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: Final Fantasy XV
Upon arriving to PC, Final Fantasy XV: Windows Edition was given a graphical overhaul as it was ported over from console. As a fantasy RPG with a long history, the fruits of Square-Enix’s successful partnership with NVIDIA are on display. The game uses the internal Luminous Engine, and as with other Final Fantasy games, pushes the imagination of what we can do with the hardware underneath us. To that end, FFXV was one of the first games to promote the use of ‘video game landscape photography’, due in part to the extensive detail even at long range but also with the integration of NVIDIA’s Ansel software, that allowed for super-resolution imagery and post-processing effects to be applied.
In preparation for the launch of the game, Square Enix opted to release a standalone benchmark. Using the Final Fantasy XV standalone benchmark gives us a lengthy standardized sequence to record, although it should be noted that its heavy use of NVIDIA technology means that the Maximum setting has problems - it renders items off screen. To get around this, we use the standard preset which does not have these issues. We use the standard quality settings.
OK so testing at 8K was a complete accident. In that pure GPU limited scenario, Intel is ahead. When at 720p in a more standard combination of settings, Intel's 28 W goes above the 65 W desktop integrated graphics, but is behind when stuck in 15 W mode.
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IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
2.14 was NOT AVAILABLE as a mainline version when the test was built. It was recommended for stability that we used the 2.13 stable. REALLYLuminar - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Chill brahSpunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Are you incapable of making a useful post, or do you just choose not to?Luminar - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
https://www.anandtech.com/comments/16069/samsung-v...Spunjji - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
So you're choosing not to. Roger that.Luminar - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
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Chill brahMeteor2 - Thursday, October 15, 2020 - link
Well I'm going to thank you for sharing a very interesting article.Reading that, seeing the AVX-512 results in the review, and reading about Larrabee (whose legacy is AVX-512), all underlines what a powerful addition AVX-512 is to x86.
Even if it does need Intel engineers to code, just adding it to NAMD and Gromacs is huge.
shabby - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Intel: let's run our mobile cpu at 50watts, then we'll beat amd!What about battery life?
Who cares!