Intel announces 11th Gen H-series 'Willow Cove' mobile processors with 19% gen-over-gen improvement

Intel 11th Gen Chip Explode Source: Intel

What you need to know

Intel has announced its 11th Gen H-series processors for gaming laptops and workstations.
The chips are based on Willow Cove core microarchitecture on 10nm SuperFin.
Over 1 million chips take already shipped, and over 80 laptop designs volition feature them in the coming months.

Similar the dominicus rising in the east, Intel has revealed its highly expected, merely still impressive, 11th Gen H-series of mobile processors (and Xeon too). These beefier processors bring desktop-like performance to enthusiast-level laptops for gaming and powerful workstations for engineers and data scientists.

Boasting the globe's fastest single-threaded processor, these Intel fries characteristic 6 to 8 cores for competitive performance confronting AMD (who nonetheless wins on core count). Based on 'Willow Cove' core microarchitecture on 10nm SuperFin, these chips deliver a quoted "xix% … multithreaded performance comeback" compared to Intel 10th Gen H-series.

Intel 11th Gen Die Intel 11th Gen H-serial dice (close-up). Source: Intel

What'due south new: Intel 11th Gen H-series processors

Willow Cove core microarchitecture on 10nm SuperFin
Up to 5.0Ghz turbo
Overclocking on some SKUs
20 PCIe Gen 4 w/RST bootable RAID0
Up to 44 platform PCIe Lanes
Xe Graphics Architecture (32EU) Intel UHD Graphics
Thunderbolt 4 (40Gbps bandwidth)
Discrete Intel Killer Wi-Fi 6E (Gig+)
Optane H20
IPU6SE Integrated for loftier fidelity MIPI support
Dual eDP integrated for power-optimized Companion Brandish

Interestingly, while the 10th Gen H-series could peak at v.3GHz, the new 11th Gen only goes to v.0GHz. Intel claims that while 5.3GHz was achievable, the new 'Willow Cove' pattern lets them hitting sustained 5.0GHz longer than final gen, giving more real-world do good than previous year's headline-grabbing metric.

The new 11th Gen series is already achieving mass adoption, also. Intel claims it has shipped over one million new chips to its OEM partners, including Acer, Lenovo, Alienware Dell, MSI, Gigabyte, ROG, HP, and Razer. Birthday, Intel expects over 80 laptop designs to feature its about powerful mobile chips.

The SKUs for the chips are similar to concluding year's 10th Gen, but there are some notable advancements. For instance, a few higher-end SKUs are overclockable – a feature common in desktop chips but rare in laptops. The feature allows per-core voltage control, XTU enhancements, and an internal BCLK choice. The characteristic is controlled via the new Intel Speed Optimizer, and it likewise increases multithreaded performance past increasing all core frequencies.

11th Gen Intel Core Consumer Mobile CPUs

Category	i5-11260H	i5-11400H	i7-11800H	i9-11900H	i9-11980HK
Cores	half-dozen	6	eight	8	8
Threads	12	12	xvi	xvi	16
L3 Cache	12M	12M	24M	24M	24M
cTDP Frequency (GHz)	2.1@32W	2.ii@35W	ane.ix@35W	2.one@35W	3.3@65W
Graphics	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD
GPU Base Clock	350MHz	350MHz	350MHz	350MHz	350MHz
GPU Max Clock	one,400MHz	1,450MHz	1,450MHz	1,450MHz	i,450MHz
One-Core Turbo	iv.4GHz	4.5GHz	four.6GHz	4.9GHz	v.0GHz
2-Core Turbo	4.4GHz	four.5GHz	4.6GHz	iv.9GHz	5.0GHz
4-Core Turbo	4.2GHz	iv.3GHz	4.5GHz	4.8GHz	4.9GHz
Half dozen-Cadre Turbo	4.0GHz	4.1GHz	four.4GHz	iv.6GHz	4.7GHz
Viii-Cadre Turbo	NA	NA	4.2GHz	four.4GHz	4.5GHz
vPro	No	No	No	No	No
SIPP	No	No	No	No	No
TXT	No	No	No	No	No

11th Gen Intel Core Commercial Mobile CPUs

Category	i5-11500H	i7-11850H	Westward-11855M	i9-11950H	Due west-11955M
Cores	6	viii	6	8	8
Threads	12	16	12	16	16
L3 Cache	12M	24M	18M	24M	24M
cTDP Frequency (GHz)	2.4@35W	2.ane@35W	ii.6@35W	2.1@35W	2.i@35W
Graphics	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD	Intel UHD
Base Clock	2.9GHz	2.5GHz	3.2GHz	ii.6GHz	ii.6GHz
One-Cadre Turbo	4.6GHz	four.8GHz	4.9GHz	5.0GHz	5.0GHz
Two-Core Turbo	four.6GHz	four.8GHz	four.9GHz	5.0GHz	5.0GHz
Iv-Cadre Turbo	4.4GHz	4.8GHz	4.7GHz	iv.9GHz	4.9GHz
Six-Core Turbo	iv.2GHz	iv.6GHz	4.4GHz	four.7GHz	4.7GHz
Eight-Core Turbo	NA	4.3GHz	NA	4.5GHz	four.5GHz
vPro	Aye	Yes	Yes	Yep	Yes
SIPP	Yes	Yep	Yes	Yes	Yes
TXT	Yes	Yeah	Yes	Yes	Yes

Intel appears to be non besides worried over benchmarks, either. In its press briefing, the chipmaker gladly put the new Core i9-11980HK upwardly against the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX with Intel besting large red across Far Weep New Dawn, Grid2019, Tom Clancy'due south Rainbow Six Siege, and more.

Intel Vs Ryzen 11thgen Source: Intel

But it is not all near the superlative-tier H-serial chips, as Intel claims the new (and more affordable) Core i5-11400H can border out AMD'due south Ryzen ix 5900HS. If the results hold up in contained tests, it will demonstrate that Intel is doing OK against AMD, fifty-fifty if it's however behind in chip fab technology.

Another odd caveat with the 11th Gen H-series is these exercise not use Intel Iris Xe graphics per se. Instead, Intel says the Intel UHD Graphics with 32 execution units (EUs) is based on "Xe Graphics Compages," any that ways. Of course, most laptops with an H-series scrap also feature a bulky NVIDIA GeForce graphics card (including the new RTX 3050 Ti) making the fallback and lower-powered UHD Graphics OK for basic tasks.

Intel 11th Gen Badges New Intel 11th Gen H-series laptop badges. Source: Intel

The rest of the 11th Gen features include Killer Wi-Fi 6E (Intel bought the visitor last May), Thunderbolt 4, additional PCIe lanes, support for PCIe 4.0, and integrated dual Embedded Brandish Port (eDP) for companion displays. While those technologies are expected, they are too welcomed. For those looking for Intel Evo certification, the visitor explains those criteria are reserved just for its 11th Gen U-series processors found in Ultrabooks.

As to when you can go your easily on a new laptop with Intel's latest, some companies are shipping in belatedly May, while others are close to the June and July timeframe, significant non too long from now.

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