Intel’s Tiger Lake 11th Gen Core i7-1185G7 Review and Deep Dive: Baskin’ for the Exotic
by Dr. Ian Cutress & Andrei Frumusanu on September 17, 2020 9:35 AM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- 10nm
- Tiger Lake
- Xe-LP
- Willow Cove
- SuperFin
- 11th Gen
- i7-1185G7
- Tiger King
Xe-LP GPU Performance: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
WoT is an easy win for Intel.
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tipoo - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Sounds like their next Macbook releases are going to be Apple Silicon, not sure we'll ever see a TGL Apple system.AMDSuperFan - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
What worries me the most is that this Tiger is better than Renoir in every way possible. I feel like Intel is the Apple of laptops now and our AMD are some knockoff tablet with good specs but not up to snuff. This 4 core beating the 8 core Renoir is terrible. I know we have Big Navi coming and that should save us here, but right now the Nvidia and Intel products are really bad for us fans.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
I worry about the mental health of the person running this account.eddman - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Why intel didn't do 6-8 core low power models again? 10nm too power hungry? Low yields and/or low manufacturing capacity?Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Yes!But seriously, all of the above.
eek2121 - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Fab capacity.RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Hahaha. Fake informationSpunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
What's your explanation then, Red? "They didn't want to"?They compete well with AMD at 15W but need 28W to get full performance from the design. Squeezing twice as many cores in would push them way, way off the bottom of their efficiency curve. They're running more complex cores than AMD and they require more power, no way around that.
If yields were good enough they'd have had 8-core Ice Lake designs out taking the fight back to AMD on the desktop, but mysteriously they skipped those and rehashed Skylake again. It's almost like something was holding them back...
JayNor - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Intel chose to integrate high performance wifi6, thunderbolt 4, avx512, dlboost, pcie4 features rather than the more small hammers approach.Alder Lake will have even smaller and lower power cores than AMD's, so perhaps next year the choice for Cinebench processing will get funny.
RSAUser - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
You mentioned this again, so I'll comment again:WiFi 6/802.11ax: AMD does not do networking equipment, it's also not part of the CPU, it's an
extra module attached to the mobo.
PCIe 4: No benefit in laptops, there's no SSD that can really max it out consumer side and GPU wise. PCIe 4 consumes a lot more power than 3rd gen.
Thunderbolt 4: You actually mean USB 4.
AVX512: Not many things actually use this, a majority of those use-cases can just go GPU, and you're not really running an AVX512 workload on a laptop.
DLBoost: Intel's ML library, you're not training ML libraries on a laptop CPU, you'd near always want to use a GPU instead, plus that specific one is Intel's trademark one, you'd use open source alternatives.
AMDs' leaked roadmaps are USB 4 and PCIe 4 in 2022, and here you didn't mention LPDDR5, which is also included in that release.