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Kaby Lake G
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General Info
Designer	Intel, AMD
Manufacturer	Intel, GlobalFoundries
Introduction	November 6, 2017 (announced) January 7, 2018 (launched)
Microarchitecture
ISA	x86-64 (x86)
Microarchitecture	Kaby Lake
Word Size	8 octets 16 nibbles 64 bit
Process	14 nm 0.014 μm 1.4e-5 mm
Technology	CMOS

Kaby Lake G (KBL-G) is the name of the core for Intel's high-performance line of mobile processors based on the Kaby Lake microarchitecture and incorporate a discrete AMD Vega graphics processor. These chips are targeted towards ultimate mobile gaming experience. Kaby Lake G processors are fabricated on Intel's enhanced 14nm+ process and for graphics, GlobalFoundries 14 nm process.

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Overview

Kaby Lake G based processors are a 2-chip solution - the microprocessor and the chipset. Those parts are BGA and are soldered onto the motherboard. The microprocessor is connected to the chipset via 4 of the chip's 20 PCIe lanes using Intel's proprietary Direct Media Interface 3.0 (DMI 3.0), allowing for 8 GT/s transfer rate per lane.

Graphics

Those processors are unique in the fact that this is the first time Intel has integrated a discrete graphics processor into the same package as the microprocessor. This is also the first time they are using a competitor graphics processor. Those parts incorporate an AMD GPU based on the Vega microarchitecture and incorporate their own 4 GiB of high-bandwidth memory 2 (HBM2). The HBM solution is connected to the graphics processor using Intel's EMIB, a high-speed in-package interconnect solution.

The CPU itself is connected to the GPU using 8 of the other PCIe lanes, leaving the 8 remaining lanes for other peripherals to communicate with the CPU directly.

Common Features

All Kaby Lake G processors have the following:

• Dual-channel Memory
  • Up to DDR3L-1600, DDR4-2400
  • Up to 64 GiB
• 8x PCIe
  • 20x in total, 4 of the 20 are used by the bus and 8 for the GPU as described above
• quad-core with Hyper-Threading (8 threads)
• Everything up to AVX2 (SMM, FPU, NX, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES, AVX, and AVX2)

Graphics

Those processors have superior graphics capabilities as well as 4 GiB of HBM 2 cache.

• HBM 2
  • 4 GiB
  • 1,024 bit
    • @ 800 MHz (204.8 GB/s peak bandwidth)
    • @ 700 MHz (179.2 GB/s peak bandwidth)
• Graphics
  • Integrated HD Graphics 630 (Gen9.5 GT2)
    • Base frequency of 350 MHz
    • Burst frequency of 1.1 GHz
  • Discrete Vega-based GPUs
    • Custom Radeon RX Vega M Graphics
      • Radeon RX Vega M GH
        • 24 Compute Units
        • 1,536 Stream processors, 64 pix/clk
        • 3.7 TFLOPS peak performance
      • Radeon RX Vega M GL
        • 20 Compute Units
        • 1280 Stream processors, 32 pix/clk
        • 2.6 TFLOPS peak performance
• BGA package

Kaby Lake G Processors

	List of Kaby Lake G-based Processors
	Main processor									Graphics Processors
Model	Price	Launched	Family	C	T	L3$	TDP	Frequency	Turbo	GPU	Base	iGPU Burst
i5-8305G	7 January 2018		Core i5	4	8	6 MiB 6,144 KiB 6,291,456 B 0.00586 GiB	65 W 65,000 mW 0.0872 hp 0.065 kW	2.8 GHz 2,800 MHz 2,800,000 kHz	3.8 GHz 3,800 MHz 3,800,000 kHz	HD Graphics 630, Radeon RX Vega M GL	350 MHz 0.35 GHz 350,000 KHz , 931 MHz 0.931 GHz 931,000 KHz	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 KHz , 1,011 MHz 1.011 GHz 1,011,000 KHz
i7-8705G	7 January 2018		Core i7	4	8	8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB	65 W 65,000 mW 0.0872 hp 0.065 kW	3.1 GHz 3,100 MHz 3,100,000 kHz	4.1 GHz 4,100 MHz 4,100,000 kHz	HD Graphics 630, Radeon RX Vega M GL	350 MHz 0.35 GHz 350,000 KHz , 931 MHz 0.931 GHz 931,000 KHz	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 KHz , 1,011 MHz 1.011 GHz 1,011,000 KHz
i7-8706G	7 January 2018		Core i7	4	8	8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB	65 W 65,000 mW 0.0872 hp 0.065 kW	3.1 GHz 3,100 MHz 3,100,000 kHz	4.1 GHz 4,100 MHz 4,100,000 kHz	HD Graphics 630, Radeon RX Vega M GL	350 MHz 0.35 GHz 350,000 KHz , 931 MHz 0.931 GHz 931,000 KHz	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 KHz , 1,011 MHz 1.011 GHz 1,011,000 KHz
i7-8809G	7 January 2018		Core i7	4	8	8 MiB 8,192 KiB 8,388,608 B 0.00781 GiB	100 W 100,000 mW 0.134 hp 0.1 kW	3.1 GHz 3,100 MHz 3,100,000 kHz	4.2 GHz 4,200 MHz 4,200,000 kHz	HD Graphics 630, Radeon RX Vega M GH	350 MHz 0.35 GHz 350,000 KHz , 1,063 MHz 1.063 GHz 1,063,000 KHz	1,100 MHz 1.1 GHz 1,100,000 KHz , 1,190 MHz 1.19 GHz 1,190,000 KHz
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See also

Kaby Lake Kaby Lake X Kaby Lake DT Kaby Lake S Kaby Lake G Kaby Lake H Kaby Lake R Kaby Lake U Kaby Lake Y

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