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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isthisavailable - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
You should really move to some newer, more games.Roy2002 - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Do you game a lot with a ultra thin laptop?isthisavailable - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
That's the goal, yeah. I definitely would if I could.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Must admit that I too would appreciate this, but I feel for Ian with the number of tests he's doing already.yeeeeman - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
The big positive from this review is the very promising showing of Xe architecture. 10nm looks OK now, but even if 10nm is sorted now, Intel is one node behind TSMC, so...they still have a lot of work to do. As for the cores, they need fatter cores with smaller cores together. Oh, that is what they will do with Alder Lake. Great.Oxford Guy - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
So, Intel used a giant refrigerator to showcase a part some time back and people justly ridiculed that. And yet, here we are with a mysterious clean and dagger laptop protected by asinine opacity conditions.Maybe it’s time for the tech press to stop enabling Intel’s shenanigans?
Oxford Guy - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Cloak and dagger. Apple’s autodefect didn’t like the phrase apparently.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
It's not like we can buy anything based off this info yet anyway. As a tech fan I like to get an early idea, but I wouldn't be buying a product 'til I see that actual product reviewed.Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
Vaporware doesn't excite me.shoestring - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
On the first page of the article, "The system we have to hand is one of..." should read "The system we have IN hand is one of..."? And "To complicate the issue, Intel by definition is only publically offering..." should be "...publicly offering..."Signed,
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