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  The immediate takeaway on 10th-gen Comet Lake H-series: 45W TDP, four/six/eight cores with hyperthreading, very high turbo clockrates. [credit:
  Intel Corporation ]

Yesterday, Intel announced the launch of its newest laptop CPUs, the tenth generation Comet Lake H-series. If you’re not up on all the minutiae of CPU naming schemes, H-series parts (for both Intel and AMD) are specialty high performance parts with much higher thermal design power than the standard U-series, and without on-die integrated graphics.

Pay careful attention to the word “fastest”

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  When Intel says “fastest” here, it’s still referring to turbo clock speed. We highly recommend reading the fine print. [credit:
  Intel Corporation ]

The big news Intel is pushing on the tenth series Comet Lake H-series is their high turbo clockrate. All of the i7 SKUs, as well as the lone i9, are capable of breaking 5GHz on the high end of their turbo clock rate.

Most consumers would define the “fastest” processor in terms of real performance—time to complete benchmarks, frames per second achieved in AAA gaming titles, and so forth. Intel talks a lot about the “fastest” processor, but seems careful to hide their definitions away in the fine print.