Which cpu in spring 13" macbook pro?

[ls1dreams]

Assuming the 13" macbook pro is released in spring 2020 with a new keyboard, which intel cpu would it be likely to use at this point? I'm only interested in the higher performing models, not the 1.4ghz lower powered non-TB macbooks.

Tiger lake cpu's won't be out until late 2020.

From what I see in recent models:

2019 2.4ghz = I5-8279U (28w coffee lake? or kaby lake refresh? chip), which is quite old at this point.

From what I can see on their roadmap it would be whiskey lake or comet lake for the 28w variant with iris graphics? Or are those lower performing chips since they seem to be 15w chips. Having trouble finding what's in between the 8xxx U-series and tiger lake.

 

[darkmatter343]

Probably the 10th gen **Comet Lake** if I had to guess. Intel is in real short supply of the newer (*real) Icelake 10nm Chips with the newer Iris Plus graphics. Lenovo, Dell, and other's can't even get their hands on them in a big quantity, so yeah, probably 10th gen but the Comet Lake version.

 

[ls1dreams]

Probably the 10th gen **Comet Lake** if I had to guess. Intel is in real short supply of the newer (*real) Icelake 10nm Chips with the newer Iris Plus graphics. Lenovo, Dell, and other's can't even get their hands on them in a big quantity, so yeah, probably 10th gen but the Comet Lake version.

Odd because they don't have any higher clocked chips for comet lake. I only see:

i5-10210U: 1.6 base / 4.2 turbo (4 cores)
i5-10510U: 1.8 base / 4.9 turbo (4 cores)
i5-10710U: 1.1 base / 4.7 turbo (6 cores)

None of these are similar to existing 28w chips that have higher base frequencies.

These are 15w chips with UHD graphics, not iris. I don't think there's any chance Apple uses these.

 

[darkmatter343]

Odd because they don't have any higher clocked chips for comet lake. I only see:

i5-10210U: 1.6 base / 4.2 turbo (4 cores)
i5-10510U: 1.8 base / 4.9 turbo (4 cores)
i5-10710U: 1.1 base / 4.7 turbo (6 cores)

None of these are similar to existing 28w chips that have higher base frequencies.

These are 15w chips with UHD graphics, not iris. I don't think there's any chance Apple uses these.

Apple has custom Intel sku's that don't necessarily show up in CPU lists, so it's possible some comet lake 28w parts exists, or they've adjusted the i5 10510U to a higher TDP. Intel can't make enough 10nm chips right now, just look around at the industry and it's clear all the vendors are hurting.

My best guess would be that Apple refreshes the 13" soon with the newer keyboard design, and leaves the CPU as is, or they will also add in the 10th gen *Comet Lake*. Ice Lake we'll probably see in a refresh late summer, early fall when the supply issues (hopefully) clear up.

 

[ls1dreams]

What's with the weird AMD quote above?

 

[pneves1975]

Probably the 10th gen **Comet Lake** if I had to guess. Intel is in real short supply of the newer (*real) Icelake 10nm Chips with the newer Iris Plus graphics. Lenovo, Dell, and other's can't even get their hands on them in a big quantity, so yeah, probably 10th gen but the Comet Lake version.

If that's the case this upgrade just got a lot less interesting. Well, see you in 2021 Apple.

 

[darkmatter343]

What's with the weird AMD quote above?

no idea 😆, but fixed.

 

[ls1dreams]

If that's the case this upgrade just got a lot less interesting. Well, see you in 2021 Apple.

Q4 2020 macbook pro is probably the one most people want. By then it'll have the good keyboard, wifi6, intel xe graphics (2x performance), and av1 hardware decoding on the chip.

Q1 2021 though could be a big performance/ipc upgrade. Some rumors are that golden cove will be +20% or more, a "sandy bridge moment" of performance leaps. That's quite a ways out though... ideally that's the one I'd pickup but I have an ancient macbook so not sure I can wait another year+