Intel 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPU Obliterates Ice Lake Chip

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Don't poke the tiger.

Intel is getting ready to release Tiger Lake from its cage; however, the rowdy Core i7-1165G7 has already started flaunting its prowess in a SiSoftware benchmark.

Being a member of the 11th Generation Tiger Lake family means that the Core i7-1165G7 packs Intel's Willow Cove microarchitecture and Gen12 Xe graphics. The quad-core, eight-thread processor reportedly checks in with a 2.8 GHz base clock and 4.7 GHz boost clock. It's been known for a long time now that Tiger Lake will usher in 50% higher L3 cache per core in comparison to Ice Lake. The change is the SiSoftware benchmark spotted by @TUM_APISAK: The Core i7-1165G7 has 12MB of L3 cache compared to the 8MB of L3 cache on the existing Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake processor. 

On the graphics end, Gen12 is expected to arrive with 50% more execution units (EUs) in relation to Gen11. As a recap, Gen11 is limited to 64 EUs, meaning that Gen12 houses up to 96 EUs or 768 shading units. The exact configuration inside the Core i7-1165G7 is unknown.

Nonetheless, the Core i7-1165G7 did seemingly beat AMD's Ryzen 9 4900HS and Ryzen 7 4800U (codename Renoir) on 3DMark Time Spy not so long ago. That's only one benchmark though; it remains to be seen whether Gen12 can really dominate Vega in real-world gaming.
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