Intel announced at CES 2020 that Intel Core H-series processors will be coming to gaming laptops later this year. Designed for both gamers and content creators, these 10th Gen Intel Core chips should offer 5 GHz-plus performance, according to Intel. Laptops equipped with these chips should also benefit from technologies likes Thunderbolt 3 connectivity, Wi-Fi 6 and Optane memory, which speeds up PC performance. In addition to 5GHz speeds for its Core i7 chips, Intel is promising even faster clock speeds for Core i9 H-Series processors. Expect those 10th Gen processors to find their way into gaming laptops in 2020, Intel says. We had a chance to benchmark Intel’s 10th Gen Ice Lake CPUs last year. And in terms of numbers relevant to gaming, we found that the new Iris Plus graphics for 10-Gen CPUs can play leading games at 1080p with double the frame rates over previous iterations of Intel’s chips. On the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark, the Iris Plus-equipped Intel system reached 112,379, compared to a score of 90,977 for a 13-inch HP Spectre x360 with an 8th Gen Core i7-8565U Whiskey Lake CPU. And that was on a machine with integrated graphics. Intel’s Core H-series announcement is just one of the many laptop-centric announcements we’re tracking at CES this week. Check out our CES 2020 hub for more laptop coverage.
