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: 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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SplinesNS - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
The Sardine oil and Tiger King references make it hard for an international reader to actually make sense of content here. I am not sure who the target audience is for this website but I would kindly request you not to use very culture specific references on a technology website.Bik - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
It is subjective, but I think it fun and I'm an international reader. Without these references the article would be too dry. I think one can still get 100% technical detail and not knowing the puns.Spunjji - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Seconded.Samus - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
This is criminal. They are going to sell a CPU of the same model and allow OEM's to have it perform vastly different without disclosing the actual performance? What's next, bring back the PR rating?Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
To be fair, this isn't new. Intel CPUs have differed significantly in performance depending on cooling implementation on the final product for a while, and AMD have similar issues now.Oxford Guy - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
How new this is is less important than the fact that it's a scam.Spunjji - Sunday, September 20, 2020 - link
It's relevant when someone's talking about it like it's a new problem..?maroon1 - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Clock for clock comparison is uselessThe fact that Tiger Lake beats Ice Lake at same power means than Tiger Lake is superior out of the two. Period
Also iGPU performance boost is huge. It beats 65w APU in some cases. But there is some inconsistency because some cases it does not beat 15w APU. It might be because of drivers ??!
yeeeeman - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Damn, willow cove is actually lower ipc vs sunny??? Wow, that was unexpected! Intel needs to improve the ipc of the next gen core massively if they want to stay on top. I know the rumours say 50% better than skylake but even that, if it will happen will not be sufficient.m53 - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Willow cove has ~20% better IPC than Zen2. Golden Cove is rumored to add another 25% taking the lead to ~45% by mid 2021. Will Zen3 be able to close the 45% IPC deficit? AMD says no. By their own best case projection they expect 15% IPC. That would pul Zen3 at a 30% IPC deficit vs Golden Cove. As you can see the IPC deficit keeps widening.