PC World - USA (2020-11)

NOVEMBER 2020 PCWorld 35

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t wouldn’t be a stretch to say that Intel’s

11th-gen Tiger Lake is perhaps the most

important laptop CPU launch for the

company. While previous generations

suffered no real competition from AMD, Tiger

Lake enters the ring facing a legitimate foe:

Ryzen 4000.

You can read up on AMD’s game-

changing Ryzen 9 4800HS (go.pcworld.

com/48hs), or its recently surfaced and

equally impressive Ryzen 7 4800U (go.

pcworld.com/48hs) for mainstream laptops.

And yes, that was a budget Acer beating a

Core i7 MacBook senseless (go.pcworld.

com/aci7).

Today, however, is about whether Intel’s

new 11th-gen 10nm Tiger Lake chip (go.

pcworld.com/tgrl) and its SuperFin transistors

and Iris Xe graphics (go.pcworld.com/iris)

have what it takes to keep AMD at bay. Intel

IMAGE: INTEL

Intel 11th-gen Core i7-1185G7

Tiger Lake Preview: It’s (mostly)

faster than Ryzen

Intel’s 11th-gen Core i7 easily outpaces AMD’s mighty Ryzen 7 in graphics, AI, and lightly-

threaded tasks. BY GORDON MAH UNG