Impressions from Intel’s Tiger Lake laptop CPU launch event

Enlarge / Intel shows off its platform work on motherboard miniaturization-which is key to modern, sleek, ultrathin designs that won't allow stacking components on top of the board anymore. (credit: Intel)

Intel held a launch event today for its next-generation laptop CPU family, codenamed Tiger Lake. There wasn't much new information about Tiger Lake itself, though-if you followed our coverage of Intel Architecture Day last month, you already know most of the technical detail covered at today's event.

Intel's story on the raw performance of Tiger Lake today holds constant with both what the company announced at Architecture Day, and what the leaked i7-1185G7 benchmarks implied-significantly higher performance from the i7-1185G7 than from AMD's Ryzen 7 4800U, in both CPU and GPU performance.

Taking direct aim at Renoir

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  Intel took very specific aim at a clearly named target today: the Ryzen 7 4800U. [credit: Intel ]

We did see considerably more direct discussion of that competitive performance, however, with some pretty compelling side-by-side video of gaming, Adobe Premiere, and other tasks to back up Intel's claims of market performance leadership with the upcoming parts. Of course, Intel has more angles to play here than raw hardware performance-the company has software partnerships with vendors like Adobe to make certain that its proprietary "value-added" features like Deep Learning Boost (aka AVX-512) are leveraged by those vendors.

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