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: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
WoT is an easy win for Intel.
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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.