The Core i9 10980HK isn’t all that much different to the Core i9 9980HK

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An eight-core/16-thread Core i9 10980HK as much as the next person, but when you stack it up next to the similarly specced Core i9 9980HK, rated to near-enough identical clocks, it s hard to get all that excited about Intel’s latest H-series chips.





Intel’s 10th Gen Comet Lake processors the high end ones with 45W TDPs for gaming laptops, at least will reach new heights when it comes to clock speeds.





The Core i9 10980HK is set to enter the market as the top chip for this generation, fit with a 2.4GHz base clock and 5.3GHz Thermal Velocity Boost clock across its eight cores.





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