By Kevin Lee
When we first heard of Intel’s H-series Coffee Lake processors for laptops, we had a hunch it would include some of company’s first hexa-core CPUs. But, we never expected Core i9 to make the jump to laptops.
On desktops, high-end processors, like the Intel Core i9-7980XE, have brought the highest-core counts we’ve seen on consumer chips and the greatest multi-core performance we’ve tested.
In similar fashion, the top-of-the-line chip boasts a six-core and 12-thread arrangement for the first time on a mobile part, with the addition of higher clock speeds up to 4.8GHz, thanks to its fully unlocked status. Intel claims that its Core i9-8950HK is the best gaming and content-creation laptop processor it has ever built. Even amongst its 8th generation H-series brethren, this top-end part is claimed to deliver at least 10% more performance than the second-most powerful Intel Core i7-8850H.
Of course, there’s always a greater story behind any legendary leap forward such as this, and Fredrik Hamberger, general manager of premium and gaming notebooks at Intel, is excited to tell all.
“We saw the demand from our highest-end enthusiasts for more performance,” Hamberger says, explaining the origins of the first mobile Core i9 processor. “They wanted something …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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