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: 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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huangcjz - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
I'm interested in the 28W data, having a laptop which uses the 28W Ice Lake i7-1068NG7, in order to be able to compare.GeoffreyA - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
As always, Ian, we thank you for it and appreciate all the hard work put in. Also, this sort of detail is why people come to AnandTech. Hope you and the family enjoy the rest of the holiday. Please, forget technology for a few days!I enjoyed reading the review and was surprised that TL turned out to be pretty strong; but I suppose that's Sunny/Willow Cove showing its stuff at last. Admittedly, things are murky with power. On AMD's side, there are more cores at better power, an important point, and Zen 3 is on its way too, so all in all, exciting competition up ahead.
RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Thank you Ian for your dedication and efforts. The only website I trust for everything semiconductor related.DigitalFreak - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Intel is worried about AMD in a major way. Their cringe worthy "press day" for Tiger Lake was pathetic. They mentioned AMD more than their own products.RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Lol still better than amd running Intel vs amd on center stage and at every tech show... That's clingy for you.Atleast Intel has there previous gen products.. Lol dare amd to do that.
Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
These two comments are like mirror images of each other. 😬😅huangcjz - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
FML, I literally just spent £2,000 on buying a 13" MacBook Pro with a 2.3 GHz - 4.1 GHz 28W Ice Lake i7-1068NG7 with Gen11 graphics a few weeks ago, and now there's a new 3.0 GHz - 4.8 GHz replacement processor, with graphics which are much faster?! This MacBook Pro model was only launched in May - that's only 4 months ago, and it's already out-dated! I thought that it'd only be up-dated after a year... The only reason I got this one instead of a MacBook Air at half the price was because I ocassionally play Civ VI on it, not enough to justify the 16” model with the discrete graphics, which I couldn’t afford. Otherwise, I’m a very light user of the computer.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
First point - TGL was announced at least a couple of months back.Second - as far as anybody knows the next MacBooks will have Apple-designed ARM processors, so you've probably got the highest-performing Intel-based MBP13 they'll ever release. 👍
Meteor2 - Thursday, October 15, 2020 - link
Slightly confused that you seem to be involved with reviewing Intel components (see comments a little way below), but didn't know about TGL?Meteor2 - Thursday, October 15, 2020 - link
Oh you were quoting Jim Salter nvm 🤦