Intel 13th Gen Core H-Series Processor
Back in September last year, I spent some time with Intel at their Innovation event in San Jose, learning about the company’s 13th Gen Core Series desktop processors. I also got a chance to pepper a few key execs about what these new CPU technologies could bring to the company’s laptop platform offerings as well.
Intel representatives were a bit more tight-lipped back then, but the general sentiment was confident to be sure. I got my questions answered today, Tuesday 1/3/23, when Intel lifted the veil on its 13th Gen Core Mobile offering, and we now have a view of this entire new mobile platform and family of CPUs that will power everything from beefy desktop replacement, workstation-class notebooks and gaming machines, to ultralight, premium Evo certified laptops as well.
Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile Brings More Cores, Faster Memory And Gobs Of High-Speed Connectivity
Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile Processors By Power Class
At the top of Intel’s new Core Mobile stack are 13th Gen HX series processors that scale up to 24-cores, which is a first for any laptop-class chip. Core Mobile HX processors like the company’s new Core i9 13980HX will be comprised of up to 16 E-Cores (Efficiency) and 8 P-Cores (Performance), with up to 32 threads of processing, the latter of which support Intel Hyper-Threading . Also on board is up to a fat 36MB shared L3 cache, support for Raptor Lake’s Enhanced Intel Thread Director technology and boost clocks up to a screaming-fast 5.6 GHz.
Intel 13th Gen Core HX Platform Block Diagram
These beefy mobile CPU options will be powering desktop replacement and gaming laptops that in general will have discrete graphics engines on board, so Intel only enabled the HX series with aa cut down 32 Execution Unit integrated Xe Graphics engine. Here’s a look at the entire Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile HX family…
Intel 13th Gen Core HX Processor Family, From 24-Core To 10-Core Chips
With a heavy-duty max Turbo Power consumption of 157 Watts and a base power of 55 Watts, Intel claims these will be the fastest mobile gaming processors on the market, that should also offer class-leading content creation chops as well. Note that the 13th Gen Core HX family also scales down to a small as 10 core chips with 6 P-Cores and 4 E-Cores. Also, here Intel is again rolling out PCI Express Gen 5 connectivity with its new 13th Gen Core Series, although only the Core HX and Core H-Series processors will have up to a X16 Gen 5 link (X8 in H-Series) off the CPU core complex, along with four Thunderbolt 4 links. In addition, more PCIe Gen 4 and 3 connectivity is made available via Intel’s discrete PCH (Platform Controller Hub) chip that also offers Wifi-6E and USB 2/3 support.
Intel 13th Gen Core HX Mobile Processor Performance Claims – Blender 3D Rendering Performance
As you can see, Intel is making bold performance claims for its 13th Gen Core HX-series, with up to a 79% performance lift versus its previous-gen HK (45 Watt) 12th Gen Core series, and even larger gains over AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX. In addition, Intel is claiming 13th Gen Core HX-Series mobile CPUs will deliver up to 12 percent faster gaming performance.
Intel 13th Gen Core H, P And U-Series To Fuel A New Breed Of Premium Evo Laptops
Intel partitions out its H-Series in a similar power band to its 13th Gen Core Mobile HX processors, although standard H-Series chips will target a lower power 45 Watt “Thin Enthusiast” class of machines, as the company calls them.
Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile Platform High Level Architecture Block Diagram
Think 4 – 6 lb full-featured notebooks with implementations up to 14-core variants and 5.4 GHz top-end turbo speeds, all of which will have 96 EU Intel Iris Xe Graphics on-board with support for Intel XeSS performance upscaling and what the company is called Endurance Gaming (YouTube link). You can think of Endurance Gaming features as a frame rate limiter, along with a power management feature that can significantly extend battery life while gaming. All Intel 13th Gen Core HX, H, P and U Series mobile processors will support Endurance Gaming as well as XeSS.
Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile H-Series Processor Family
Finally, Intel also rolled out its 13th Gen Core Mobile P-Series and U-Series processors at 28 Watt and 15 Watt power envelopes, respectively. Here we’re looking at another gaggle of laptop CPUs (Intel rolled out 32 new mobile chips in all), targeted at performance thin-and-light or ultralight machines. Also, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that some H, P, and U-Series 13th Gen Core-powered systems will support up to LPDDR5 6400 MHz and LPDDR4x- 4267 MHz speeds.
Intel 13th Gen P- And U-Series Core Mobile Processor Lineup
Intel P-Series 13th Gen Core Mobile chips will range from 14 to 12-core variants, while U-Series chips will range from 10 to 5-core low power chips, with up to 2 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, depending on model and configuration. Note also that U-Series chips have a Max Turbo Power spec of up to 55 Watts, although configurations will be very much OEM-dependent.
Intel Evo Laptop And Peripherals Partners List
Finally, Intel is rolling out several updates to its Evo design and certification program, that will continue to evolve a baseline of quality user experience, along with the official roll-out of Intel’s Unison smartphone-laptop integration platform software and technologies which are set to debut later this quarter. You can catch Intel’s Joshua Newman talking about all things Intel Evo 13th Gen and Unison here as well, on Intel’s YouTube channel.
Intel notes there are currently over 300 designs coming to market for Intel 13th-Gen H-, P-, and U-series processors, some of which will hit this quarter. I’d expect this excellent uptake from key Intel OEM partners, some of which you can see above, to equate to reinvigorated PC client chip revenues for the company in the first half of this year. In the meantime, be sure to head over to Zak Killian’s Intel 13th Gen Core Mobile coverage at HotHardware as well, for an even deeper dive on all of Intel’s new 13th Gen mobile platform technologies.
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