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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AMDSuperFan - Monday, September 21, 2020 - link
What really concerns me is this Intel Tiger is built on a 10mm process that looks like it is as good or better than the TSMC 7nm process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process. They do not talk about the +++ superfin variants for node density. We need Super Navi to fight against this. We know for laptops or gaming, nobody can touch big navi. Nvidia cannot. It will be much faster I think than 3090 or even 4090 by everything I see. Nvidia might be out of their league finally and put into their place. I would not be surprised to see Big Navi designs at 150w with 10x the speed.Rtx dude - Monday, September 28, 2020 - link
3090 is twice the size of 3080. So, it will ebd big NAVI in performance and bebchmarksShowtime - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Sorry, but with your name alone, we can't take anything you say seriously.MrVibrato - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Oh, but there are quite a few who couldn't resist the bait. Which, and this is one of my guilty pleasures, makes for entertaining reading...hecksagon - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
He's referencing the performance improvement we will see in AMD's integrated graphics once the architectural improvements from Big Navi trickle down.dotjaz - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
In the meantime, Intel wins for the next 8 months or so. We don't even know if Van Gogh can beat TGL yet.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
That's a charitable interpretation, but actually this account is just a sockpuppet for an Intel shill who got tired of waiting for AMD fanboys to show up and so made one of their own. Everything they post is nonsensical junk.AMDSuperFan - Monday, September 21, 2020 - link
Even as a superfan it seems obvious that our amd cannot fight against this new technology. How is a usurper faster than us on video for gaming? As the owner of ATI, we are a video gaming company. Nvidia with their Voodoo 2 technology has nothing on ATI. My 7900 card is still fast for many games even today - but the same cannot be said for Voodoo 2 cards. But we have big things on the future and we should get back our championship in 2022.PixyMisa - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
This was almost funny once.SarahKerrigan - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Big Navi is a multi-hundred-watt dGPU. This is a laptop processor. They don't compete with each other at all.