Intel Tiger Lake-H45 released: 8-core 16-thread single-core and multi-core performance soars at the same time

Just tonight, the more powerful Intel Tiger Lake-H45 was officially released. As the name suggests, the default TDP of H45 is 45W, which is one level higher than H35's TDP of 35W. The naming method is finally on par with high-end desktop products. The highest Core i9-11980HK, 8-core 16 thread , the highest optional two cores can be upgraded to 5.0GHz, and finally it has the taste of Core standard pressure high-performance mobile processor.

is in one step, the strongest standard pressure

is different from the conservative positioning of Tiger Lake-H35. Tiger Lake-H45 model spans from Core i5-11260H (6C12T) to Core i9-11980HK (8C16T), which is more like Tiger in performance The complete body of the Lake-H standard pressure processor.

It can be seen from the specification parameter table published by Intel that the Core i9-11980HK (8C16T) with the highest positioning covers a number of intelligent overclocking technologies , and the highest two cores can be upgraded to 5.0GHz through Intel TBM3.0, cTDP It can reach 3.3GHz at 65W.

But obviously this is not the focus of the Core i9-11980HK. At the media communication meeting, Intel engineers said that PL2 can increase the short-term power consumption PL2 of Tiger Lake-H45 to 107W, but there is a stronger Performance PL2 behind it, which can reach A staggering 135W. The specific performance of CPU depends on the positioning and performance tuning of notebook by OEMs. Even so, we can still get a glimpse of Tiger Lake-H45's sturdy performance strategy from such a radical tuning method.

In addition, the entry-level product of Tiger Lake-H45 is Core i5-11260H (6C12T), 45W cTDP 2.1GHz, base frequency 2.6GHz, and the highest frequency is two cores 4.4GHz.

It can be seen that Tiger Lake-H45 spans more diverse scenarios, from 1080p@60FPS thin and light gaming notebook application scenarios below $1,000 to notebooks with a thickness of more than 20mm, but with stronger heat dissipation efficiency and performance Workstations or high-end gaming laptops, running 4K high refresh rate games smoothly, are all covered by Tiger Lake-H45.

While updating the processor, Tiger Lake-H45 also brings a number of new technologies such as PCIe 4.0, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E to the notebook.

So far, there are Thor, Mechanic, Tongfang, Shenzhou, , Xiaomi , etc. OEM manufacturers will launch products based on Tiger Lake-H45, and the target users will cover 1.4 billion gamers, including high-end and hard-core players. There are as many as 300 million, and there are also about 300 million content creators.

The Tiger Lake-H45 launched at the beginning has also expanded to more than 80 models, which is even more spectacular than the more than 30 models launched by the Tiger Lake-H35. Intel also said that in order to ensure sufficient supply of notebooks, they have provided more than 100 Tiger Lake-H45 chips to OEMs several months in advance, so as to achieve a real supply.

Willow Cove architecture highlights the superiority of

Tiger Lake-H45 is based on 0nm SuperFin process, and it is also the first 10nm product under this process that can realize overclocking . With the blessing of the Willow Cove architecture, it can achieve a 19% increase in generation and generation multi-threading performance, and a 12% increase in single-core compared to the previous generation. The

H45 platform provides 20 PCIe 4.0 lanes and 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes on the CPU side, around which OEMs can provide 16+4 discrete graphics and SSD PCIe 4.0 combination, or can pass 8+4+4+4 Realize the combination of independent graphics card and dual SSD.

Through Intel RST technology, the dual SSDs can also form a Raid 0 array, thus providing better data throughput for games.

In terms of connection performance, Tiger Lake-H45 can support up to Wi-Fi 6E, but based on the use of frequency bands, Wi-Fi 6 should be mainly used in China in the future, the difference is that H45 can also be used with famous Killer Wi-Fi, which can further improve the network performance when gaming.

At the same time, the entire Tiger Lake-H45 series will also support Thunderbolt 4, so that a single data line can realize image transmission, power supply, expansion and other content.

On core display , Tiger Lake-H45 provides UHD integrated display with Xe graphics engine, has 32 EUs, and supports AV1 hard decoding. However, it should be noted that UHD is not a high-performance Xe Iris integrated display, but for most notebooks with discrete graphics, this does not have much impact.

Leave enough space for experience

As the first 10nm overclocked standard-pressure mobile processor, Intel has also given enough room for Tiger Lake-H45 to play, providing XTU, Intel Speed ​​Optimizer, Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, etc. 360Hz FHD screen, or 4K 120Hz screen is no problem.

It is worth noting that the Tiger Lake-H45 platform also supports Windows Direct Storage technology, allowing GPU to access information on the SSD faster. In the actual performance of

, it can be seen that under the same TDP setting, the i9-11980HK has a performance improvement of 5%-21%. For example, there is a 21% performance improvement in "Thunder War" and a 15% improvement in "Super Touring Car 2019". It can be seen that the performance improvement between generations is obvious. If

is used to compare with the Ryzen 9 5900HX of a friend, the performance improvement can also reach 20%.

The Core i5-11400H fought back and forth with the Ryzen 9 5900HS.

And Intel also emphasizes its contribution to the optimization of the entire PC ecosystem. For example, in "Total War: Three Kingdoms", "Hitman 3", "Super Touring Car Race", "Jedi Survival" and "Troy", there are shadows of Intel team optimization.

Also in content creation, Tiger Lake-H45 can also give an 18% increase in video processing, a 24% increase in photo processing, and a 19% increase in office productivity workloads. In particular, the Unreal engine rendering and projection creation was completed by pushing a Wacom 4K display and a 4K professional display through a notebook with a thickness of only 18mm, which is very shocking.

Xeon mobile version reports

While bringing the Core series, Tiger Lake-H45 also introduces Intel Xeon W-11000 series mobile workstation processors, including providing ECC memory support, with continued Intel Hardware Shield security mechanism, Intel Total Memory Encryption full memory encryption system, artificial intelligence acceleration, and support for Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 6 and the upcoming Wi-Fi 6E.

Make the notebook feverish to the end.

Tiger Lake-H45 is officially released, which means that this year's high-performance notebook puzzle is basically completed. Tiger Lake-H45 with GeForce RTX graphics card may become one of the dreams of players to update their PC equipment, especially in crazy mining Under the impression of various factors such as limited production capacity, it is also much easier to buy a notebook than to assemble a set of desktop computers.

More importantly, whether it is the CPU or GPU on the notebook, it has been treated with almost desktop performance, just like the Core i9-11980HK, 8C12T, 5GHz, and supports many new devices including Wi-Fi 6E and Thunderbolt 4. technology, and has a wealth of overclocking technology blessings.

Soon, the first batch of more than 80 Tiger Lake-H45 notebooks will be officially released. How do OEMs adjust the Tiger Lake-H45 and the simultaneous listing of the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti, which is quite worth looking forward to. After all, a lot of game masterpieces have been released. Now there is a shortage of a good gaming laptop.