40 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020REVIEWS PREVIEW: INTEL 11TH-GEN CORE I7-1185G7 TIGER LAKE
UL’s 3DMark Sky Diver is a synthetic, but
very repeatable graphics test that’s made to
measure fairly moderate gaming loads. We’ll
first show you 3DMark’s Sky Diver graphics
result, which makes it a nearly pure graphics
test.
3DMark’s Time Spy test is a little more
strenuous. It’s a DX12 test that UL said actually
loads up a GPU five times more than
3DMark’s FireStrike. What’s amazing is the
results almost look the same as Sky Diver.
With 11th-gen Tiger Lake set to its higher
wattage, it’s almost 300 percent faster than
the ancient Intel HD graphics in the 10th-gen
Comet Lake U chip, and about 90 percent
faster than the 10th-gen Ice Lake U chip. More
importantly for Intel is its position ahead of
Ryzen 7 4800U. Even with its 8 CU’s of
Radeon graphics cores and LPDDR4X/4266
inside the AMD laptop, the Core i7-1185G7 isstill a healthy 35 percent faster than its
nemesis.
We could show you results from other
3DMark tests, but we’ve had enough of the
synthetics. And rather than use games you’d
normally run on laptops with integrated
graphics, such as Rocket League or other
eSports titles, we reached for games a little
harsher.
The first is Far Cry New Dawn, which we
ran at 1920x1080 resolution with the game
set to Normal. The performance is again
impressive for Intel’s Iris Xe: It comes in 360
percent faster than Intel HD, 100 percent
faster than Ice Lake’s Iris Plus, and 33 percent
faster than Ryzen 7 4800U’s Radeon.
The Far Cry series has typically been
slower on Ryzen desktop CPUs, so we also
looked at performance on a game friendlier to
AMD: Deus Ex Mankind Divided. This gameFar Cry New Dawn
19x10 Normal
Average fps
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 41W PL1+ DT
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 28W PL1+ DT
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 28W PL1
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 15W PL1
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1065G7/Iris Plus) 46WPL1
Dell XPS 13 7390 6/12 Ice Lake (Core i7-10710U/HD) 22W PL1
Lenovo Slim 7 8/16 Matisse (Ryzen 7 4800U/Radeon) 38W PL1
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE2116322432726Deus Ex Mankind Divided
19x10 Medium
Average fps
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 41W PL1+ DT
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 28W PL1+ DT
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 28W PL1
Intel Ref 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1185G7/Iris XE) 15W PL1
Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 7390 4/8 Tiger Lake (Core i7-1065G7/Iris Plus) 46WPL1
Dell XPS 13 7390 6/12 Ice Lake (Core i7-10710U/HD) 22W PL1
Lenovo Slim 7 8/16 Matisse (Ryzen 7 4800U/Radeon) 38W PL1
LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE28.313.529.120.828.2- 1
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