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日本[Comparison] AMD Ryzen 7 6800U vs Intel Core i7-1165G7 – This feels illegal
Last year, Intel’s Tiger Lake U CPUs were decently powerful, but their low core count compared to the competition was a limiting factor. Now, the shoe’s entirely on the other foot, as Alder Lake offers high-core count and efficient chips.
However, enough talk about Intel. Today we have AMD’s champion in the ULV category. The Ryzen 7 6800U has a TDP between 15W and 28W. We’re here to compare it against Intel’s most-powerful last-gen ULV offering, the Core i7-1165G7, in both CPU and GPU-intensive scenarios, to see how the chips stack up against each other.
You can find more information about both CPUs here: AMD Ryzen 7 6800U / Intel Core i7-1165G7
Specs table
| AMD Ryzen 7 6800U | Intel Core i7-1165G7 | |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | Zen 3+ | Tiger Lake U |
| Cores / Threads | 8/16 | 4/8 |
| Clock Speeds – Base/Boost | 2.70 – 4.70GHz | 2.80 – 4.40GHz |
| Cache | 20MB | 12MB |
| Lithography | 6nm | 10nm |
| TDP | 15-28W | 12/15/28W |
| Memory type | DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-6400 | DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4267 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX 680M | Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) |
CPU benchmarks
The Ryzen 7 6800U is a clear winner in 3D Rendering, scoring 95% higher in Cinebench 20. It also wins out in the newer Cinebench R23 benchmark, this time with a lead of 93%. In Photoshop, where Intel has notoriously been very good, AMD wins out as well, with a lead of more than a second.
Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
| Cinebench R23 | |
|---|---|
| Ryzen 7 6800U – Lenovo Yoga 7 (14″, 2022) | 11746(+93%) |
| Core i7-1165G7 – Lenovo ThinkPad T15 Gen 2 | 6101 |
GPU benchmarks
When it comes to GPU performance, the new RDNA 2 iGPU shows better performance when against the Iris Xe Graphics G7. Intel’s iGPUs have been very good at delegating as much of the GPU workload to the CPU, so when the CPU is weaker, as is the situation here, the GPU performance struggles as well. This is part of their problems with the discrete Arc graphics, as now they have to try and do the reverse, and put more load on the GPU instead of the CPU. The Radeon 680M is 123% and 112% faster in 3DMark Fire Strike and Unigine Superposition, respectively.
The results are from 3DMark Time Spy (Graphics). Higher is better.
Results are from 3DMark Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (higher the score, the better)
The results are from 3DMark Wild Life Extreme Unlimited. Higher is better.
Results are from the Unigine Superposition benchmark (higher the score, the better)
Gaming tests
| CS:GO | HD 1080p, Low (Check settings) | HD 1080p, Medium (Check settings) | HD 1080p, MAX (Check settings) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 7 6800U – Radeon 680M | 166 fps (+127%) | 133 fps (+122%) | 106 fps (+293%) |
| Core i7-1260P – Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) | 73fps | 60 fps | 27 fps |
| DOTA 2 | HD 1080p, Low (Check settings) | HD 1080p, Normal (Check settings) | HD 1080p, High (Check settings) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryzen 7 6800U – Radeon 680M | 146 fps(+54%) | 115 fps (+102%) | 81 fps (+145%) |
| Core i7-1260P – Iris Xe Graphics G7 (96EU) | 95 fps | 57 fps | 33 fps |
Conclusion
The Ryzen 7 6800U comes ahead in all benchmarks that we tested. The Core i7-1165G7, for all the good it’s done, is an outdated CPU, as the 4-core 8-thread setup feels outdated. It felt outdated even last year. You can see how much of a jump in performance Team Blue’s 12th Gen processors have made simply by increasing the core count.
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