News Intel Drops Xe LP Graphics Specs: Tiger Lake GPU Has 2x Speeds

It's going to be very interesting to see how Tiger Lake Xe LP stacks up to AMD's Renoir in the coming months. I suspect Renoir will maintain a CPU cores advantage, and a modest lead on GPU performance, but if Intel can do what it's claiming, this will easily be the most compelling Intel GPU ever. Fingers crossed
 

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AMD Renoir will surely have a core count advantage since Tiger Lake is pretty much confirmed to cap out at 4c/8t. Graphic wise, we should see a good improvement with Xe graphics. However I feel if the performance is close to the enhanced Vega 8, then there is not much of an incentive for people to consider a Tiger Lake based laptop over a Renoir base laptop.
 
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It will probably be a premium part, pushing Iris to mid-tier... Exact and real-world performance has yet to be seen though. As pointed out, paper specs don't tell the whole story unless comparing the exact same architecture. (but, even then...)
 

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However I feel if the performance is close to the enhanced Vega 8, then there is not much of an incentive for people to consider a Tiger Lake based laptop over a Renoir base laptop.

The reason to go with Intel is because the OEM's will produce a wider variety of models including more premium models than they will for AMD. So you're more likely to find a model that exactly fits your needs.
 
The reason to go with Intel is because the OEM's will produce a wider variety of models including more premium models than they will for AMD. So you're more likely to find a model that exactly fits your needs.
Sad but true. There are very few Renoir laptops available right now, compared to Intel models. I would love a great 15-inch with an IPS 2.5K display, not 4K or 1080p. The LG Gram 17-inch is probably as close as I can find to my ideal specs, outside of the CPU and GPU. One of those with Renoir 8-core (Ryzen 7 or 9) would be awesome, but then price would probably be in the $1,500 range as well, which is more than I want to spend.