During the CES 2020 exhibition earlier this year, Intel officially announced the tenth generation Core high-performance processor code-named Comet Lake-H, specifically for gaming notebooks. It is still a 14nm process but the frequency will be further improved. It is said that the i7 and i9 series will reach or even Beyond 5GHz.

We have seen the i7-10750H before, which will inevitably become the standard configuration of high-end gaming notebooks in the future. It will continue to have 6 cores and 12 threads. The base frequency remains unchanged at 2.6GHz, and the turbo acceleration frequency has increased significantly from 4.6GHz to 5.0GHz.

The flagship 8-core 16-thread i9-10980HK has also appeared, with the base frequency increased from 2.4GHz to 3.1GHz, but testing shows that the turbo frequency is still 5.0GHz, which has not crossed this threshold.

Now, the complete i9-10980HK has finally appeared in the GeekBench test database. The base frequency is still 3.1GHz, but the turbo frequency has reached 5.3GHz, which is 300MHz higher than the i9-9980HK, finally fulfilling Intel's promise.

If nothing else, the 10th generation Core H series will still maintain a thermal design power consumption of 45W, but it will undoubtedly pose a more stringent test to the heat dissipation design of gaming laptops.

On the other hand, the AMD Ryzen 4000U and Ryzen 4000H series have been frequently seen recently, and various data show that their performance is quite good. For example, the top 8-core 16-thread Ryzen 7 4800H can be on par with i9-9980HK and i9-10880HK. Being ahead, this will undoubtedly put great pressure on Intel, and the setting does not rule out the possibility of temporarily increasing the frequency of i9-10980HK.

Ryzen 4000 thin and light laptops, gaming laptops, and 10th generation Core gaming laptops will all be released in the near future. Now is the time to buy one!