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: Deus Ex Mankind Divided
Deus Ex is a franchise with a wide level of popularity. Despite the Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (DEMD) version being released in 2016, it has often been heralded as a game that taxes the CPU. It uses the Dawn Engine to create a very complex first-person action game with science-fiction based weapons and interfaces. The game combines first-person, stealth, and role-playing elements, with the game set in Prague, dealing with themes of transhumanism, conspiracy theories, and a cyberpunk future. The game allows the player to select their own path (stealth, gun-toting maniac) and offers multiple solutions to its puzzles.
DEMD has an in-game benchmark, an on-rails look around an environment showcasing some of the game’s most stunning effects, such as lighting, texturing, and others. Even in 2020, it’s still an impressive graphical showcase when everything is jumped up to the max.
At the minimum settings, all of the integrated graphics are easily playable, with AMD winning at 15 W but the 28 W Tiger Lake goes a bit above that, within reaching distance of the desktop APU. At a more regular 1080p Maximum, the 20 FPS is perhaps a bit too slow for regular gameplay.
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JayNor - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
vs Ice Lake the new TGL architecture doubles the bandwidth of the ring bus, adds pcie4, lpddr5, thunderbolt4 and a much superior GPU ... When will AMD catch up? They still need to add avx512, dlboost, integrate wifi6 and now they are further behind. Or do they just add two more cores and declare it even since they can win at cinebench?RSAUser - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
PCIe 4 will be next gen, and for current it doesn't really matter, pretty much no consumer SSD that can max it, and GPU is questionable.LPDDR5 should be 2022 with their next gen, which also includes PCIe5 by then.
AV512 doesn't matter, not something you run on a laptop, DLBoost is Intel trademarked, there are other ML libraries that AMD uses, and you're not really running ML training on a laptop CPU, you'd use the GPU.
The ring bus piece is an architecture difference, not sure why you're mentioning it? AMD's CCX design is better, Intel will be moving in that direction.
In regards to integrated WiFi 6/802.11ax, that's a separate module added to the mobo, AMD is not a communication tech company.
JayNor - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Intel integrates the Wifi6 high speed digital components into the PCH chiplet in the same package with the cores on the laptop chips.They build a separate wifi6 chip that OEMs can use with the AMD chips.
JayNor - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Intel's ring bus wins..."We can also see that, even in the 15W configuration, Tiger Lake's dual ring bus delivers slightly more throughput than the 4800U's Infinity Fabric, and has 30% more throughput at 28W with dynamic tuning."
https://www.tomshardware.com/features/intel-11th-g...
Rudde - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
You mean Intel caught up with AMD? Intel had a little over half the throughput of Renoir, when Renoir came out. Now Intel has caught up with AMD with Tiger Lake. AMD will likely pull ahead with Cezanne, continuing the back and forth.Spunjji - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Wow, parity at 15W and a win at nearly twice the TDP. Such wins.Seriously, why do you need to pathologically overstate their achievements?
MetaCube - Friday, October 23, 2020 - link
"LPDDR5 should be 2022 with their next gen, which also includes PCIe5 by then." lmaoTheinsanegamerN - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Maybe you dont care about having a better iGPU, but clearly its a selling point.huangcjz - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I care about the integrated GPU. I only buy MacBooks, so AMD isn't a choice. I can't afford £2,400 for the 16" MacBook Pro with discrete graphics.playtech1 - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
I've got some bad news for you... chances of Apple releasing a Tiger Lake MacBook looks very very slim