12 PCWorld OCTOBER 2020NEWS INTEL LAUNCHES TIGER LAKE CPU
For now, however, there’s still a mishmash
of somewhat vague performance comparisons.
Intel claims the integrated Xe core out performs
“90 percent of the discrete graphics in the
segment,” and that the chip can play games
twice as fast as the integrated Ice Lake GPU.
(The latter claim is based on a comparison
between the Core i7-1065G7U and the Core
i7-1185G7, using Gears Tactics at 1080p,
Medium settings. Intel had also made some
initial performance claims about Tiger Lake [go.
pcworld.com/tgcl] last year.)
Intel also says that Tiger Lake offers video
editing that’s twice as fast, and photo editing
that’s 2.7 times as fast, compared to rival
products. Last month, Intel released video
(go.pcworld.com/ivid) explaining how TigerThis is how Intel sees Tiger Lake shaping up with the AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000.Lake would perform in games ranging from
Battlefield V to Grid—but without frame rates
to back it up. Still, being able to play
Borderlands 3, Far Cry New Dawn, and
Hitman 2 on integrated graphics, and on a
thin-and-light PC, is noteworthy. After this
story was printed, however, Intel held further
sessions and offered a deluge of benchmarks
(go.pcworld.com/inbn) to back up its Tiger
Lake claims. Here’s one summary:
Until we have laptops in house to test, it’s
all academic. It’s probably fair to say that until
Intel announced its SuperFIN transistor, the
comparison between AMD’s mobile Ryzen
and Intel’s Tiger Lake looked pretty bad for
Intel. Now, the landscape could be much
more competitive.