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
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- 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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deil - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
not rip as intel did respond already few times taking their 5% lead back against ryzen stack.Remember this chip will fight against zen3, which should be ~20% gains on AMD side.
This would be a great chip a year ago it would obliterate 3000 mobile on all fronts BUT against 4800u it seems like a strong contender, but it does not dethrone 4800u as best mobile chip, as you compare 15W with 28W here. This wins in thick bois, while AMD still is unrivaled for thin and light laptops.
FreckledTrout - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Lets not go overboard there buddy. You have TGL in laptops beating AMD's almost 2 year old architectures since they run a little over a year behind using the prior generation architecture in the case of the GPU over 2 years old. When AMD moves to using current architectures in APU's I think things will be pretty darn close CPU side and AMD should win hands down with RDNA2.senttoschool - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Zen3 on mobile is probably at least 9 months away. So TGL is competing against Renoir.AMDSuperFan - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Fortunately we have Big Navi to help us out. I am looking forward to putting Intel back in their shoes with Big Navi.Showtime - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Who is "us" lol. Please go back to back AyMD reddit. We don't condone fanboism here.San Pedro - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
I'm wondering if AMD is trying to push this forward.For now it seems like consumers can choose TGL or Renoir based on their use scenario.
AMDSuperFan - Monday, September 21, 2020 - link
Would it not be glorious for Zen 3 to come in at 5 watts with 50% performance as we can expect? 20% isn't so much but 50% would really change things.TheinsanegamerN - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I wouldnt go that far. GPU wise Intel needs way more power to compete with the 15W reinor. Not to mention any laptop with sufficient thermal headroom can use thirde party software to raise TDP for ryzen 4000 mobile, gaining 15-20% performance in games.Other benchmarks go back and forth. On the surface intel might have a decent chip, but OEM implementation may not have the same performance.
Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
You hit the nail on the head here - it's going to be *highly* dependent on how OEMs implement it. Still, good to see they finally sorted their process out - the efficiency of this is markedly improved, it's basically what I expected from Ice Lake in the first place.AnarchoPrimitiv - Saturday, September 26, 2020 - link
Maybe for literally 3 more weeks until Zen3 comes out, then it's just more embarrassment for Intel added to years of embarrassment... Being beaten by a company with less than a tenth of the resources, there's literally no excuse for it