As you already know, Intel has already launched its 7th generation Core Kaby Lake chips that are based on the new 14nm+ FinFET manufacturing process and now we have some of the first official reviews of the chip.

Abandoning its tick-tock strategy, Intel has launch its 7th generation Core Kaby Lake chips on an improved and optimized 14nm manufacturing process. PCWorld.com managed to get their hands on the latest Dell XPS 13 notebook based on 7th-gen Kaby Lake Core i5-7200U CPU and compare it to previous Dell XPS 13 notebooks, based on 6th generation Skylake Core i5-6200U and the 5th-gen Broadwell Core i5-5200U CPUs.

In a set of benchmarks, the new 7th generation Kaby Lake architecture did not bring a lot of improvements, as you are looking at about 10 percent improvement in terms of performance, which is pretty much what you get moving from generation to generation.

Those running on Skylake CPUs should be fine while those considering switching from Broadwell or even Haswell, might consider it as the gain of 20 to 25 or 30 to 35 percent is certainly a decent upgrade.

The power efficiency is a bit better but one thing that made the different is the new video engine which singificantly outperforms the Skylake counterpart.

In any case, Kaby Lake CPUs are here to stay, at least until we get to magic 10nm manufacturing process which should bring significant changes in performance.

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Source: PCWorld.com.