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: World of Tanks
Albeit different to most of the other commonly played MMO or massively multiplayer online games, World of Tanks is set in the mid-20th century and allows players to take control of a range of military based armored vehicles. World of Tanks (WoT) is developed and published by Wargaming who are based in Belarus, with the game’s soundtrack being primarily composed by Belarusian composer Sergey Khmelevsky. The game offers multiple entry points including a free-to-play element as well as allowing players to pay a fee to open up more features. One of the most interesting things about this tank based MMO is that it achieved eSports status when it debuted at the World Cyber Games back in 2012.
World of Tanks enCore is a demo application for its new graphics engine penned by the Wargaming development team. Over time the new core engine has been implemented into the full game upgrading the games visuals with key elements such as improved water, flora, shadows, lighting as well as other objects such as buildings. The World of Tanks enCore demo app not only offers up insight into the impending game engine changes, but allows users to check system performance to see if the new engine runs optimally on their system. There is technically a Ray Tracing version of the enCore benchmark now available, however because it can’t be deployed standalone without the installer, we decided against using it. If that gets fixed, then we can look into it.
WoT is an easy win for Intel.
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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.