Intel Core i7-1065G7 Benchmarked: Ice Lake with Iris Plus Graphics

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Intel Core i7-1065G7 Benchmarked: Ice Lake with Iris Plus Graphics

Is 10nm Better Than 14nm?

This has been a long time coming, as we're finally getting around to testing Intel's Ice Lake architecture. This is Intel's first real attempt at a 10nm CPU, and in this review we'll be comparing it against their 14nm offerings to see how it stacks up in terms of performance.

Last year we did see the 10nm 'Cannon Lake' but it was a single processor, the Core i3-8121U, a measly dual-core clocked at up to 3.2 GHz with no integrated graphics. It was used in a single Lenovo laptop plus a small handful of NUCs. Because of its low-end specs, it never saw much traction.

Thus in our book Ice Lake is Intel's first true entry to the CPU market with the 10nm process. There are many more SKUs available and we're already seeing decent uptake in the market across ultraportable laptops. Instead of one CPU, there are 11 in Intel's Ice Lake line-up, across 9W, 15W and 28W power categories. These are all designed for low-power ultraportables and other mobile devices, at least for now.

Intel's naming scheme is confusing as usual. Before Intel used U suffixes to denote 15W products, and Y to denote 9W. Now this is relegated to a single number: the 1065G7 for example is a 15W CPU, while the 1060G7 is 9W. All 15W products get a 5 in the fourth digit, and 9W parts get a 0. I personally preferred the use of U or Y, that was clearer for buyers rather than hiding this crucial performance indicator among a bunch of other letters and numbers.

What has become clearer this generation though, is the integrated graphics capabilities. The G suffix tells us exactly what sort of CPU configuration we're getting: G7 denotes Iris Plus with

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