This Core i7 with Iris Xe Graphics has 4-cores/8-threads and a max frequency of 4.80 GHz. Intel’s 11th-gen mobile processors are a system-on-a-chip (SoC), which integrates the CPU, GPU, and RAM soldered onto a single circuit. It’s not a finalised laptop design from any manufacturer and the results here might change based on any final designs from the manufacturer or Intel itself. I didn’t have the time to really put it through its paces or see how it’s battery life will compare to predecessors and competitors, but I did get a decent idea of Tiger Lake’s potential and it’s seriously impressive.įor testing, Intel instead sent me a reference laptop with a Core i7-1185G7. This isn’t a total review of Intel’s latest mobile CPU.

Tiger Lake isn’t in available laptops at the moment but when Intel offered me the chance to check it out and test the biggest Tiger Lake claims I naturally said yes. I’ve only spent a little time with Intel’s latest mobile processor and while it hasn’t always matched the promise, and 60 fps at 1080p continues to elude it, what Tiger Lake can do overall is still so seriously impressive that it’s likely one of the best integrated graphics processors out there. For graphically demanding games, 60 fps at 1080p is a great achievement for an integrated GPU.

My immediate thought when Intel announced its long-awaited Tiger Lake 11th-gen mobile processors earlier this month was, “Of all the times for Apple to move to its own CPU.” The claimed performance in video editing and work productivity tasks definitely grabbed my attention, but it was the promise of 1080p gaming at 60 frames per second that piqued it. Intel’s Tiger Lake could be the leap intergrated graphics and processing power Intel’s needed for the last half-decade.

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