Intel announces H-series Tiger Lake octacores and hexacores for laptops

Intel has added three new octacores and two hexacores to its laptop processor offering. These are Tiger Lake chips in the H series. In addition, three business vPro processors and two mobile Xeon chips will appear.

The five consumer laptop processors are produced at 10nm and do their job at 45W as standard. Intel offers laptop manufacturers the option of running the Core i9-11980HK at 65W. In that case, the clock frequency can be 3.3GHz instead of the standard 2.6GHz. For the remaining four processors, manufacturers can lower the tdp to 35W, giving them slower clock speeds for longer battery life or cooling systems with lower demands. The GPU is Intel’s Xe architecture-based UHD Graphics, which runs at 350MHz by default and does the job at a maximum of 1450MHz.

The most powerful processor is the Core i9-11980HK, which has eight cores and sixteen thread support with 24MB L3 cache and a maximum Turbo clock speed of 5GHz, using a single core. Laptops with the processors can deploy up to twenty PCIe 4.0 lanes for the combination with graphics cards and storage and can support up to DDR4-3200 memory, Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E.

Intel simultaneously announced two mobile Xeon W1000 processors for workstations and three H processors based on the vPro platform. These are chips for business laptops. For example, the Xeons support memory with error correcting code, they support memory encryption with Intel Memory Encryption and Intel Active Management Technology is available for remote management.

According to Intel, a total of more than eighty laptop models from manufacturers are on the way with the new processors. This concerns relatively powerful laptops such as for gaming and graphics professionals. Earlier this year, Tiger Lake-H35 processors appeared for less powerful and thinner laptops.