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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Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Came here to leave an identical comment before I've even read the article 😂DigitalFreak - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
The Tiger King puns are getting old.huangcjz - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I still don't get it...Luminar - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
RIP AMDtipoo - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
You haven't had the...Well I can't say pleasure, of watching Tiger King thenFlunk - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Wow, this naming scheme is even worse than the previous one. I've been patiently explaining to people for years that the number after the I is less important than that last letter.E.G. H > U > Y
I can't even imagine how you'd explain this to someone who isn't a hardcore enthusiat. You basicallly need to look up each CPU number to know where in the stack it is. Might as well give up on the numbers entirely.
wr3zzz - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I am with you but it sounds like the 85 in 1185G7 is the new U.ingwe - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Agree with Ian and Andrei. The power/naming shenanigans are just miserable.Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Intel's product naming division is its own circle of hell.CajunArson - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
You guys really REALLY need to update NAMD to the 2.14 nightly builds to get a real idea of what Willow Cove can do in a workload that is very heavily used in HPC: https://www.hpcwire.com/2020/08/12/intel-speeds-na...