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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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...