In our early tests with a Tiger Lake Core i7 factory sample, we found the overall productivity and media performance to be a solid incremental improvement. But it’s the integrated graphics upgrade that particularly caught our attention. In short, it’s big.
Core i5 and i7 Tiger Lake processors (the Core i5-1130G7 and the Core i71185G7, for example) will come with integrated Intel “Iris Xe” graphics, which Intel has touted as a significant improvement over the Intel UHD Graphics common in previous generations of laptop and desktop CPUs. It’s the first real implementation of the company’s next-generation graphics, known under the umbrella brand of “Intel Xe.” In our testing, we found these claims to be largely true: Iris Xe demonstrates not only a big improvement on Intel’s past offerings but also a jump over AMD’s integrated Radeon Graphics solutions, which have traditionally led the way.
For the most part, the Iris Xe results via the Core i7-1185G7 chip we tested don’t represent a sea change in what integrated graphics can do. But they do make integrated graphics a far more practical and realistic solution to gaming without a dedicated gaming PC. We saw some standout test results.
It’s worth noting that these test numbers represent the highest-tier Tiger Lake U-series processor available, so it’s a bit of a best-case scenario for Intel, though the same can be said for the AMD Ryzen 7 mobile chip it was up against in our testing. It remains to be seen how much the individual CPU factors into the Iris Xe performance, since the Core i7-1185G7 is the only chip we’ve tested so far. Also, Iris Xe performance will come only to Core i5 and i7 Tiger Lake processors, and Core i3 will continue with Intel UHD Graphics.
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