Intel’s first 9th-gen Core mobile processors are 45 watt chips designed for gaming laptops and other high-performance machines. The chip maker says its new H-series processors bring desktop-class performance to mobile devices, with up to 33 percent better all-around performance when compared with a 3-year-old PC.

But not all of the new chips are created equal.

The entry-level Core i5-9300H, for example, is a quad-core processor with 8MB of smart cache and support for turbo speeds up to 4.1 GHz. But the top-of-the-line Core i9-9980HK is an  octa-core processor with  16MB of smart cache and turbo speeds up to 5 GHz.

PC makers including Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer are planning to release laptops featuring the new chips inn the coming months.

Among other things, the new chips include native  support for WiFi 6 (802.11ax), support for Intel Optane memory H10 SSDs, support, for dual channel DDR4-2666 memory, and the Core i9 variants supports Intel’s new “Thermal Velocity Boost,” (TVB) which can increase clock speed by up to 200 MHz automatically if the temperature is below 50 degrees Celsius.

Other features include support for HEVC 10-bit encoding and decoding and VP9 10-bit decoding, DisplayPort 1.4, PCIe 3.0, and other technologies.

Here’s a run-down of the first 9th-gen Core H-series chips:

  • Core i9-9980HK – 8-cores/16-threads/2.4GHz base/5 GHz boost/16MB cache/TVB/unlocked
  • Core i9-9880H – 8-cores/16-threads/2.3 GHz base/4.8 GHz boost/16MB cache/TVB
  • Core i7-9850H – 6-cores/12-threads/2.6GHz base/4.6 GHz boost/12MB cache/partially unlocked
  • Core i7-9750H – 6-cores/12-threads/2.6GHz base/4.5 GHz boost/12MB cache
  • Core i5-9400H – 4-cores/8-threads/2.5 GHz base/4.3 GHz boost/8MB cache
  • Core i5-9300H – 4-cores/8-threads/2.4 GHz base/4.1 GHz boost/8MB cache

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4 replies on “Intel launches 9th-gen H-series mobile chips with up to 8 CPU cores”

  1. This new chips are still 14nm, and I’m not sure that Intel fixed all their supply issues, so almost no one will have the incentive to upgrade to those new CPUs

    1. Fully agree. If you can wait for 10nm, you should… unless they have some really good prices.

      1. Intel’s soon to come 10nm is almost as good as Samsung’s current 8nm wafer. And that’s noticeably worse than TSMC’s old 7nm wafer.

        By the time Intel can even do their first round of 10nm, we will be on +7nm from both Samsung and TSMC. That means they will be cleanly a full-node ahead.

        Oh, how the times have changed since 2014, where Intel had decent 14/10nm and the industry was still tackling 32/28nm.

        1. Samsung and TSMC both completed their development of 5nm technology, and TSMC is already in risk production. It’s entirely possible that both of them will be able to get to the market before Intel 10nm.

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