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    Intel launches 11th-gen Tiger Lake CPUs, with blazing-fast clock speeds

    Oct 06, 2020 4 minutes
    BY MARK HACHMAN

    Intel promised “dramatic” clock-speed increases in its 11th-gen “Tiger Lake” Intel Core CPU. It delivered.

    In August, Intel surprised us by promising that its new SuperFIN transistor would push Tiger Lake to a greater-than-generational improvement in CPU performance. While that claim will have to wait for actual testing, the numbers help bolster its case: The base clock speed of the top four-core, eight-thread Core i7-1185G7 reaches 3GHz—far above that of Intel’s flagship 10th-gen Ice Lake chips—with single-core turbo speeds hitting 4.8GHz.

    All told, Intel is launching nine new Tiger Lake processors for notebooks, five of which include the new Xe integrated graphics core. More than 150 designs based on the new, the new name for Intel’s ongoing Project Athena lineup of collaboratively designed premium notebook PCs. They’ll begin shipping in October.

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