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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IanCutress - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
2.14 was NOT AVAILABLE as a mainline version when the test was built. It was recommended for stability that we used the 2.13 stable. REALLYLuminar - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Chill brahSpunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Are you incapable of making a useful post, or do you just choose not to?Luminar - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
https://www.anandtech.com/comments/16069/samsung-v...Spunjji - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
So you're choosing not to. Roger that.Luminar - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Chill brahHyperText - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Chill brahLuminar - Saturday, September 19, 2020 - link
Chill brahMeteor2 - Thursday, October 15, 2020 - link
Well I'm going to thank you for sharing a very interesting article.Reading that, seeing the AVX-512 results in the review, and reading about Larrabee (whose legacy is AVX-512), all underlines what a powerful addition AVX-512 is to x86.
Even if it does need Intel engineers to code, just adding it to NAMD and Gromacs is huge.
shabby - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Intel: let's run our mobile cpu at 50watts, then we'll beat amd!What about battery life?
Who cares!