Leaked benchmarks show that speedy Kaby Lake laptops could make a splash

By Darren Allan

While Intel has been fairly tight-lipped concerning the details of its next-generation Kaby Lake CPUs thus far – although we did get a taster at IDF, where the company demonstrated that Kaby Lake integrated graphics were good enough to play Overwatch – a fresh leak has shown us more about what sort of power we can expect.

Benchlife.info has got hold of some marketing slides detailing nuggets of information about Intel’s seventh-generation Core processors, one of which states that mobile CPUs will be used in some 100 plus ultra-thin laptops and 2-in-1s emerging in the final quarter of this year.

That’s a lot of new notebooks and hybrids, and we’d expect to see quite a number of the latter given that they’ve been a relatively hot area of growth for PCs of late (running against the overall downward trend of the computer market).

The slide also notes that these Kaby Lake processors will run from a TDP of 4.5W up to 15W, the latter being the top-end Core i7.

Benchmarks ahoy

Another slide compares the incoming Core i7 to a current Skylake processor, pitching the Core i7-7500U against the Core i7-6500U in two benchmarks. For productivity – measured by SYSmark 2014 – the …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components