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: 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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I just got a new laptop for work, with the i7-1165G.At home we have two laptops with Ryzen (a Zephyrus with 4800HS and a Lenovo Ideapad with 5500U).
After 2 months with the 1165G I feel compelled to post a note on this 1.5y-old thread to share what immense piece of garbage the 1165G is.
I was coming from a 6-years old Toshiba with Intel's i7-5500u (what a coincidence, no?) and the 6-years performance jump is ridiculous. The laptop with the 1165G is a hot mess, with barely more than 4hrs real-life battery even in full battery-saving mode. In 2022 I find it not acceptable for a 1400eur laptop, especially, as the Lenovo is snappier, has >6hrs battery, 2 more cores and half the price.
What a major rip-off Tiger Lake is.