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
Jim Salter, the author at Ars, replied in the comments on their article that the reason why they disclosed that it was MSI was because they specifically asked Intel to check with MSI whether they could disclose that it was made by them (because MSI might not want this to be compared to their finished products when this is a prototype), whereas other reviewers didn't explicitly ask Intel if they could do so:"I wonder why Anandtech felt the need to conceal the system manufacturer's name."
"They were being respectful, since prototype recipients were asked not to take pictures of innards, not do battery tests, and a few other things due to this very much not being a production laptop.
I would have done the same, except that I specifically asked my Intel rep whether MSI would prefer to be named or not. My rep took a day to find answers, then came back and said that naming MSI was fine as long as we made it clear that this wasn't a retail system."
Spunjji - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Nice! Thanks for the context.Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
The name of the manufacturer isn't the point.m53 - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Intel don't want to provide free marketing to MSI which might make the other OEMs unhappy. That's why they can't say that it is an MSI system.huangcjz - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Jim Salter, the author at Ars, replied in the comments on their article that the reason why they disclosed that it was MSI was because they specifically asked Intel to check with MSI whether they could disclose that it was made by them (because MSI might not want this to be compared to their finished products when this is a prototype), whereas other reviewers didn't explicitly ask Intel if they could do so:"I wonder why Anandtech felt the need to conceal the system manufacturer's name."
"They were being respectful, since prototype recipients were asked not to take pictures of innards, not do battery tests, and a few other things due to this very much not being a production laptop.
I would have done the same, except that I specifically asked my Intel rep whether MSI would prefer to be named or not. My rep took a day to find answers, then came back and said that naming MSI was fine as long as we made it clear that this wasn't a retail system."
Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
The name of the manufacturer isn't the point.wow&wow - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Two chips in a package, so it isn't a monolithic chip even with 10nm?RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
That's soc and the pch dies. The compute is still monolithic.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
But AMD have the PCH on-die... 😬RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Intel needed a kick where it hurts, now it's safe to put the stick back in the storeroom?