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: F1 2019
The F1 racing games from Codemasters have been popular benchmarks in the tech community, mostly for ease-of-use and that they seem to take advantage of any area of a machine that might be better than another. The 2019 edition of the game features all 21 circuits on the calendar, and includes a range of retro models and DLC focusing on the careers of Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Built on the EGO Engine 3.0, the game has been criticized similarly to most annual sports games, by not offering enough season-to-season graphical fidelity updates to make investing in the latest title worth it, however the 2019 edition revamps up the Career mode, with features such as in-season driver swaps coming into the mix. The quality of the graphics this time around is also superb, even at 4K low or 1080p Ultra.
To be honest, F1 benchmarking has been up and down in any given year. Since at least 2014, the benchmark has revolved around a ‘test file’, which allows you to set what track you want, which driver to control, what weather you want, and which cars are in the field. In previous years I’ve always enjoyed putting the benchmark in the wet at Spa-Francorchamps, starting the fastest car at the back with a field of 19 Vitantonio Liuzzis on a 2-lap race and watching sparks fly. In some years, the test file hasn’t worked properly, with the track not being able to be changed.
For our test, we put Alex Albon in the Red Bull in position #20, for a dry two-lap race around Austin.
In this case, at 1080p Ultra, AMD and Intel (28W) are matched. Unfortunately looking through the data, the 15 W test run crashed and we only noticed after we returned the system.
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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