11th-gen ‘Tiger Lake H' performance deep-dive: Intel gets back in the game

Intel’s 10nm Tiger Lake H puts it back into the fight with AMD’s best.

- GORDON MAH UNG

Whoa, folks—don’t head for the parking lot because this ball game ain’t over yet. Sure, you’ve been watching Intel’s older 10th-gen H-class CPUs get blasted off the mound all afternoon by Team Ryzen, but the coach just gave the signal and Intel’s new rookie star is warming up in the bullpen: the 11th-gen “Tiger Lake H” processors for gaming and creative laptops.

Unlike the once great but should-have retired-two-seasons-ago 10th-gen Comet Lake chips, Tiger Lake H features truly new cores and is built on Intel’s most advanced 10nm “Super Fin” technology (go.pcworld. com/sprf).

You can read more about Tiger Lake H’s processor lineup here (go.pcworld.com/ tgln), and dig into all the new 11th-gen laptops announced (go.pcworld.com/tglp) so far, but rather than yakety yak, let’s find out just how fast the new 11th-gen chip is.

HOW (AND WHAT) WE TESTED