Yesterday, Intel announced the launch of its newest laptop CPUs, the tenth generation Comet Lake H-series. If you’re not up on all the minutiae of CPU naming schemes. H-series parts are specialty high-performance parts with much higher thermal design power than the standard U-series, and they’re usually deployed in systems with higher-powered, discrete graphics.
The big news Intel is pushing on the tenth series Comet Lake H-series is their high turbo clock rate. All of the i7 SKUs, as well as the lone i9, are capable of breaking 5GHz on the high end of their turbo clock rate.
Most consumers would define the “fastest” processor in terms of real performance.time to complete benchmarks, frames per second achieved in AAA gaming titles, and so forth.
- While it’s certainly true that the 5.3GHz turbo claimed here for the i9-10980HK—or even the 5GHz claimed for the lowest-tier i7, the i7-10750H—are higher maximum clock speeds than we’ve seen out of the factory until now,
- it strikes us as likely that many users may not achieve clock rates quite that high—or be able to keep them there for very long.
The good
- Definitely faster than January 2017 models
- Crazy-high turbo speeds, serious overclocking technology
- AX201 Wi-Fi 6 support
- Thunderbolt 3 support
- DDR4-2933 RAM, up to 128GB
