Intel "Tiger Lake" Leverages 10 nm+ SuperFin and SuperMIM Technologies

[Assimilator]

Here we go: https://www.anandtech.com/show/1597...ke-soc-detailed-superfin-willow-cove-and-xelp

Pluses may or may not be completely gone from future branding and PR btw. Intel may or may not be fed up with people pointing at a long line of pluses and laugh.

Yup, 10nm++ is now "10SF" (SuperFin). 10nm+++ will be 10ESF (Enhanced SuperFin). Time to retire those plus memes.

This incarnation of Tiger Lake is a mobile-focused 4-core (presumably 8-thread) design.
Uses Willow Cove cores which are essentially the same as Sunny Cove.
Performance is supposedly up 10 - 20% over Ice Lake but this is due entirely to 10SF allowing clocks up to 5GHz again, as opposed to the maximum 4GHz on Ice Lake/10nm+.
PCIe 4.0 is supported but only via 4 lanes due to power consumption concerns; higher core count versions of TGL (for desktop) will have more lanes.
Power is ~15W compared to 7700HQ (also 4c/8t) at 45W - third of the power draw with integrated Thunderbolt 4/USB 4/PCIe 4.0 is not too shabby.

The new integrated Xe graphics are mostly irrelevant, but have hardware AV1 support and quad 4K outputs. Discrete Xe parts are apparently being fabbed at a third party.

Overall, interesting, but not very exciting - especially for desktop users.

 

[efikkan]

Yup, 10nm++ is now "10SF" (SuperFin). 10nm+++ will be 10ESF (Enhanced SuperFin). Time to retire those plus memes.

This incarnation of Tiger Lake is a mobile-focused 4-core (presumably 8-thread) design.
Uses Willow Cove cores which are essentially the same as Sunny Cove.
Performance is supposedly up 10 - 20% over Ice Lake but this is due entirely to 10SF allowing clocks up to 5GHz again, as opposed to the maximum 4GHz on Ice Lake/10nm+.

Right, except for adding a plus too many there. Ice Lake and Cannon Lake are on the same 10nm, while Tiger Lake is 10nm+(10SF).

PCIe 4.0 is supported but only via 4 lanes due to power consumption concerns; higher core count versions of TGL (for desktop) will have more lanes.
Power is ~15W compared to 7700HQ (also 4c/8t) at 45W - third of the power draw with integrated Thunderbolt 4/USB 4/PCIe 4.0 is not too shabby.

The new integrated Xe graphics are mostly irrelevant, but have hardware AV1 support and quad 4K outputs. Discrete Xe parts are apparently being fabbed at a third party.

Well, at least there is Tiger Lake-H coming, which is semi-interesting. But laptops never excite me.
I agree the integrated graphics are irrelevant. Up to a certain performance level, performance differences doesn't really matter, only if it's there and it's working.

Overall, interesting, but not very exciting - especially for desktop users.

I would agree for mainstream desktop, but there is also HEDT.
I'm only aware of one larger change between Sunny Cove and Willow Cove; the cache system, which Ice Lake-SP/X already have.

 

[Assimilator]

Right, except for adding a plus too many there. Ice Lake and Cannon Lake are on the same 10nm, while Tiger Lake is 10nm+(10SF).

You forget about the original 10nm Cannon Lake, which was a 2c/4t part with disabled iGPU. It's so bad that Intel has attempted to scrub its existence from the Internet, although AnandTech did review a sample they were only able to acquire through unconventional channels: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13405/intel-10nm-cannon-lake-and-core-i3-8121u-deep-dive-review