Four Core Core i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake Beats Eigth core Ryzen 7 4700U Renoir in Geekbench
You can say a lot of things about Geekbench, the first, for whatever reason everything leaks there. The second, the number never are rather trustworthy. Ergo, therefore, this news item should be taken with some disclaimers.
Both Intel and AMD have a few products in the works and one of each surfaced on geekbench, Intel's Core i7-1165G7 4-core / 8-thread (Willow Cove) processor based on the 10 nm "Tiger Lake-U" pulls ahead of the Ryzen 7 4700U (Renoir) processor, which has eight cores. The Geekbench comparison shows two Lenovo laptops, one with the i7-1165G7, the other a 4700U. The difference in favor for Intel is almost 37% in single-threaded performance while being 0.5% faster in multi-threaded performance (again, 4 versus 8 cores).
It paints a weird picture, also with the Ryzen 7 4800U the 8-core/16-thread chip ends up 22.3% faster than the Core i7-1165G7 in the multi-threaded (Hyperthreading).
Thanks SOTN for the news subkmit.
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A unreleased CPU using a new node beats an already released one by 30% on single-thread? That is good, but not super surprising.
We have come to expect rehashes of CPUs for what, almost 5 years now? I'd say that's the least they should be doing, and about time.
Meanwhile, AMD is also cooking Zen 3, which will probably be released before tiger lake and probably offer more cores, while supposedly having 15% better IPC than current Zen 2.
So yeah, time will tell if these numbers are even good.
15w-25w zen 3 isn't coming out for some time though, obviously the desktop ones will beat this at double the TDP.
I'm more curious to see how RDNA performs on an SoC honestly.
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I like how much cache has this willow cove. Finally a bump in l1 data cache since long time and also a hefty bump in l2 cache.
That could justify some of the perf increase.
Remember, the bigger the cache, the slower it reads and writes. A bigger L1 cache is only a good idea if your instructions don't fit. To my understanding) HT allows for 2 separate threads to run on the same core (and therefore share the same L1 cache), so it's tricky for Intel to find the sweet spot. Well, thanks to all the security vulnerabilities regarding HT, I assume they increased the L1 size to address some of the performance losses due to mitigations, so perhaps the L1 is meant to be more split between each thread.
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A unreleased CPU using a new node beats an already released one by 30% on single-thread? That is good, but not super surprising.
We have come to expect rehashes of CPUs for what, almost 5 years now? I'd say that's the least they should be doing, and about time.
Meanwhile, AMD is also cooking Zen 3, which will probably be released before tiger lake and probably offer more cores, while supposedly having 15% better IPC than current Zen 2.
So yeah, time will tell if these numbers are even good.