Intel Ice Lake promises at least 15% higher IPC, taking the game to AMD’s Ryzen 3000
The new Sunny Cove core, the beating silicon heart of the 10nm Intel Ice Lake CPUs, is going to provide between a 15% and an 18% IPC performance improvement over its last generation of processors. Considering AMD is about to post around a 12-13% IPC uptick in order to catch up with Intel, that could be significant.
Intel’s pre-emptive reaction to the Computex announcement of the AMD Ryzen 3000 range of processors has been to start talking up its 10nm Ice Lake processors in more detail. We’ve already heard that Intel has measured gaming performance that’s “nearly double” that of its last-gen chips because of the improved processor graphics, but now we’re getting down and dirty with the Sunny Cove core’s IPC advancements too.
We spoke with Intel last week, ahead of this morning’s Computex keynote (or this afternoon if you’re roleplay the biggest PC tech show on the planet and resolutely staying on Taipei time), and it was keen to dig into the instructions per clock (IPC) performance uplift of the new Sunny Cove architecture. Mostly in response to a piece I wrote about how the new Ryzen chips mean Intel is about to lose its hold on the gaming PC.
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