As Intel has now officially launched its mobile Kaby Lake chips, we have some of the first reviews, including the flagship Core i7-7500U dual-core SKU.

As you already know, Intel's Kaby Lake CPU architecture is the third one that is based on 14nm manufacturing process, described as sort of a semi-tock in Intel's tick-tock strategy. While the manufacturing process was not changed, it was heavily optimized, allowing Intel to hit some impressively high clocks as well as low consumption, which shows its best side on the Kaby Lake mobile lineup.

According to first performance results coming from Notebookcheck.net, we can see anywhere between 15 to 25 percent efficiency improvements and decent performance improvements of around 5 to 10 percent. It also brings significant performance improvements on the IGP side, resulting in much better general performance.

Notebookcheck also took a detailed look at the reworked video decoder which not only supports all the latest codecs, like the HEVC Main10 but is also much more efficient, something that is quite important in the notebook market.

The Kaby Lake architecture looks like Skylake done right and with all the optimizations and performance improvements, it will be quite interesting to see on how big the impact will be on the desktop market, when those parts launch later this year.





Source: Notebookcheck.net.