While both AMD and NVIDIA’s next-generation GPUs are rumored to be equally as power hungry as the current generation, RNDA 3 products will reportedly have an edge in performance and efficiency over green team’s Lovelace-based GeForce RTX 40 Series for reasons such as the competition’s adherence to a traditional, monolithic design. According to the latest rumors from various insiders, the Radeon RX 7000 Series is expected to boast a greater level of power efficiency thanks to major developments that include a multi-chip module (MCM) design. Intel also announced its Tiger Lake-H commercial processors, both Core and Xeon, which use the secure, managed vPro chipset.AMD’s next generation of Radeon RX graphics cards will be powered by the third generation of its rapidly evolving GPU microarchitecture, RDNA 3. These CPUs are intended for use in laptops with discrete graphics, so that paucity of EUs can be a minor, if irritating, drawback. That's because one of Intel's requirements for it to carry the Iris Xe brand is at least 80 execution units and these H series chips only have 32 EUs. Intel has stressed that the integrated GPU uses its latest Xe graphics architecture, but as with its desktop 11th-gen (Rocket Lake-S) CPUs chose to brand it with the old, old UHD Graphics nomenclature. There are commonalities across all the CPUs, including integrated Intel UHD Graphics. The i7 and i9 carry on Intel's incorporation of Turbo Boost 3, notable for its automatic selection of the fastest and most reliable core to boost to the max for single-threaded operations. Just because the processor and chipset support these capabilities doesn't mean you'll see them in all laptops some of them, such as implementing PCIe Gen 4, are subject to individual manufacturers' preferences and product-line strategies. So speedier storage in larger capacities. (It's similar to AMD Smart Access Memory, which debuted with the Radeon RX 6000 series desktop cards in October 2019.) It also lets manufacturers incorporate bootable SSD RAID arrays using Intel's Rapid Storage Technology. That means it takes less time to move the graphics data for rendering out to the display, and can eke out some extra graphics performance. One is Resizeable BAR, which allows the system to allocate an optimal amount of video memory for the CPU to use for graphics operations not otherwise run on the GPU. That's where Intel debuted the Tiger Lake-H architecture and related process, which (in conjunction with the 500-series chipset) adds support for Thunderbolt 4, Killer Wi-Fi 6E/Gig+, DDR4-3200 memory, dual built-in displays, Optane H20 and 20 lanes of PCIe Gen 4.īecause the Gen 4 allows direct connection to the CPU rather than using a separate bus, it brings with it a couple of notable capabilities for power users.
If it weren't for the ancillary technologies that come with Intel's latest round of Tiger Lake Core H-series CPUs, today's 11th-gen launch could seem like kind of a snoozefest. Razer's Blade 15 Advanced bumps the line up to incorporate Core i9 with the new i9-11900H.