FearLess Posted April 2, 2020 Posted April 2, 2020 Intel has finally officially announced its 10th Generation H-series mobile CPUs. Yes, I'll admit, it's tough to get too excited about that given that we've known that these higher performance Comet Lake chips were coming for some time. Thanks to several impressively accurate leaks, some in the past few days, we've already told you everything about the new Intel gaming laptop chips, everything that has finally been made official today. The crux of the matter is that this is another outing for Intel's ageing 14nm++ production process, which means that there isn't the level of innovation on show that you might find from a new architecture. Say, from a new AMD Ryzen Mobile chip. What you do get, however, is an existing process that can be pushed to the limit. In this case, we're talking about pushing the frequency as hard as it will go. The headline figure here comes from the top of the range CPU, the 8-core/16-thread Core i9 10980HK, which claims a top operating frequency of 5.3GHz. It isn't alone though, there are six chips being launched and four of them have a single-core turbo of 5GHz or above. There's an important thing to consider in all of this though, and as we highlighted when we first heard about the Core i9 10980HK, it's all well and good having a potential max turbo that high, but if the thermals of your laptop of choice can't maintain such speeds for any length of time, then it's a figure that holds little weight.
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