NOVEMBER 2020 PCWorld 49at. Both are actually are decent 720p chips for
newer games, and 1080p for older games,
but you can only declare the winner to be
Tiger Lake. If you care about gaming in an
ultra-light laptop, go with Tiger Lake.
The second category is still relatively new,
but it’s pretty clear that applications that
support AI favor Tiger Lake. Apps are still rare,
but they’re also pretty cool. The image
recognition and AI upscaling can accomplish
it far faster than lessor chips. If you really
believe that AI is the future, then Tiger Lake is
the winner again.
The last category is conventional CPU
performance. For single-threaded and lightly
threaded tasks, Tiger Lake wins big. For
multi-threaded apps though, Ryzen is monster.
To help you understand each chip’s
strength, we took Cinebench R15 and asked it
run while manually selecting from 1 to 16
Topaz Video Enhance AI
Upscale 720p to 4K
Minutes
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 PL1SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE208116316672152108
109threads. The scores are below. You can see
where Ryzen has the advantage in red, and
where Tiger Lake has the advantage in blue.
One problem with the above chart is the
scale really makes it difficult to judge
performance, so we break it down by percent
difference below. You can see that the Tiger LakeCinebench R15 Threading
All threads
Ryzen 7 4800 (8/16) Core i7-1185G7 (4/8)LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE1T
2T^364441
3T^533590
4T^709751
5T 822869
6T 924 1,039
7T 1,0001,166
8T 1,052 1,285
9T 1,052 1,34 6
10T 1,052 1,381
11T 1,052 1,456
12T 1,052 1,491
13T 1,052 1,546
14T 1,052 1,6 0 0
15T 1,052 1,661
16T 1,052 1,711233184