Last year, Intel and AMD made its rumored collaboration official, with Intel announcing that the upcoming Core-G series processors would be paired with graphics from AMD. Although things have been keep quiet, Intel has now listed the specs for its Core-G series with RX Vega M graphics.



With the Core-G series, Intel unveils four quad-core Kaby Lake processors (H-series mobile parts) paired with Vega GPU and HBM2 memory. These CPUs will be used in mobile devices and in all-in-one or compact systems like Intel's upcoming 8th Gen NUC8i7HVK and NUC8i7HNK. The new series of processors includes four Core i7 and one Core i5. The Core i5 will come with Hyper-Threading enabled, in other words the difference between the Core i5 and Core i7 chips will be clockspeeds and the amount of L3 cache.

The Radeon GPU offers two RX Vega M configurations: GH (Graphics High) and GL (Graphics Low). The GH version will sport higher clock speeds and 24 CUs/1536 stream processors, while the GL model packs 20 CUs/1280 SPs. Furthermore, the Vega M GH have a 100W TDP while the GL variant comes with 65W design. It's important to note that this is total power for both CPU and GPU. The Radeon GPUs will offer the same softwares that you can find with discrete GPUs like: Radeon Chill, Radeon ReLive, WattMan and FreeSync.

In terms of performance, the flagship model should be fast like a GTX 1060 Max-Q 6GB. Compared to a three-year-old i7-4720HQ with GTX 960M, Intel claims that upcoming chips will be 2.0-2.7 times faster. So far Intel hasn't revealed the full pricing details on the parts and we should see first laptops and NUCs based on Core-G series after March 2018.




Source: Intel