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News Intel reveals eight-core laptop CPU with 5GHz boost and overclocking

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by bit-tech, 23 Apr 2019.

  1. bit-tech

    bit-tech Supreme Overlord Lover of bit-tech Administrator

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  2. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    So what's the catch, 5Ghz in a 8 core unlocked mobile CPU seems to good to be true, there must be a catch.
     
  3. RedFlames

    RedFlames ...is not a Belgian football team

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    Probably either going to be silly money or run hotter than the sun. Possibly both.
     
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  4. Spraduke

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    Or run at 5 Ghz for 1.2 nanoseconds before thermal throttling to essentially the same speed as previous gen.
     
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  5. Mr_Mistoffelees

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    Or, the cooling system will sound like a cordless Dyson on full power.

    Silly money can probably be taken as read.
     
  6. Anfield

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    It is possible to have an 8 core 5ghz Turbo 45W TDP premium price notebook part, we "just" have to stretch the definition of some words to their limit:

    Turbo: Single core, no requirement to be capable of maintaining that clock long term.
    Available: As long as a handful chips pass the extra tight binning process and escape the Fab then it counts as available.
    TDP: Avg under an Intel defined workload that may not be representative of the actual average, much less peak values.
    Premium price: With zero competition in the notebook market they can charge whatever they want.
    Notebook: Includes 5 kilogram 17" bricks and disregards things like user discomfort from loud fans.
     
  7. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    The image in the article doesn't show what the little number 1 caveat is, would be handy to see the footnotes.
     
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  8. edzieba

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    'Turbo Boost' operates like it always has done: clock up when thermal headroom available, clock back down when unavailable. For normal laptop workloads (idling, then do stuff right now, then idle) that works great. If you're using a laptop as a desktop replacement and want to push renders or whatever other sustained loads, then you already know you're going to need a laptop with a beefier cooling system.
    No need to feign ignorance of how every CPU and SoC (including mobile devices) have operated for he last decade.
     
  9. Corky42

    Corky42 Where's walle?

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    It's not feigning ignorance, non tech literate people wouldn't have a clue about the caveats you've just described, they'd see a laptop with a label that says 5Ghz and automatically assume that's better and while it maybe slightly better it's rather misleading to say 5Ghz if that's only available 5-10% of the time or not at all.

    It's a bit like the classic "up to" advertising for broadband or MPG figures that nobody in the real world could ever achieve.
     
  10. Anfield

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    With 504563 models out in the wild no one (beyond a handful of nerds in places like bit-tech) is going to see through the Intel mobile CPU lineup any way;)
     
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