Intel Announces 10th Gen Comet Lake vPro: All 400-Series Chipsets Supported

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With every launch of desktop processors, Intel typically follows it up with a series of vPro enabled parts in order for the company to provide solutions through its partners to business customers that require extra levels of manageability and security. This is all part of Intel’s SIPP (Stable IT Platform Program), with security features such as Intel Hardware Shield, and manageability though Intel Endpoint Management Assistant. The new hardware will offer up to 10 cores on desktop and 8 cores on mobile. One poignant part of the announcement is that when asked, Intel stated that 400-series chipsets will be supported. When asked for confirmation, Intel repeated this line, indicating that vPro now goes beyond traditional Qx70 motherboard support and a fundamental shift in Intel’s vPro paradigm.

Intel’s new 10[sup]th[/sup] Gen Comet Lake vPro processors come in three flavors: mobile, desktop, and workstation, with the latter being part of another announcement for today, the launch of the new Xeon W-1200 product family. All of these processors at heart contain the same Comet Lake silicon we’ve seen launched in other 10[sup]th[/sup] Gen product lines for consumers, however various additional features that were disabled in those parts are enabled here. In the past Intel used to offer separate SKU lines for the processors, but now they are named one and the same. Customers will have to look out for ‘Intel vPro Support’ listed in the product description in order to determine if the product has it.

Starting with the mobile CPUs, most of these are H-series class, meaning 45 W, but a few will be 15 W as well.

Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake vPro - Mobile Processors

AnandTech Cores Base Freq Turbo TB2 Turbo TB3 Turbo TVB TDP IGP

H-Series

i9-10855H 8C/16T 2.4 5.3? ? ? 45 W 630
i7-10875H 8C/16T 2.3 5.1? ? ? 45 W 630
i7-10850H 6C/12T 2.7 5.1? ? ? 45 W 630
i5-10400H 4C/8T 2.6 4.6? ? ? 45 W 630
W-10885M 8C/16T 2.4 5.3? ? ? 45 W 630
W-10855M 6C/12T 2.8 5.1? ? ? 45 W 630

U-Series

i7-10810U 6C/12T 1.1 4.9? ? ? 15 W 630
i7-10610U 4C/8T 1.8 4.9? ? ? 15 W 630
i5-10310U 4C/8T 1.7 4.4? ? ? 15 W 630

We’re still waiting on extra data that wasn’t provided in our briefings, however these CPUs will support similar features to the consumer counterparts, including the extra vPro add-ins.
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