By Darren Allan
Some fresh information has emerged on Intel’s incoming laptop processor that runs with AMD Radeon graphics, confirming that the chip will indeed use AMD Radeon Vega graphics cores – AMD’s current-generation tech rather than last-gen Polaris.
Additionally, we now know what exactly this processor will be called as well as its wattage and clock speed.
As PC World reports, this comes from Intel India – which may even have mistakenly broke this news – and it dispels whispers on the CPU grapevine that AMD might have stuck with a Polaris GPU when it comes to Intel’s now so-called Core i7-8809G notebook chip due to emerge later this quarter.
The Core i7 part will use the Vega in conjunction with HBM2 memory, and it’ll be a quad-core (eight-thread) processor clocked at 3.1GHz with a total TDP – or thermal design power – of 100 watts (W). Theoretically, then, given that this chip has an H-series mobile CPU, which normally uses 45W, the GPU could weigh in around the 50W mark in terms of power consumption – equivalent to a beefy Radeon RX 550.
Promising news
It’s still too early to make any real call on the sort of pixel-pushing power that might …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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