Intel's Sean Maloney speaking at CES Thursday.
(Credit: Brooke Crothers)
LAS VEGAS--Intel announced more than a dozen new processors at CES
2010 here Thursday.
The Consumer Electronics Show roll-out includes the new mobile Core i3
and mobile Core i5, and additions to the Core i7 line. Performance and
features generally increase with the size of the i identifier number.
In other words, Core i7 processors are typically faster than Core i5
chips.
Intel is touting the better-integrated graphics of the Core i3 and i5
processors. The new "Arrandale" graphics technology has 20 percent
more shaders--an important component for 3D graphics, Intel senior
vice president Sean Maloney said here Thursday. Intel claims that the
graphics performance is roughly 70 percent better than the integrated
graphics in the current Core 2 silicon.
"This is a big leap in graphics performance," said Nathan Brookwood,
principal analyst at Insight64. Brookwood said Intel has done a better
job with its graphics drivers and less-demanding games run
significantly better than the current Core 2 technology. But high-end
gamers will continue to opt for discrete (standalone) graphics,
according to Maloney. "It's probably not enough for a serious gamer,"
Maloney said, in an interview. Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices' ATI
graphics chip unit offer discrete graphics chips.
New Core i series processors
New Core i series processors
(Credit: Intel)