Nvidia is not the only company with an important announcement next week. Intel is also gearing up to unveil its Tiger Lake (11th generation) mobile chips with Intel Xe graphics architecture, and preliminary benchmark data shows that they are arriving significantly faster than their Ice Lake counterparts.

Geekbench 5 benchmark results show that the Intel Core i7 1185G7, the top-of-the-line Tiger Lake chip and supposed equivalent of the new generation of Core i7 1065G7, has a base clock of 2.99GHz (effective 3GHz) and an effective clock of 4.79GHz ( This is a significant improvement over the Ice Lake equivalent.

Not only is the CPU within the Tiger Lake mobile chip slightly faster than past generations, but the integrated GPU is also faster. The 96 EU GPU in Tiger Lake, the first glimpse of the Intel Xe architecture, albeit in the form of a mobile chip, is reportedly clocked at 1.55 GHz, a significant improvement over the 1.1 GHz "maximum dynamic frequency" of the 64 EU GPU in Ice Lake, respectively. [28W Core i7 1068NG7 has a base 2.3 GHz and boost 4.1 GHz, but this is only available on the Apple Macbook and the GPU's maximum clock remains 1.1 GHz.

Intel Tiger Lake processors utilize a 10nm SuperFin process node. This is a step within the node, usually denoted by + (10nm, 10nm+, 10nm++, etc.), but Intel wisely declined to continue the 10nm++ tradition and instead settled on something a bit more descriptive: SuperFin.

And this process optimization, based on FinFET transistors, seems to have worked wonders for the Tiger Lake chips.

Clock speeds for the Core i7 1185G7 remain unconfirmed, but this is in line with Intel's promise to "dramatically increase frequency" in its next-generation laptop processors. Also, given that it is not far from the release of Intel's next generation of mobile processors, it is likely that we are looking at something closer to a final shipping product.

And it's an incredibly exciting prospect: thin, lightweight Intel Ice Lake-based laptops like the Dell XPS 2-in-1 are excellent devices that can deliver an amazing level of gaming performance for such a small device. Building on that foundation with a faster, better GPU and a speedy 4-core CPU, Intel Tiger Lake is sure to be something to look forward to.

Intel plans to hold a Tiger Lake (11th generation) launch event on September 2, 2020.