Intel 10th-gen CPUs Ice Lake significantly increase video processing speed and support Wi-Fi 6

Intel released the 10th generation Core processor yesterday, which is the chip codenamed Ice Lake. Apple will ship the Ice Lake chip in the MacBook Pro next year. Intel said instructions-per-clock (IPC) increase was 18% in many different tasks. IPC which is the number of instructions executed by the CPU per clock cycle.

MacWorld’s Jason Cross tested the chip and found that although the IPC is improved, “these 10th-generation chips have significantly lower base and boost clocks than the Amber Lake and Coffee Lake-U chips they are replacing.” In PCWorld’s tests, the overall performance is improved to 10% for single-core and 20% for multicore.

However, video processing speed will be greatly improved, in addition to encryption, video compression, and machine learning tasks. Ice Lake’s Quick Sync video compression speed is 30% faster. If MacBook Pro is equipped with the Ice Lake chip in the future, the daily task speed is not much improved, but large file compression and decompression, the video encoding of certain formats will have a significant speed increase.

In addition, Ice Lake’s graphics performance will be very good, it is close to the low-power version of the GeForce MX 510 graphics card. The MacBook Pro with Ice Lake chip will support the new Pro Display XDR monitor, which supports DisplayPort 1.4 HBR3 and HDMI 2.08, plus HDR10 and Dolby Vision. This means that three 60Hz 4K displays, or two 60Hz 5K displays, and one 30Hz 8K display can be connected at the same time.

Finally, Ice Lake will also support Wi-Fi 6, which is 802.11ax. The only bad news is that Ice Lake will not appear in the product until the end of the year, so the rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro may not be able to use Ice Lake.

Via: MacWorld