[Hardware] Intel Tiger Lake High-Performance 10nm CPUs With 8 Cores & 16 Threads Launching Next Year, Will Compete With AMD’s Cezanne-H Lineup

[Hossam Taibi]

 

Intel has confirmed that they will be introducing next-generation & high-performance 10nm Tiger Lake CPUs with up to 8 cores and 16 threads in 2021. The information was revealed by Intel's CVP (Corporate Vice President) of Client Computing Group, Boyd Phelps, on Medium.

Intel Confirms 10nm Tiger Lake High-Performance CPUs With 8 Cores & 16 Threads For 2021

Talking about the higher cache which Intel's Tiger Lake CPUs based on the Willow Cove architecture has to offer, Boyd revealed that consumers can expect up to 24 MB of cache with 8 core die configs which will be available on a later date. Intel's initial Tiger Lake lineup launched under the 11th Gen U-series segment and offers up to 4 cores and 8 threads for a total of up to 12 MB of L3 cache and Tiger Lake-H which debuts next year is essentially going to double that to 24 MB of L3 cache with its doubled core and thread count.

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In addition to the official confirmation, SharkBay from PTT Forums has revealed some more info on the various SKUs that will be available under the Tiger Lake-H family. It looks like Tiger Lake-H could be split between two platforms with different sockets. The standard Tiger Lake-H chips with 4 cores and 35W TDPs will stick with the BGA1449 socket which is the same as Tiger Lake-U chips while the more premium offerings will feature the BGA1787 socket and feature up to 8 core variants with 45 Watt TDPs of the Intel Tiger Lake lineup.

The interesting part is that the 35W variants will feature a 96 EU Iris Xe integrated GPU while the 45 Watt SKUs will feature just 32 EUs on their Xe GPU. The 45W variants will come in 4 core, 6 core and 8 core variants with higher frequencies than their BGA1449 siblings.

Intel Tiger Lake-H vs AMD Ryzen H-Series High-Performance CPU Comparisons:

CPU Family Name	Intel Tiger Lake-H	AMD Renoir H-Series	AMD Cezanne-H Series
Family Branding	Intel 11th Gen Core (H-series)	AMD Ryzen 4000 (H-Series)	AMD Ryzen 5000 (H-Series)
Process Node	10nm	7nm	7nm+
CPU Core Architecture	Willow Cove	Zen 2	Zen 3
CPU Cores/Threads (Max)	8/16	8/16	8/16
L2 Cache (Max)	10 MB	4 MB	TBD
L3 Cache (Max)	24 MB	8 MB	TBD
Max CPU Clocks	TBD	4.3 GHz (Ryzen 9 4900HS)	TBD
GPU Core Architecture	Xe Graphics Engine	Vega Enhanced 7nm	Vega Enhanced 7nm
Max GPU Cores	96 EUs (768 cores)?	8 CUs (512 cores)	8 CUs (512 cores)?
Max GPU Clocks	TBD	1750 MHz	TBD
TDP (cTDP Down/Up)	35W (65W cTDP)	35W (45W cTDP)	35W (45W cTDP)
Launch	Q1 2021	Q2 2020	Q2 2021?

The high-performance 10nm Intel Tiger Lake-H lineup would consist of up to 8 core and 16 thread chips based on the new Willow Cove architecture. The CPUs would carry up to 34 MB of cache that's 24 MB L3 (3 MB L3 per core) and 10 MB L2 (1.25 MB per core). Tiger Lake CPUs will come with an asymmetrical 48/32 KB L1 cache and will fully support AVX2 & AVX-512 instructions. Tiger Lake-H CPUs would additionally feature Two-Level Memory (2LM) and SGX (Software Guard Extensions). Intel's Tiger Lake-H family would support DDR4 speeds up to 3200 MHz.

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Intel's Tiger Lake-H will be launching close to AMD's Cezanne-H family which is expected to feature the Zen 3 (7nm+) cores with incremental IPC gains and a slew of other features which are yet to be showcased.

Intel Desktop CPU Generations Comparison:

Intel CPU Family	Processor Process	Processors Cores (Max)	TDPs	Platform Chipset	Platform	Memory Support	PCIe Support	Launch
Sandy Bridge	32nm	4/8	35-95W	6-Series	LGA 1155	DDR3	PCIe Gen 2.0	2011
Ivy Bridge	22nm	4/8	35-77W	7-Series	LGA 1155	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2012
Haswell	22nm	4/8	35-84W	8-Series	LGA 1150	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2013-2014
Broadwell	14nm	4/8	65-65W	9-Series	LGA 1150	DDR3	PCIe Gen 3.0	2015
Skylake	14nm	4/8	35-91W	100-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4/DDR3L	PCIe Gen 3.0	2015
Kaby Lake	14nm	4/8	35-91W	200-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4/DDR3L	PCIe Gen 3.0	2017
Coffee Lake	14nm	6/12	35-95W	300-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2017
Coffee Lake	14nm	8/16	35-95W	300-Series	LGA 1151	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2018
Comet Lake	14nm	10/20	35-125W	400-Series	LGA 1200	DDR4	PCIe Gen 3.0	2020
Rocket Lake	14nm	8/16?	TBA	400/500-Series?	LGA 1200	DDR4	PCIe Gen 4.0	2020
Alder Lake	10nm?	16/32?	TBA	TBA	LGA 1700	DDR5	PCIe Gen 4.0?	2021
Meteor Lake	7nm?	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	DDR5	PCIe Gen 4.0?	2022?

We can expect more details on Intel's Tiger Lake-H CPUs at CES 2021 (Digital Only Event) while the Rocket Lake mobility CPUs would gradually be introduced down the line after Intel releases its Tiger Lake CPU lineup in September.