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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- 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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Drumsticks - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
This comment seems disingenuous. In the power consumption article, even AMD is boosting up to nearly 40W. It looks like Tiger Lake will be more power efficient than Renoir in lightly threaded workloads, and Renoir would be more efficient in heavily threaded ones that can use the entire SoC.Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Renoir boosts up to about 35W across 8 cores. Tiger Lake boosts to 50W across 4. That's a 42% difference. Even if Renoir actually hit 40W, that'd still be a 25% increase in power draw while boosting.JayNor - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
I usually have my laptop plugged in... don't really care how long the battery lasts then. Seems like the ability to choose higher performance is a nice feature.ikjadoon - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Did we look at the same charts? Area under the curve, my friend. In extreme usages for thin-and-light laptops,15 W Renoir: 2842 seconds for 62660 joules
15 W Ice Lake: 4733 seconds for 82344 joules
15 W Tiger Lake: 4311 seconds for 64854 joules
If we're looking at multi-threaded power consumption, Renoir & TGL should be close with a small lead for Renoir.
Instantaneous power draw is higher for Tiger Lake, but that 43 W is for mere seconds and not indicative of actually how high it boosts for the entire period.
Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
We did, I just hadn't had time to take the numbers in fully - and you're absolutely right.RedOnlyFan - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Lol 1st read the article before commenting. Take your fanboy stuff to wccftech you will fit in perfectly.Spunjji - Friday, September 18, 2020 - link
Whatever you say, buddy 🤷Alistair - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
So it is just Ice Lake again without any major improvements outside the integrated GPU people don't care about. Get double the cores for less money with Renoir.Alistair - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
This isn't 2019 anymore... we went from 4 to 8 cores for the same price and each core is +20 percent with AMD in the last 6 months.Spunjji - Thursday, September 17, 2020 - link
Bingo.