WYP]

I think they mean "Skylake" as in the architecture, going from their image, so that would include Kaby & Coffee lake as they were still both Skylake arch with no IPC gains/difference.

^this

 

[NeverBackDown]

They might sell more as Laptops outsell Desktops, but the margins probably won't be as high. I still feel like AMD wins this round tbh.

 

[looz]

I'm expecting Intel to also implement their own XFR which can basically max out a chip with no room for overclocking. Not sure if that AI mumbo jumbo is related or simply optimisations for neural networks.

 

[DAOWAce]

But will that "18%" be before or after all the security holes are patched?

Because that's one of the major benefits for AMD right now: They didn't design their CPUs in horribly insecure ways to boost performance.

That said, if Intel is actually providing an 18% IPC improvement over "Skylake", which HOPEFULLY includes their refreshes of it (doubting heavily), then that might still warrant staying with Intel for us folk who demand the best performance possible.

I have little faith in Intel nowadays regardless.