Previous outings against AMD’s Ryzen 4000-series CPUs haven’t gone so well, but a new PassMark score from regular benchmark leaker @Tum_APISAK shows at least one bright spot for Tiger Lake against its formidable Ryzen 7 opponent (Notebookcheck).
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Now, to be clear, this is a pretty specific win that Tiger Lake has chalked up with its Core i7-1165G7 CPU going up against the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U. It’s the same pairing that we have seen tip consistently in AMD’s favor in previous leaks over the last few months. But this time around, in the single-threaded PassMark results, the Tiger Lake CPU managed to come out ahead with a score of 3,273 to the Ryzen processors 2,631, which is roughly a 24.4% advantage in Intel’s favor. Before any Intel fans pop the champagne and take a victory lap, the multi-threaded and overall scores were less rosy for Intel. Here the Ryzen 7 4800U dominated with its eight cores and 16 threads to the four cores and eight threads of the Intel Core i7-1165G7. The overall scores for the two were a total of 17,552 points for the Ryzen 7 4800U and 13,372 points for the Core i7-1165G7, amounting to a 31.3% victory for AMD. One additional caveat to this result is that the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U has 55 total tests in the PassMark system and its score is an average among all of those tests. Meanwhile, this was the first test for the Core i7-1165G7 CPU, so there is a considerable margin for error compared to the AMD score, which could go for or against Intel. Unfortunately for Intel, single-threaded performance is not going to be a massive selling point for most users, but at this point, any win is likely a good win. Tiger Lake does have other advantages, including improved security and the aforementioned graphics power for gamers who want to stick to a thin and light option, so regardless of AMD’s benchmark edge we still can’t wait to hear more about Tiger Lake next month.
