Tuesday, August 11th 2020
Intel Core i3-1115G4 Tiger Lake CPU Surfaces on SiSoftware Sporting An Incredible Base Clock
Database spelunker TUM_APISAK has brought to the surface another revealing entry regarding Intel's upcoming Tiger Lake CPUs. Discovered in SiSoftware's database entries, the Intel Core i3-1115G4 has reared its head sporting a mightily impressive base core clock set at 3.0 GHz. Compare this to the Ice Lake-based Core i3-1005G1, which while making use of the 10 nm process itself, only managed to run on a 1.2 GHz base clock. This increase speaks to Intel's refinement of the 10 nm manufacturing process (even sporting its well-known woes) and the usage of the new Willow Cove architecture core that will power the i3-1115G4.
Whilst still being a 2-core, 4-thread processor (ehrm), the new i3-1115G4 based on Tiger Lake sports a number of improvements on both its CPU and GPU core design. The new architectural improvements baked into Willow Cove are aided by an L3 cache boost from 4 MB to 6 MB, and its GPU is expected to make use of Intel's Xe graphics, featuring 96 EUs (compared to the 64 EUs in Ice Lake's 12th Gen graphics). It remains to be seen exactly how competitive Tiger Lake will be compared to AMD's current (and future) Ryzen offerings, but these are some encouraging leaks.
Sources:
TUM_APISAK @ Twitter, via Tom's Hardware
Whilst still being a 2-core, 4-thread processor (ehrm), the new i3-1115G4 based on Tiger Lake sports a number of improvements on both its CPU and GPU core design. The new architectural improvements baked into Willow Cove are aided by an L3 cache boost from 4 MB to 6 MB, and its GPU is expected to make use of Intel's Xe graphics, featuring 96 EUs (compared to the 64 EUs in Ice Lake's 12th Gen graphics). It remains to be seen exactly how competitive Tiger Lake will be compared to AMD's current (and future) Ryzen offerings, but these are some encouraging leaks.
15 Comments on Intel Core i3-1115G4 Tiger Lake CPU Surfaces on SiSoftware Sporting An Incredible Base Clock
2C is why the base clock can be decently high in that 15W (I presume) TDP.
In my view, this is a crap result compared to 8 core / 16 thread processors that reach over 4 GHz on a single core and 3.0 GHz+ across all cores in a 10-15W envelope. I mean answer me this, would you buy a 3.0 GHz Core i3 dual core just because its from Intel and better than the previous generation Intel or would you buy any compatible processor with higher performance? We don't need Intel until they produce something better than their competition. We can just chose the competition.
War, what is it good for..............2 Cores, what are they good for?, absolutely nothing, say it again!I'll pass and wait for AMD's offerings.
But I have to agree that no matter how good Tiger Lake U is, 2c/4t is unlikely to dull the onslaught of AMD processors. The base Ryzen 3 Renoir is 4c/4t and move up a notch and you get 6c/6t. Unless Intel is again feeling generous, I am not expecting them to price it competitively as well, i.e. i3 = Ryzen 5 pricing.
We have PL1-PL2-PL4 of Tiger Lake U and Y (2 core and 4 core)
For Tiger Lake U 2 core 4 thread its
tdp_pl1_override = 15,
tdp_pl2_override = 38,
tdp_pl4 = 71,
But dont forget they can configure for higher or lower TDP
Three years ago I had a Pentium G4560 in my gaming PC and I had zero problems since it was the budget king back then.