Over the last few days, intel released their 10th generation lineup of CPU’s. They introduced ice lake a few days ago which is the first time we have mass production of their 10nm CPU's. In case you didn’t know, back in 2018 they released some 10nm chips under the Canon lake moniker but it was at really low volume and super low performance. Anyways, the 10th generation Ice lake made its first appearance and most of the outlets covering it had mixed responses. The 10nm chips IPC was great but the clocks were pretty low making them not much faster than the 9th gen family.
So what does Intel do? Why not go back to 14nm and release more of those ! And here we are with intel adding 8 new-ish 14nm +++ comet lake processors to the same 10th gen lineup. If you want a breakdown of how confusing intel’s naming scheme is for this gen’s lineup and how absurd this family is, Click up here for a hardwarecanucks video on it.
Personally, I think Intel is just trying to do what it can without losing face. Don't get me wrong, the naming scheme is absolutely a problem and will lead to a lot of confusion for the customers, but if we just look at the lineup itself, here is where intel stands.
First, Their ice lake chips have great IPC, but they cant clock high enough to make a difference.
Second, they consume way too much power compared to the 14nm chips. I mean you can get 6 cores 12 threads at much higher clocks for almost half the consumption.
Third, it looks like intel might be trying to force ice lake onto us by only allowing gen11 graphics to their ice lake chips. Comet lake only gets intel’s UHD which means new features like Integer scaling and the added performance in gen11 is locked into Ice Lake. Now there might be other reasons for that like gen11 was built on 10nm and can't get ported over to 14 but still. Intel should have thought about that. Plus, Ice lake also gets UHD graphics so why was that design ported over.
Anyways, it looks like intel has serious issues at 10nm and I now clearly understand why we won't see in on our desktops until 2022.
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