By Kevin Lee
We’ve been expecting Intel Coffee Lake for the longest time, however, the chipmaker just announced its 8th generation CPUs will be a Kaby Lake Refresh.
Before you get too disappointed though, this tick-tock-tock update is bringing some big developments including some of the first quad-core U-series processors. Intel latest batch of Core i5 and i7 CPUs destined for Ultrabooks will see a doubling of Core- and Thread-counts.
Additionally, 8th generation Intel Core processors introduce Intel UHD Graphics, allowing laptops to better handle 4K content purely on Integrated graphics. This new form of on-board graphics will also allow users to connect their Ultrabooks to up to three Ultra HD displays at the same time and power Windows Mixed Reality experiences – though Ultra level experiences will still require dedicated graphics.
Intel claims users should see up to a 40% performance increase over its last generation of processors. According to the company, Kaby Lake Refresh brings a two-times increase in both productivity performance and web performance.
Users can supposedly expect to render a 4K video in just three minutes and edit photos in Lightroom up to 28% faster than 7th generation Kaby Lake chips. However, without solid details of those tests, we’ll wait to …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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