Everything You Need to Know About Intel's New 11th Gen H45 Tiger Lake-H Processor
Intel has just fully revealed their new mobile series 11th Gen processors, code name Tiger Lake-H. The processors are based on the 10nm architecture. Intel states that the processor is a significant improvement regarding performance; it also has a few new breakout features. The company boasted that the new 11th Gen Core H-Series Tiger Lake-H processor would appear in thin form factor laptops, alongside discrete GeForce RTX 30 series Nvidia graphic chip.
In the early version of Tiger Lake-H, Intel demonstrated their new-gen mobile chip using an H35 processor, the Core i7-11375H Special Edition. The processor has a 35W power consumption while having four cores 8-threads on a single chip, with turbo clocks in upwards of 5GHz, supporting the latest PCIe 4.0 technology. The goal is to embed this processor into thin form factor gaming laptops. Today, Intel refreshes a whole new mobile CPU lineup with a greater emphasis on power and performance. The new Tiger Lake H45 processor now has 8-physical cores and 16-threads. The Tiger Lake H processor now offers a significant improvement in performance by 19% in multi-threaded operations. The processor also supports DDR4 RAM speeds up to 3200MHz, and featuring a much higher performing Xe-graphics engine.
The Tiger Lake-H platform will feature the latest IO and connectivity, consisting of a Killer Wi-Fi 6/ 6E chip, Thunderbolt 4, and full support for the Resizable Bar technology. Tiger Lake-H will also add 20 configurable PCI Express 4.0 lanes from X4 to X6 and be attached directly to the processor. The latter configuration will offer added bandwidth explicitly for the discrete GPU while enabling PCIe 4.0 for NVMe storage drive with Raid configuration, a first for a mobile system. There will be 24 additional Gen 3 PCIe lanes available through PCH.
There will also be several consumer and commercial Tiger Lake-H series processors expected to be released soon. The Core i9-11980HK is the top-end consumer SKU, with 8-cores and 16-threads, a 2.6GHz base clock, and a 5GHz maximum turbo clock. Fully unlocked and overclockable, thanks in part to Intel's XTU utility. The Core i5-1126H is the lowest end processor featuring 6-cores and 12-threads. The commercial CPU variants almost mirror the consumer CPUs, similar to the higher-end models.
Intel has released several comparisons to the 10th Gen Core processors, and AMD's highly praised 5000 series mobile processors. Against the 10th Gen Core H, there is a significant improvement in performance tested on several video games. Regarding performance, compared to Ryzen 9 5900HX, using the same gaming titles, Intel claims superior performance in a single thread operation.
Performance gains and new features implemented into the 11th Gen Tiger Lake-H make this an impressive processor on paper. Clearly, the whole premise here is to compete against AMD’s Ryzen 5000 and Apple’s own ARM-based M1 mobile processors. Both processors are highly praised within the tech community for their performance. Will Tiger Lake-H earn the same positive praises? We shall see.
