![]() Intel says that it can be up to 260 percent better, in fact. Skylake refresh Intel unveils Kaby Lake, its first post-tick-tock CPU architecture New 7th-generation Core CPUs have a lot in common with the 6th generation. It’s a real boon for laptops, since native support for HEVC and VP9 means the processor doesn’t have to work as hard as a Skylake chip would – it would have to use its CPU cores to decode the video – and therefore battery life should be longer when watching 4K video. The next tock release was the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture (Xeon 5500 series), which used a 45nm process technology, introduced in late. Also, Kaby Lake supports HDCP 2.2 which, put simply, is the copy protection used for 4K video and you’ll need it to hook up a compatible monitor and watch copy-protected UHD content. However with the delay of 10nm, it means that Intel now has an additional year to fill in their product lineup, and that means tick-tock is on the rocks. ![]() Since the GPU is handling the load here, the CPU cores can be put to use for other things, so your PC won’t grind to a halt while you watch. It also supports VP9 decoding, which is Google’s codec designed to compete with HEVC. This is the latest video codec which is designed for 4K video and it means a Kaby Lake chip will let you watch Netflix, Amazon or any other 4K video in HEVC format without sweating. You can’t buy a laptop with a Ryzen processor yet – they’re due in the second half of this year – but there are plenty of Ryzen-based PCs now available and they’re arguably a better buy than Kaby Lake.įirst, Kaby Lake has an upgraded graphics chip which supports encoding and decoding HEVC. The top models have eight cores and 16 threads, and have proven themselves not only faster than Intel’s current best (the i7-7700K) in many CPU-based benchmarks, but they’re also great value too. However, things are more complicated now that AMD has released Ryzen. If you have an older PC with an Ivy Bridge (third-generation) or Haswell (fourth-generation) processor, then it could be time to upgrade – unless it was the top-of-the-range Core i7, in which case you might not notice much of a performance boost. They clearly have years of architecture improvements to put out there now. ![]() or a tock after that, instead just maturing the same process and architecture. I dont see them following up with a tick agreed, they barely have 10nm ready let alone 7nm. You’ll miss out on most of the new features and you won’t notice the increase in performance unless you’re moving from a bottom of the range i5 to, say, the Core i7-7700K. Icelake is a tick and tock Icelake is only a tock. If you already have a PC with a sixth-gen Skylake processor, there’s no point upgrading it to Kaby Lake. ![]()
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