Early reviews of intel kaby lake show great optimization of 14 nm
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Intel Kaby Lake corresponds to the seventh generation of Intel Core processors, a new family of chips that are manufactured in an already highly refined 14nm Tri-Gate process that offers significantly better optimization than previous Broadwell and Skylake generations to allow Intel will improve its efficiency and performance without the need to move to a lower manufacturing node.
Intel Skylake vs Kaby Lake benchmarks
One of the best teams with Kaby Lake is the Dell XPS 13 which includes a Kaby Lake Core i5-7200U chip accompanied by 8GB of LPDDR 1866 RAM, 256GB of NVMe SSD storage and a 1920 × 1080 pixel resolution IPS display. This team has been compared to its predecessor with a Skylake Core i5-6200U processor, 8GB of LPDDR 1866 memory, the same resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, and a 256GB NVMe SSD. Therefore we are facing two teams in which only the used processor changes and we can make a fair comparison.
Both computers have been updated to Windows 10 Build 1493.222 and all drivers and BIOS have been updated before testing. With this we can get an idea of what the new Intel Kaby Lake processors will mean when they arrive on desktop computers.
Different tests on Cinebench R15, Geekbench 4.01, Handbrake, 3DMark Cloud Gate Graphics performance, and Autonomy show that the Core i5-7200U is approximately 10-12% higher than its predecessor, the Core i5-6200U. An improvement that is within the expected and it is also especially commendable that a slightly longer battery life is achieved in a scenario of normal use and a much longer autonomy in playback of HEVC 10-bit video at 4K resolution and with much greater fluidity..
conclusion
As a conclusion it can be said that Intel Kaby Lake is a quite remarkable advance compared to the first generation of Intel at 14 nm, the Broadwells. We see how Intel has been able to improve the performance of its chips by 25% without the need to change the manufacturing process and without increasing energy consumption. This is only a prelude to the biggest improvement we should see with Cannonlake's arrival at 10nm.
During the last years we have been seeing an approximate 10% improvement in each generation of Intel processors, the holders of a Haswell chip will see that the performance of the new Kaby Lake is approximately 30% higher, which is surely too little for the disbursement that implies. However, for users of an Ivy Bridge or Sandy Bridge generation, the improvement is already approaching or reaching 50%, so it may already be interesting to take the leap.
Source: pcworld
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