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
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- Intel
- 10nm
- Tiger Lake
- Xe-LP
- Willow Cove
- SuperFin
- 11th Gen
- i7-1185G7
- Tiger King
Xe-LP GPU Performance: Civilization VI
Originally penned by Sid Meier and his team, the Civilization series of turn-based strategy games are a cult classic, and many an excuse for an all-nighter trying to get Gandhi to declare war on you due to an integer underflow. Truth be told I never actually played the first version, but I have played every edition from the second to the sixth, including the fourth as voiced by the late Leonard Nimoy, and it a game that is easy to pick up, but hard to master.
Benchmarking Civilization has always been somewhat of an oxymoron – for a turn based strategy game, the frame rate is not necessarily the important thing here and even in the right mood, something as low as 5 frames per second can be enough. With Civilization 6 however, Firaxis went hardcore on visual fidelity, trying to pull you into the game. As a result, Civilization can taxing on graphics and CPUs as we crank up the details, especially in DirectX 12.
Civ6 is a game that enjoys lots of CPU performance, so we can see the desktop APU out front here. The eight cores of the 4800U get ahead of the 15 W version of Tiger Lake in both of our tests, although the 28 W power mode gets an 8% lead in the CPU-limited test.
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Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Really not sure what you're chatting about here - the Renoir system on test uses LPDDR4X at the same frequency as the TGL system.The only really relevant query would be over the thermal design of the system, but even then, the power consumption charts (did you check them?) show that the TGL system sticks to its limits in 15W mode.
Basically it feels like you're scrabbling for complaints that aren't really justified.
proflogic - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
*yawn* Looks like I'll skip another generation. It looks like PCIE ACS started getting into root ports with ICL, so I was hoping for more impressive performance gains with TGL (probably shouldn't have expected much with still having 4 cores). For my intended workloads, this generation isn't worth the investment. YMMV.I'm probably waiting for whenever AMD gets USB4 into their platform.
ksec - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Those GPU benchmarks looks very strange. And some are missing the AMD 15W variants others are missing Intels.....So the graph looks very unbalanced.
IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Limited time to test. I set the gaming benchmark script to run overnight, and until I actually look at the output data, I won't know if a particular test has failed or not run properly. Then Intel asked for the system back on Sunday.I technically went on holiday from Monday (booked ages ago), had to take the Lenovo AMD laptop with me to test in the hotel room, and lost two days of holiday to writing up the review. Turns out in the middle of nowhere you can't really download borderlands 3 in a reasonable time scale.
ksec - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Thanks Ian on the hard work.I dont know how the publisher or other people thinks. Personally I wish this would be first thing spelled out in the article. It also felt like Intel is rushing things a little bit this time.asfletch - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Wow you can still travel? Not sure whether envious...(Australian here, locked down to 5km radius).Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Damn! That's dedication, but I sincerely hope you get some proper time out soon to make up for it. 👍MCPicoli - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Locking security fixes behind "premium" versions? How about NO?ballsystemlord - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
I agree. Security only for businesses is stupid.WaltC - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Wake me in six months if and when you tag a retail unit to test...;) Intel is so thoughtful to send out unfinished units for Intel-managed reviews with pre-conditions and canned scenarios to try and make it appear to equal or exceed AMD's presently shipping, finished products. Yawn...what else is new?