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The epidemic in the past year, the black swan, has made many industries around the world face difficulties, but objectively many technology companies have benefited unexpectedly. For example, the explosion of demand for online office and distance education has driven the global PC market and server market to rise all the way. Of course, the performance of Intel and AMD chip suppliers is also rising.

Earlier, both Intel and AMD released their own 2020 financial reports, and their performance in the past year was very beautiful. However, although AMD has eroded Intel's space in the consumer market in the past two years due to the massive expansion of the three generations of Ryzen processor with Zen2 architecture, from the financial report, AMD's overall revenue and profit scale are still not in an order of magnitude with Intel. So some people directly say that AMD is responsible for Yes and Intel is responsible for making money.

Of course, this is just a joke, but it is easy to misunderstand that Intel is not as good as AMD in product strength and technology. In fact, it's far from it. Let's take the recent Intel 10 generation and 1 1 generation Core processors as examples. These two processors are ahead of competitors in many aspects.

At present, Intel 1 1 generation Core's low-voltage processor for thin and light notebook was launched last year, which gained a lot of praise. Meanwhile, the standard version 1 1 generation Core H and desktop processor are on their way. Although it has not been launched yet, it is reported that 1 1 generation Core mobile and desktop processors have eye-catching performance in all aspects. Here, Bian Xiao may want to compare the product advantages of Intel and AMD in terms of performance, power consumption, battery life, connectivity and AI. , based on 1 1 generation core, supplemented by the related performance of 10 generation core, to see which is stronger and which is weaker.

1, performance

The first is of course the performance that consumers are most concerned about. Speaking of performance, I believe that most netizens will think of games for the first time. Indeed, games can be said to be the most effective and high-frequency application for extracting hardware performance. With the deepening of the mobile wave, the game book has become one of the most popular notebook categories in the market. At present, Intel 10 generation Core mobile processor (CometLake-H) is the main player in the market.

On the 10 generation Core mobile processor series, Intel raised the turbo frequency level of the whole i7 series and i9 series to 5.0GHz for the first time among mobile standard processors, and adopted the design of 8-core 16 thread for the first time in i7 series. Compared with the notebook three years ago, the game frame rate can be improved by 44%.

At the same time, on the 10 generation Core high-performance mobile processor, the cache capacity of most models is above 10MB, which means that the game could have transmitted massive game data to the processor more efficiently and quickly, which is also the key link to ensure the fluency of the game.

Also, the 10 generation Core mobile processor not only has the well-known Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, but also adds the Turbo Boost MAX 3.0 technology from high-end platforms. This technology can optimize the performance of lightweight threads by identifying the fastest core of the processor and making it handle the most critical workload, so that users can obtain excellent processor performance more flexibly and get a better game experience.

Thanks to these leading features, the performance of Intel 10 generation Core can be ahead of competitors in the market. Take 10 generation Core i7- 10870H as an example. This processor is a new generation game artifact, with 8 cores, 16 threads, 2.2GHz main frequency, 5.0GHz acceleration frequency and 65470h three-level cache. The measured data show that the performance of this processor in Tomb Raider: Shadow, Cry of the Island: New Dawn, Total War Legend: Troy, Strange Squad and other games 165438+ 1080p is better than that of AMD Ruilong 7 5800H processor.

What I just said is 10 generation Core mobile processor. Although the 1 1 generation Core mobile processor has not been released, according to the information released by Intel at CES202 1,1generation Core mobile processor i7-1 1 6.

2. Balance between performance and power consumption

We were just talking about the game book. At present, there is another category that is also very popular in the notebook market, and that is thin and light books. For thin and light materials, the test is to balance the performance and power consumption of the processing chip, and improve the performance as much as possible under the premise of controlling power consumption and heating.

This has to talk about the Intel 1 1 generation Core low-voltage processor that has been listed at present. 1 1 generation core processor adopts 10nm SuperFin technology and uses Willow CoveCPU micro-architecture. Compared with the previous generation Sunny Cove architecture, it can provide excellent CPU performance and greatly improve the frequency and power efficiency.

At the same time, 1 1 generation core also adopts Iris Xe-LP GPU with new architecture design, which has significantly improved in asynchronous computing, view instantiation, sampler feedback, display engine and so on. , Iris Xe-LP GPU has up to 2 times the game performance improvement compared with the previous generation. Drive thin and light books and easily run in no man's land. 3. Cry of Crysis: Compared with mainstream 1080p games such as killer 2, the new Dawn has obvious natural advantages over vega architecture that AMD has used for many years.

Let's look at the data again. Take Intel Core i7- 1 185G7 processor and AMD Ruilong 7 4800U as examples, 25. Core i7- 1 185G7 is obviously ahead of the competitors in the running tests such as SYSmark 25, 3DMark Firestrike and MLPerf.

For a thin notebook, it is a high-frequency scene without power supply. It is very important whether the processor can maintain high performance and good energy efficiency ratio under the condition of battery driving. In the next test, it can be seen that the performance output of AMD Ruilong 7 4800U is obviously inhibited in battery mode, while Core i7- 1 185G7 can maintain a high performance output level regardless of power supply or battery drive, and can meet the demand at any time.

Speaking of the balance between performance and power consumption, this is the key point related to the comprehensive experience of thin and light notebooks, and there are many factors that affect the experience of thin and light notebooks, such as sound quality, durability, battery life, noise control and so on. In order to make the thin and light notebook with 1 1 generation Core processor have a unified and good experience in these factors, Intel also launched the Evo platform, which stipulates that the notebook computer based on Intel Evo platform must pass the verification of some key experience indicators.

Backed by the powerful and comprehensive capabilities of 1 1 generation Core processors, the Intel Evo platform has established a set of strict certification standards. Behind it, Intel engineers have worked hard for millions of hours to create excellent notebooks that handle tasks efficiently, cooperated with the top computer manufacturers in the world, and conducted rigorous tests in three major laboratories around the world. After the notebook with 150 or above is selected with a low pass rate of more than 50, the notebook terminal will be labeled as "evo", and behind this harshness, it is the guarantee for the user's extremely perfect and smooth experience. In short, it is enough to buy a good computer and look for the logo of Intel evo.

At this point, Intel is obviously also a complete victory over AMD.

Step 3 be patient

The improvement of notebook battery life is a systematic project, which is related to the processor, screen and power consumption of notebooks. But for chip providers like Intel, what they need to do is to reduce the power consumption of processors and improve energy efficiency.

Reducing the power consumption of the processor is basically to improve the technological level of the processor and optimize the design of the micro-architecture. For Intel 1 1 generation core processors, an important point of view is the innovative SuperFin technology under 10nm process.

"SuperFin" can be understood as "super FinFET" transistor, that is, many improvements have been made on the basis of the original FinFET transistor to meet the requirements of continuous miniaturization of technology. Under SuperFin technology, through a series of operations, Intel has brought more than 20% performance improvement to the processor and further reduced power consumption.

Speaking of which, some netizens may say that the processing technology of AMD's processor next door has reached 7nm. Isn't this more advanced than 1 1 core? What Bian Xiao wants to say here is that the chip manufacturing process has advanced to such an advanced level today, and the figures before the manufacturing process can't represent the performance and power consumption of the final product to a great extent. Before this, I hung Intel 10 nm at TSMC's 5 nm. Don't worry, it's just a detailed introduction in the article "Digital Games". You can have a look.

To put it simply, foundry companies such as TSMC forcibly "push" process iterations through "digital games", but in fact, in terms of high-order parameters such as fin spacing and grid spacing, Intel's 10nm process is actually ahead of competitors.

In terms of technology, as we said before, the Willow Cove CPU micro-architecture adopted by the 1 1 generation core processor greatly improves the frequency and efficiency.

In addition, in addition to the Evo platform's strict requirements for the endurance level of thin and light notebooks:

Combining these characteristics, the notebook equipped with 1 1 generation Core processor will obviously get better endurance performance than its peers.

4. Artificial intelligence

With the continuous popularization of AI technology, many technology companies are actively deploying artificial intelligence services and applying AI to their products. Intel is a typical representative who has long been involved in the AI industry. On 1 1 generation Core processors, Intel upgraded its GNA AI acceleration unit to GNA 2.0. Its main job is speech recognition, and it can provide the performance of 1 GigaOP at the power consumption of 1mW. Intel said that this was calculated by GNA reasoning under the condition of running audio noise suppression workload.

This means that we can have a clearer and more accurate experience on the 1 1 generation Core notebook, whether playing games online, controlling the AI voice assistant or making video calls.

On the other hand, AMD has always adopted a wait-and-see strategy for AI, and has not introduced explicit AI acceleration chips or related technologies into its processor products. So in terms of AI, it is behind Intel.

5. Connectivity

In terms of connectivity, we can look at it from two directions. The first is the connectivity of the network, which mainly depends on the connectivity of the wireless network.

On Intel 1 1 generation Core processors for thin and light notebooks, Wi-Fi 6 (Gig+) connection is also supported. Wi-Fi 6 is a new generation wireless network connection standard. Compared with the previous generation, the wireless network performance has been significantly improved. In addition, the upcoming mobile version of 1 1 generation Core processor already supports Wi-Fi 6E, which is equivalent to the full version of Wi-Fi 6, and is the most advanced wireless connection standard protocol at present. On AMD's side, there has been no built-in wireless solution, so motherboards and laptops equipped with AMD processors are all equipped with third-party solutions, so Intel won again.

Another aspect of connectivity is IO connectivity. In this respect, Intel 1 1 generation Core is also very strong. First look at the display engine. The 1 1 generation core has four 4K processing pipelines, supports two edps, can realize synchronous transmission bandwidth up to 64GB/s, and supports various high-resolution displays.

In terms of external output interface, 1 1 generation core also supports DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0, and also supports technologies such as 8K output, HDR 10, Dolby Vision, 12-bit BT2020 color gamut and adaptive synchronization, and even supports display refresh rate as high as 360Hz.

In addition, 1 1 generation core also introduces PCIe 4.0 bus directly connected to SoC, and the storage bandwidth reaches 8GB/s, which means that on1/generation core thin notebook, high-bandwidth peripherals such as discrete graphics cards will have better performance.

Crucially, the 1 1 generation core also integrates USB4 and Thunderbolt 4, which can meet the needs of external low-latency and high-bandwidth devices.

As for AMD, the support of USB4 and Thunderbolt 4 is not introduced in the connection of external devices, which is a function with high voice from users. From this point of view, Intel is ahead of its competitors again.

In the above content, we compare the current technological progress of Intel and AMD from five key aspects: performance, power consumption, battery life, AI and connectivity. Generally speaking, Intel has achieved the performance ahead of its competitors in these key technical features, and has certain advantages in comprehensiveness, depth and product performance. It can be seen that AMD's strong rise has indeed gained a lot of voice, but on the other hand, Intel is still Intel, and the leading position of products and technologies is still an indisputable fact.

With the advent of the 5G era, the wave of terminal intelligence has become more and more turbulent, and the blueprint for the intelligent interconnection of everything has been rolled out. The future world will be a smart world composed of AI, cloud computing and big data combined with terminals. For technology giants, we should not only pay attention to the current business, but also see the future world. Intel is also a leader in this respect.

As can be seen from Intel's previous annual financial report for 2020, the outstanding performance in this financial report is not only the PC-centric business, but also the revenue of data center business has increased by 16%, reaching $6 1 100 million, and the revenue of Internet of Things business department has reached $777 million, an increase of 16%, and the revenue of MOBILEYE company has increased.

Behind the bright performance of these businesses is Intel's more pursuit of the future smart world, because the key to this smart world lies in data, massive big data. Therefore, Intel is promoting a data-centric strategic transformation.

For example, 20 18, they put forward the idea of manufacturing technology & packaging, architecture, memory & etc. Storage, interconnection, security and software are the six technical pillar strategies, and the innovation of each technology is the key to the future intelligent world.

These six core technology strategies will build a complete product layout from cloud to end with XPU as the upper structure and memory support at all levels in the middle. The so-called XPU is an SVMS architecture composed of scalar, vector, matrix and space, which is produced to meet the huge demand of different types of services in the era of intelligent interconnection of all things, and can be combined with each other in a heterogeneous way, thus meeting the processing needs of different types of data behind rich service types in the future.

It can be said that the Xe-based GPU disclosed by Intel in 20 19, the Superfin technology of 10 nm and the aforementioned hybrid packaging technology, and the Xe-based discrete graphics card for PC and data center introduced by1/kloc-0 in 2020 include1.

It is not difficult to find that Intel has gradually transformed from a single-architecture chip company to a platform-based solution provider covering a complete product line of heterogeneous services, which is not only hardware, but also a complete platform integrating software, services and technology.

In addition, the contract agreement between Intel and TSMC also shows that they are changing from the traditional IDM model to a modern and more flexible IDM model. They did not give up IDM, but devoted themselves to manufacturing expertise, rich intellectual property rights, engineering innovation and other advantageous fields with more focused execution, and improved the flexibility of product design and manufacturing in a way that competitors could not match, thus becoming the only all-round company in the future wisdom era. (Author: Yuan)