PC World - USA (2020-11)

50 PCWorld NOVEMBER 2020

REVIEWS PREVIEW: INTEL 11TH-GEN CORE I7-1185G7 TIGER LAKE

Yes, Tiger Lake can run Crysis.

is a monster itself compared to the Ryzen with

the high clocks. It holds onto its advantage from

1 to 4 threads, but it starts to take on water as you

increase threads in a task. Basically, if you live on

the left side of this chart (which is primarily Office,

browsing, and most photo editing), the better

choice is Tiger Lake. If, however, you live on the

right side of this chart with 3D modeling,

CPU-based encoding, and other thread heavy

tasks, the clear choice is Ryzen.

The good news for Intel that it finally has a

CPU that can stare down Ryzen. There are soft

spots where Ryzen is clearly superior, but

Tiger Lake has a legitimate claim to the throne

with its superior performance in gaming and

AI. It’s stupidly fast at lightly-threaded

performance. This fight isn’t over. AMD has

more to come. But at least Tiger Lake is

indeed a CPU worthy of being in the ring.

Bonus meme: We’ll close this review out

with an Internet meme of “can it run Crysis?” If

you read our 10th Gen Ice Lake preview, you

already know the answer, but 11th Gen Tiger

Lake runs it faster. We ran Crysis at an old

school resolution of 1024x768 on its Very High

Setting and DirectX 10 option. We should note

that the 13-year-old benchmark would only run

in 64-bit on the Ryzen, and only in 32-bit on

the Intel laptops. So, rather than an official

result, consider this more of a meme result.

Crysis Very High

10x7 DX10

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 PERFORMANCE

75.3

40.96

75.9

60.27

76.1

27.6

52.7

Cinebench R15 Threading

Percent Change

Core i7-1185G7 (28W + DT)

versus Ryzen 7 4800U (38.5W)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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-39

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