Intel is launching a whole bunch of new 10th-gen Core “Comet Lake” processors with vPro features. Aimed at business customers, the new chips range from 15 watt, quad-core laptop processors to 125 watt, deca-core Xeon chips for desktop workstation PCs.
For the most part the vPro features won’t matter much to end users, but they should offer IT administrators some extra security and management tools for doing things like device provisioning, setting corporate policies, and enabling security features. It’s also worth noting that the vPro chips will only be available in computers with Windows 10 Pro or Windows 10 Enterprise.
There are a lot of new chips, but here’s a cheat sheet:
Laptops and mobile workstations
Chip | Cores/Threads | Base freq | Max freq | Cache | TDP |
Core i5-10310U | 4/8 | 1.7 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 6MB | 15W |
Core i7-10610U | 4/8 | 1.8 GHz | 4.9 GHz | 8MB | 15W |
Core i7-10810U | 6/12 | 1.1 GHz | 4.9 GHz | 12MB | 15W |
Core i5-10400H | 4/8 | 2.6 GHz | 4.6 GHz | 8MB | 45W |
Core i7-10850H | 6/12 | 2.7 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 12MB | 45W |
Core i7-10875H | 8/16 | 2.3 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 16MB | 45W |
Core i9-10885H | 8/16 | 2.4 GHz | 5.3 GHz | 16MB | 45W |
Xeon W-10855M | 6/12 | 2.8 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 12MB | 45W |
Xeon W-10885M | 8/16 | 2.4 GHz | 5.3 GHz | 16MB | 45W |
Desktops
Chip | Cores/Threads | Base freq | Max freq | Cache | TDP |
Core i5-10500 | 6/12 | 3.1 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 12MB | 65W |
Core i5-10500T | 6/12 | 2.3 GHz | 3.8 GHz | 12MB | 35W |
Core i5-10500TE | 6/12 | 2.3 GHz | 3.7 GHz | 12MB | 35W |
Core i5-10500E | 6/12 | 3.1 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 12MB | 65W |
Core i5-10600 | 6/12 | 3.3 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 12MB | 65W |
Core i5-10600T | 6/12 | 2.5 GHz | 4 GHz | 12MB | 35W |
Core i5-10600K | 6/12 | 4.1 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 12MB | 125W |
Core i7-10700 | 8/16 | 2.9 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 16MB | 65W |
Core i7-10700T | 8/16 | 2 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 16MB | 35W |
Core i7-10700TE | 8/16 | 2 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 16MB | 35W |
Core i7-10700E | 8/16 | 2.9 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 16MB | 65W |
Core i7-10700K | 8/16 | 3.8 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 16MB | 125W |
Core i9-10900 | 10/20 | 2.8 GHz | 5.2 GHz | 20MB | 65W |
Core i9-10900T | 10/20 | 1.9 GHz | 4.6 GHz | 20MB | 35W |
Core i9-10900TE | 10/20 | 1.8 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 20MB | 35W |
Core i9-10900E | 10/20 | 2.8 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 20MB | 65W |
Core i9-10900K | 10/20 | 3.7 GHz | 5.3 GHz | 20MB | 125W |
Workstations
Chip | Cores/Threads | Base freq | Max freq | Cache | TDP |
Xeon W-1250 | 6/12 | 3.3 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 12MB | 80W |
Xeon W-1250E | 6/12 | 3.5 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 12MB | 80W |
Xeon W-1250TE | 6/12 | 2.4 GHz | 3.8 GHz | 12MB | 35W |
Xeon W-1250P | 6/12 | 4.1 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 12MB | 125W |
Xeon W-1270 | 8/16 | 3.4 GHz | 5 GHz | 16MB | 80W |
Xeon W-1270E | 8/16 | 3.4 GHz | 4.8 GHz GHz | 16MB | 80W |
Xeon W-1270TE | 8/16 | 2 GHz | 4.4 GHz | 16MB | 35W |
Xeon W-1270P | 8/16 | 3.8 GHz | 5.1 GHz | 16MB | 125W |
Xeon W-1290 | 10/20 | 3.2 GHz | 5.2 GHz | 20MB | 80W |
Xeon W-1290E | 10/20 | 3.5 GHz | 4.8 GHz | 20MB | 95W |
Xeon W-1290T | 10/20 | 1.9 GHz | 4.7 GHz | 20MB | 35W |
Xeon W-1290TE | 10/20 | 1.8 GHz | 4.5 GHz | 20MB | 35W |
Xeon W-1290P | 10/20 | 3.7 GHz | 5.3 GHz | 20MB | 95W |
How boring, still 14nm. Looks like Intel got stuck in intradimensional time-loop. Might consider hiring Picard and his Enterprise crew, cause I don’t see them coming out any time soon.
(sarcasm)
Intel’s 10th-gen is on a new Architecture (Ice Lake) and new Lithography (10nm).
Yet, that is inferior to their old Architecture (Comet Lake) on the old Lithography (14nm). And Comet Lake really isn’t special, it’s just a rehash of Skylake that debut back in 2016. So basically, for the last 5 years Intel hasn’t done anything. AMD has truly surpassed them in-terms of: Security, IPC, Multithreading, Efficiency, oh and Price.
2017/14nm Zen 1 (1500X, 1800X) < 2015/22nm Haswell (4790k, 5960x)
2018/12nm Zen+ (2500X, 2700X) 2019/+14nm Coffee Lake (9350k, 9900k)
2020/+7nm Zen 3 (4300X, 4800X > 2020/+14nm (10350k, 10700k)…probably!