So how does the 1185G7 differ to the parts below it?
Well, not in many ways to be honest.
There’s also a 50 MHz gain to max graphics frequency, which is hardly worth talking about.
Feature support otherwise is identical, as is the 12MB of L3 cache.
Benchmarks
We’ll start off benchmarking withCinebench R20where the 1185G7 delivers the same performance as the 1165G7.
Single thread performance is more interesting.
We’re only talking ~2 percent higher clock speeds, so the gains are in line with that.
For code compilation there’s a marginal difference between the i7-1185G7 and i7-1165G7 in both of our benchmarks.
Not groundbreaking stuff really.
Let’s breeze through some more tests.
In PCMark’s Essentials workload the 1185G7 ended up slightly slower than the 1165G7.
In 7-Zip, we’re back to narrow margins between the 1185G7 and 1165G7.
There’s not much separating the 1165G7 and 1185G7 in practice.
It’s the same story at 15W, but with even narrower margins.
On average these two parts deliver the same performance in this power class based on our testing.
The differences between these parts are minimal in terms of both specs and ultimately, performance.
This makes the i7-1185G7 kind of pointless.
The flip side to this example is also possible, and that’s the case with theMSI Stealth 15M.
Bottom line, our thoughts about the 1165G7 also apply to the 1185G7.
We’re certainly looking forward to see all that new technology in 2021.
