The Ice Lake Benchmark Preview: Inside Intel's 10nm
by Dr. Ian Cutress on August 1, 2019 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- GPUs
- 10nm
- Core
- Ice Lake
- Cannon Lake
- Sunny Cove
- 10th Gen Core
Gaming Results (15W and 25W)
One of the biggest changes to the Ice Lake design is in the integrated graphics – Intel is now giving more focus and more die area to graphics, something it has arguably been neglecting for several years now. With Ice Lake, we move to a Gen11 graphics architecture, which is almost like the previous Gen9.5 but now with added support for variable rate shading (VRS), moving from 24 EUs to 64 EUs, and memory support up from LPDDR3-2133 to LPDDR4X-3733.
World of Tanks is a very CPU driven benchmark, and having the extra frequency of the 25W processor does help here. We're getting a sizeable uplift from Whiskey Lake, due to the extra EUs and memory frequency.
Our Final Fantasy test seemed to regress in 25W mode, although still within the noise. This test is still GPU bound, so adding the extra TDP to the CPU didn't actually help much. However, comparing to the Whiskey Lake integrated graphics, we've got over a 2x speedup.
Similarly with Civilization, with what is normally our 'IGP' settings, we are still GPU limited here.
One of Intel's newest features is Variable Rate Shading.
If developers add the option, soon to be an easy checkbox in Unity and Unreal, the game can decide to control the rate at which it shades pixels, from calculating every pixel down using one result across a 4x4 grid, to save compute power. Currently the only way to test this is with the 3DMark functional demo.
The new VRS test in 3DMark is designed as a feature test to show the potential uplift effect from enabling variable rate shading within a game. In both 15W and 25W modes, the data saw a good uplift, and we seemed to get more out of the 25W mode than the 15W mode.
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Phynaz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
An AMD laptop?I’m sorry.
peevee - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
"The 1065G7 comes quite close to the fastest desktop parts, however it’s likely it’ll need a desktop memory subsystem in order to catch up in total peak absolute performance."What does it mean exactly? How "desktop memory subsystem" differs from this laptop memory other than module size?
Also, there is compatibility with LPDDR4x? Where are SODIMMs for that?
peevee - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
"The 1065G7 comes quite close to the fastest desktop parts, however it’s likely it’ll need a desktop memory subsystem in order to catch up in total peak absolute performance."What does it mean exactly? How "desktop memory subsystem" differs from this laptop memory other than module size?
Also, there is compatibility with LPDDR4x? Where are SODIMMs for that?
Phynaz - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
People on the internet need to learn how to use google.ilkhan - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
At this point I'm still confused if I should be looking for an Ice Lake laptop come christmas, but more objective testing is always a good thing. Thanks Ian.Farfolomew - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
is anyone else irked by Intel’s naming scheme for the Y-series processors? They’re not even ‘Y’ series marked anymore; that’s a thing of the past! They’re now ‘0’ series (zero), and extremely hard to tell at that.Obviously since Broadwell, and the introduction of Core M, intel marketing has been trying to get rid of that brand. Well now they’ve pretty much accomplished that.
HStewart - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Well I think Core M is officially gone with this version. Naming convention make since - note that none of Core M processors including Skylake Y series ever had quad cores. Big difference is power difference 0 series are 9V while U is 15/28 and also 28. It will be interesting comparing Core i7-1065G7 vs Core i7-1060G7 with only differences appearing to be Watts and FreqIn my opinion what is worst is AMD coming out with Ryzen 7, 5, 3 … making people think they have same as i7, i5, i3,,,
Arbie - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Yeah, everybody has been wildly misled by that numbering. When I bought my R7 1800X I thought it would be just like an i7. But instead I got twice the cores, threads, and cache. I hate it when that happens...Thunder 57 - Friday, August 2, 2019 - link
Hahaha, thanks, that was great! Well done.Phynaz - Saturday, August 3, 2019 - link
And yet it as slower than the i7. Maybe there’s more to performance than more stuff.