How much faster While we havent had the opportunity to benchmark Kaby Lake Rprocessors against their Kaby Lake predecessors or the sweet Ryzen chips from AMD, we do have lots and lots of bold speed claims from Intel itself. These claims revolve around the 1. Kaby Lake Rprocessorsthose are the ones youre likely to find in super thin and light laptops Think the Dell XPS 1. Razer Stealth though no companies have announced support for these processors yet. According to Intel, Kaby Lake R is an average of 4. Kaby Lake when it comes to crunching numbers in Excel. Intel also claims it can process photographs in Adobe Lightroom up to 2. The biggest speed claims come when Intel compared Kaby Lake R to processors from five years ago. According to the CPU maker, a 4. K video can be rendered in just three minutes when it would have taken 4. This kind of speed comparison is Intels way of enticing old computer owners into an upgrade. What about battery life In the case of the first processors from the new Kaby Lake R family, Intel is claiming up to 1. K content. In the same tests on Kaby Lake last year Intel averaged around 7 hours of battery life. Thats a whole lot more Defenders you can watch on your laptop in one sitting. Is there anything else special about it There is one very cool thing about Intels latest processors. Its that time of year when Intel, the largest maker of laptop and desktop processors in the world, announces the guts of your future PC. These CPUs are always a. The B8 Audi A4 Avant sold in America from 20082012 was the last true Audi wagon to make it our shores before it got a lift, some cladding and was renamed the Allroad. The company is packing more cores onto the processor itself. So the 1. 5 watt processors that are the focus of todays announcement have four cores on them. In previous generations there were just two. More cores means the processor has the ability to process more data more efficiently. People who perform processor intensive tasks, like rendering video or images, will see the best performance upgrade from the additional cores. When can I buy these things If youre hoping you can just go out and snag a Kaby Lake Rprocessor today and jam it in your PC you are out of luck. Intel has only announced its 1. U Series processors today. Those are the ones appearing in laptops and 2 in 1s. Which means acquiring them depends on which companies, like Dell and Asus, actually release products with this brand of Intel inside. Other Kaby Lake R processors, such as desktop processors and those intended for ultra lower power computing devices like the Apple Macbook, will be announced over the coming months. For now there are just four processors available If youre hoping to buy a laptop with Kaby Lake R inside keep a close watch on whats announced at Gamescon this week in Cologne and IFA in Berlin next week. Update 83. 1 This post originally referred to Kaby Lake R as Coffee Lake. That is inaccurate and the two microarchitectures are different. We regret the error.