Gaming on 25 W Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake-U can be up to 42 percent faster than 15 W version according to Intel

[Redaktion]

If you're a light or casual gamer, Intel wants you to consider its 25 W Ice Lake-U Core i7-1065G7 with Iris Pro Graphics instead of dedicated GeForce MX graphics or AMD's integrated Vega series. We'll have to see ourselves in a few weeks through real-world retail units if Intel's claims are reproducible.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gaming-on-25-W-Core-i7-1065G7-Ice-Lake-U-can-be-up-to-42-percent-faster-than-15-W-version-according-to-Intel.434412.0.html

[S.Yu]

This suggests that (obviously, though) the games were GPU-bottlenecked and most of the additional power has been allocated to the iGPU.

[Jesse]

.. and yet, all we really want is the 8w version so that we can all have fanless, silent ultrabooks.   I really hope AMD can kick Intel's butt with a better ULV cpu in the not too distant future.

[A]

So let me get this straight, they use the same SKU for the 15W and 25W version?

You know, there is a special place in hell for whoever at intel came up with that decision.

It's already a pain when many sites list laptops as "7th gen i7" without telling you which one specifically... and now this...

[Gen11 fan]

@S.Yu:

My interpretation is that it suggests up to 15w the chip is quite efficient but once you go past that, you've to give allot more wattage for not much more performance.

@Jesse:

AMD does not care about laptop market anymore. I think they stop caring like 6 years ago? They're too busy working on next gen console soc's, providing gpu's to apple and their server/desktop business.

They've never really cared about their consumer APU's tbh. Always paired with low bandwidth memory. Then suddenly when PS4 was released, it was paired GDDR5, 8 GB of it. Take a hint, they're not interested in your money.

@A:

They're the exact same chip (just configured at different tdp's), so why would they need to be put in a different SKU? In any case, even if they were put in separate SKU's, it would not matter much. At the end of the day, real life performance and thermals matter more. You could have a laptop with a 25w version according to spec, but in practice (due to poor thermal design) throttle down to 15w or less. You could have another laptop specced at 15w, but allows you to unlock the tdp to 25w and does not throttle at all when you do so due to have excess thermal headroom.

Moral of the story, don't trust version or spec, wait for the real reviews. Trust the best implementation.

[S.Yu]

@S.Yu:

My interpretation is that it suggests up to 15w the chip is quite efficient but once you go past that, you've to give allot more wattage for not much more performance.

On paper It's 66% higher TDP for ~40% more performance, while it's slightly less efficient it's certainly not bad at all, in fact IIRC this is a much more efficient gain than...Nvidia's low end...MX150? That had 2 versions with different wattage? I still say most of that 10W goes to the GPU.

[name]

There is only one SKU for Intel Core i7-1065g7 exists - (URL dissalowed) see ark.intel.com -> Processors -> Intel Core Processors -> 10th Generation  Intel Core i7 Processors -> Intel® Core™ i7-1065G7 Processor -> Ordering and Compliance