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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- 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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IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Our benchmarks are all our own. We decide what is relevant to test. From a microarchitecture standpoint, as long as the system doesn't fail and our tests run, it's good. We'd rather have an opportunity to test reference designs ahead of launch as a base comparison point rather than not at all. I actively encourage AMD, Intel, Qualcomm etc to do this.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
This is a really rude and off-base comment. They're been totally up-front about the limitations of the review hardware and the tests are the same tests they always do.SystemsBuilder - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Ian,Thank you for a deep, insightful and well written review!
Despite Intel's best efforts to to confuse us (biggest job growth at Intel must be marketing with the possible exception of legal), you make it easier to get past the marketing BS and get to the core truths.
This is why I come here.
surt - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Apologies for not knowing where to ask this, but why are we getting cpu reviews when other sites have had their 3080 benchmarks up for more than 48 hours now. Did those sites break embargo, or did Anandtech not get a review part .... what's going on?IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Follow us on twitter. Ryan is currently dealing with West Coast fires and a delayed test bed.surt - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Ah thanks for the answer. I live in CA so yeah ... the fires are out of this world this year. Go team 2020!IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Also, this was an embargoed launch :) I cover CPUs, Ryan does GPUs, and we're on opposite ends of the world.shabby - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
You're in Florida? 😂PeachNCream - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
In this world, there is only Florida. Nothing else aside from the bug-infested swampland of theme parks matters so it may as well simply not exist at all.DannyH246 - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Hahaha Another marketing presentation from www.inteltech.com. Wake me up when you have actual hardware.