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8th Gen Intel Core Processor Mobile Positioning
U: Mainstream Mobility
- Think & Light
- Immersive Entertainment
- Long battery life
- Integrated Intel UHD Graphics
G: Thin & Light Performance w/ Discrete Graphics
- Intel’s high performance mobile enthusiast CPU
- First Consumer EMIB, HBM2, discrete graphics on package, power sharing
- Enthusiast Gaming and VR Experience
- Innovative designs
H: Highest Performance
- Intel’s high performance mobile enthusiast CPU
- CPU-attached discrete graphics for Consumer
- 4K Gaming
- Professional Media Creation
- Mega-Tasking
8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M Overview
- 4GB of HIgh Bandwidth Memory Gen 2 (HBM2)
- Custom Radeon RX Vega M Graphics
- 8th Generation Intel Core Processor
Enabling the industry to create innovative designs
- First 8th Gen Intel COre H-Series in market, more to come
- First implementation of power sharing across CPU & GPU
- First consumer solution to use Intel EMIB
- First consumer mobile solution to use HBM2
Next level performance in sleek, thin & light systems
- Offers overclocking on CPU, GPU and HBM
- Delivering performance at two designs points: 65W & 100W
Innovative systems designs coming in Q1’18
- Dell, HP and Intel NUC
Hardware Innovation
Smaller, thinner solution through Intel EMIB
- Embedded high speed connector in package
- Reduced silicon footprint over 50%
- Keeps CPU and GPU z-height 1.7mm slim
Enthusiast processor adds needed connectivity
- Eight lanes of PCI Express Gen 3 connecting CPU & GPU
- Provides necessary throughout to feed intense gfx workloads
- Remaining PCIe lanes available for direct CPU access
Hardware Features
- Efficient HBM, up to 80% less power than GDDR5
- Intel Graphics efficient display and Quick Sync Video capabilities available
- 9 Display outputs available for design flexibility
Thinner Designs Through Dynamic Power Sharing
- Intel Dynamic Tuning — NEW! Dynamic power sharing enables enthusiast performance in sleek systems
- Up front design benefit of 17.5W
- Same performance with up to 18% higher efficiency
Two Amazing Graphics Subsystems On One Small Package
High Bandwidth Cache Controller
High Bandwidth Cache
- 4GB Capacity
- 1024-bit bus width
- low power
Compute Units
- Up to 24 Compute Units
- Asynchronous Dispatch
- Per Compute Unit Power Gating
- Vulkan & DirectX 12Ready
- Supports Radeon Shader Intrinsics
Quad Geometry Engines
Vega Pixel Engine
- Up to 16 Render Back Ends
- Up to 64 Pixels/Clock
Radeon Multimedia Engine
- 4K60 encode/decode with Radeon ReLive
- HEVC, H264 HDR enc/dec
Intel Quick Sync Video
- VP9 & HEVC 10b HW enc/dec
- H264 HW enc/dec
Radeon Display Engine
- 6 Displays
- Up to 4K resolution
- Display Port 1.4 w/ HDR
- HDMI 2.0b with HDR10 support
Intel Gfx Display Engine
- 3 Displays
- 4K resolution
- eDP/PSR for long battery life
8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M GL Graphics
i7-4720HQ w/ GTX950M vs 8th Gen Intel Core w/ Radeon RX Vega M GL | |
Sysmark 2014 SE | 1.6X BETTER PRODUCTIVITY |
3DMark Time Spy – Graphics | 2.3X BETTER |
3DMark 11 Graphics | 2.2X BETTER |
Vermintide 2 | 3.0X BETTER FPPS |
Handbrake | 6.7X FASTER TRANSCODE |
Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Cloud | 42% FASTER CONTENT CREATION |
I7-8550U w/ GTX1050 vs 8th Gen Intel Core w/ Radeon RX Vega M GL | |
3DMark 11 – Graphics | 1.3X BETTER |
HITMAN | 1.4X BETTER FPS |
DEUS EX: Mankind Divided | 1.3X BETTER FPS |
Vermintide 2 | 1.1X BETTER FPS |
8th Gen Intel Core with Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics
i7-4720HQ w/ GTX960M vs 8th Gen Intel Core w/ Radeon RX Vega M GH | |
Sysmark 2014 SE | 1.6X BETTER PRODUCTIVITY |
3DMark Time Spy – Graphics | 2.4X BETTER |
3DMark 11 Graphics | 2.7X BETTER |
HItman | 2.7X BETTER FPS |
Vermintide 2 | 2.6X BETTER FPPS |
Total War: Warhammer | 2.0X BETTER FPS |
Rise of the Tomb Raider | 2.0X BETTER FPS |
I7-7700HQ w/ GTX1060 Max-Q Graphics vs 8th Gen Intel Core w/ Radeon RX Vega M GH | |
3DMark 11 – Graphics | 1.07X BETTER |
HITMAN | 1.07X BETTER FPS |
DEUS EX: Mankind Divided | 1.13X BETTER FPS |
Total War: Warhammer | 1.09X BETTER FPS |
RX Vega M Up to 1.13X Higher Performance than GTX 1060 Max-Q (6GB)