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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MadManMark - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I don't quite get the "sardine oil basting AMD" analogy?Is that some English thing, can you Britsplain the meaning for this ignorant Yank?
MamiyaOtaru - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
ironically it's actually a super American pop culture reference: like some other things in the article it's a reference to something from Tiger Kinghuangcjz - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Ars Technica has disclosed that the system was made by MSI, and that it kinda resembles what will eventually become their Prestige 14 Evo system.Oxford Guy - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
"Kinda resembles" doesn't mean it might not have super special cooling to show the chip in an artificially good light.If that level of cooling isn't going to be in the market then the results are marketing distortion.
Oxford Guy - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Before anyone says it's can't be special ask yourself why there are special conditions, like photographing the inside, etc. etc. The review said the cooling is overbuilt and not something for the marketplace.Remember Intel's overbuilt fridge that it used to sucker people?
Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Better cooling won't change the fact that it has a 15W power limit imposed for those particular tests, which Ian confirmed through testing - it just means that temperature won't be the limit. I really, really don't think this is a distorting factor for this comparison.If the OEMs put it into laptops that can't actually cool 15W, that's kind of on them. I suspect it'll happen (thought not as much as it happens with AMD designs, natch).
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
I really think you're likely wrong.Lower temperature means more work for those watts.
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
We are also familiar with Intel's "TDP" versus how much the machines actually draw.I don't trust any numerical claims from Intel. Verify then trust.
Spunjji - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
They verified the numbers...Eh. I give up.
asfletch - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Yeah Dave Lee recognised it as Prestige 14 shell too...wonder why the cloak+dagger...