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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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 🤦