Comet Lake is

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for its 10th generation

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s. They are manufactured using Intel's third 14 nm Skylake process refinement, succeeding the Whiskey Lake U-series mobile processor and

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desktop processor families. Intel announced low-power mobile Comet Lake-U CPUs on August 21, 2019, H-series mobile CPUs on April 2, 2020, desktop Comet Lake-S CPUs April 30, 2020, and Xeon W-1200 series workstation CPUs on May 13, 2020. Comet Lake processors and Ice Lake 10 nm processors are together branded as the Intel "10th Generation Core" family. Intel officially launched Comet Lake-Refresh CPUs on the same day as 11th Gen Core Rocket Lake launch. The low-power mobile Comet Lake-U Core and Celeron 5205U CPUs were discontinued on July 7, 2021.

Generational changes

All Comet Lake CPUs feature an updated

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with CNVio2 controller with

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and external AX201 CRF module support. Comet Lake-S compared to Coffee Lake-S Refresh * Up to ten CPU cores * Hyperthreading on all models, except for Celeron * Single core turbo boost up to 5.3 GHz (300 MHz higher); all-core turbo boost up to 4.9 GHz; Thermal Velocity Boost for Core i9; Turbo Boost Max 3.0 support for Core i7, i9 * DDR4-2933 memory support for Core i7 and i9; DDR4-2666 for Core i3, Core i5, Pentium Gold, Celeron * 400-series chipset based on the

LGA 1200 LGA 1200 is a zero insertion force flip-chip land grid array (LGA) CPU socket, socket, compatible with Intel desktop Central processing unit, processors Comet Lake (10th gen) and Rocket Lake (11th-gen) desktop CPUs, which was released in April 202 ...

socket Comet Lake-H compared to Coffee Lake-H Refresh * Higher turbo frequencies by up to 300 Mhz * DDR4-2933 memory support * Thermal Velocity Boost for Core i7 and i9 Comet Lake-U compared to Whiskey Lake-U * Up to six CPU cores * Higher turbo frequencies by up to 300 MHz * DDR4-2666 and LPDDR3-2133 memory support One notable architectural change of Comet Lake from its predecessors is removal of

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instruction set extensions. Entry-level CPUs like the i3 series no longer support ECC memory.

List of 10th generation Comet Lake processors

Desktop processors

Pentium and Celeron CPUs lack

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support. The i9-10900K and 10900KF support Thermal Velocity Boost up to 5.3 GHz. The i9-10900, i9-10900F and i9-10850K support Thermal Velocity Boost up to 5.2 GHz.

Workstation processors

Comet Lake-W CPUs require W480 chipset. Xeon W-1290 and W-1290P support Thermal Velocity Boost up to 5.2 GHz and 5.3 GHz respectively.

Mobile processors

H-series (High power)

Core i5 CPUs lack Thermal Velocity Boost.

U-series (Medium power)

The following SKUs additionally support Intel vPro and LPDDR4-2933 memory: i5-10310U, i7-10610U, i7-10810U. Pentium and Celeron CPUs lack

support.

List of 10th generation Comet Lake Refresh processors

Desktop processors

On March 16, 2021, Intel announced the refreshed models of Comet Lake Core i3 and Pentium Gold processors. These processors have the same characteristics as their original parts, albeit with a 100MHz higher frequency and the last digit changing from zero to five.

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