The full list of Intel Comet Lake H-series CPUs against AMD's Ryzen 4000 mobile CPUs has been leaked ahead of the April 2 announcement. These six 10th generation processors will be the ticket to high-end gaming performance in a laptop form factor, but do they have what it takes to stop a resurgent AMD?

As previously reported, the top chip will be the Core i9 10980HK. Unlike the Comet Lake desktop version with up to 10 cores that will be announced this April, this chip will have up to 8 cores and 16 threads. This high core count is not something to be sniffed at, especially if you have long memories of mobile CPUs, but Intel and AMD's 2020 mobile parts will have comparable core counts.

However, as shown in a leaked slide deck from HD Tecnologia (via VideoCardz), there are some key differences across the stack between Intel Comet Lake and AMD Renoir mobile processors. The most significant difference is that Intel's latest lineup offers a single-core turbo frequency of 5 GHz for the Core i9 and Core i7. In comparison, AMD's Renoir processors max out at 4.4 GHz on the Ryzen 9 4900H.

Intel tends to outperform AMD in raw gaming performance due to its single-core advantage. Multi-core performance is often neglected in gaming workloads. But what we can't get right here is whether these clock speeds can be reached easily and, importantly, whether they can be sustained for long. As for this, we will have to wait until the well-known gaming laptops hit the store shelves and reach us. [The performance of Intel and AMD mobile processors depends somewhat on the kit surrounding them. Anything else will have to make some sacrifices in exchange for lower noise and heat.

Intel's 10th generation mobile chips will all have TDPs of 45W; AMD, using TSMC's advanced 7nm process, has narrowed the TDP of its chips to 35W. [The Core i9 9980HK is an 8-core/16-thread processor with a maximum boost of 5.00GHz, while the 10th generation equivalent, the Core i9 10980HK, is likely to offer more of the same overall performance in gaming.

The combination of Intel's 10th generation chips and Nvidia's latest super mobile GPUs continues to be the de facto high-performance gaming laptop contender this year. However, this is not an exclusive combination, and AMD has shown that it has silicon that rivals today's top-of-the-line discrete GPUs.

And as evidenced by Alan's Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 gaming laptop review, there is a high bar for performance for AMD's Ryzen Mobile processors. the Ryzen 9 4900HS is a great example of how this laptop's slim chassis Despite this, it packs a punch that leaves nothing to be desired; the Intel Comet Lake H-series chips are staring down their toughest competition to date.

This is certainly an important battle for AMD to win. Over the past year, the company has largely dominated with Zen 2 in the best CPUs for desktop gaming, but has been unable to grab supremacy in the mobile market. Intel's Comet Lake H series is the only thing standing in AMD's way so far in terms of high-end performance.