Hands-on with Intel’s i7-1185G7 Tiger Lake prototype laptop

Tiger Lake is a much better challenger for AMD—but it's still fighting uphill.

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Just wanted to say thank you AMD for kicking these serial milkers (intel) butts so hard it's taking them years to catch up. And we're finally out of the dual core laptop era and quad core desktop era which felt like an eternity.

No disrespect to AMD, but I feel most of what's helping them at the moment is TSMC delivering on process nodes and Intel failing horrible, rather than the success of AMD's contribution. At least >50% is due to process nodes and not AMD itself.

Dunno. Zen and Zen+ definitely didn't have a process node advantage over Intel. And Intel starting it's... course correction happened pretty much the day the first Zen CPUs launched.

Saying it's all TSMC is the same as saying Zen was no good before Zen2. It's not like the 2700x is worthless compared to the 3700x.

 

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The short version: Xe delivers on its promises and then some. Whether the i7-1185G7 CPU as a whole is running at 28W TDP or 15W TDP, it beats all the other integrated graphics systems on both Time Spy and Night Raid by a healthy margin.

I'm sure your benchmark results are correct but it's worth noting that Anandtech came to a different conclusion when measuring the performance of actual games on the chips in question.

To paraphrase their results/conclusion: when playing actual games, AMD's chip is often faster by a small margin at lower resolutions, and often slower by a small margin at higher resolutions.

So it's absolutely not the slam-dunk that you would expect from Intel's slide deck or these two 3DMark results.

As I understand, at lower resolutions game performance is more likely to be CPU limited. GPU is more critical at higher resolutions. If that is the case, then this would also confirm the assertion that Intel GPU is indeed faster.

...but if the AMD chip is faster at lower resolution, it'd then mean the AMD CPU is better for gaming than the intel one. Which would be much bigger news than "Intel's integrated graphics now slightly faster than AMD's".