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Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake can run Doom at 1080p and Destiny 2 at 720p... sort of

Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake can run Doom at 1080p and Destiny 2 at 720p... sort of (Image source: metro.co.uk)
Core i7-1065G7 Ice Lake can run Doom at 1080p and Destiny 2 at 720p... sort of (Image source: metro.co.uk)
With some heavy tweaking and field-of-view reductions, Doom and Destiny 2: Shadowkeep can run at a locked 30 FPS in some scenarios. Still, we recommend at least a GeForce MX150 if you intend to play such intensive titles regularly.

Intel designed Ice Lake Iris Plus to be wholly capable of playing popular and undemanding PC titles like Fortnite, League of Legends, DOTA 2, Rocket League, or CS:GO much faster than what the last generation UHD Graphics 620 was ever capable of doing. Even so, that's not going to stop us from throwing more graphically advanced games at it just to see how far we can push the new 10th gen CPU series. With the Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 and Core i7-1065G7 on hand, we decided to see what it would take to run Doom (2016) and Destiny 2 at reasonable frame rates and resolutions.

Starting with Doom at the lowest 720p preset settings, the Dell XPS convertible manages an average 41 FPS compared to just 26 FPS on the Acer Nitro 5 with integrated RX Vega 10 graphics. A locked 30 FPS experience is therefore attainable which isn't so bad for a 13.4-inch convertible. Jumping to 1080p at the lowest preset settings will bring down the average to just 24 FPS, but enabling Vulkan instead of OpenGL appears to boost the average frame rate to 29.

Doom with heavy motion blur because of the unstable frame rates
Doom with heavy motion blur because of the unstable frame rates

For Destiny 2, we would again run at the lowest 720p preset settings as a jumping off point. Unfortunately, we don't recommend going any higher as frame rates will tank even at these base settings. The combination of tight corridors and wide open battle spaces results in highly variable frame rates ranging from 15 FPS to 70 FPS and an average of just 29 FPS. Frame rates become even worse when at The Tower gathering hub because of the high number of onscreen NPCs and players. Perhaps more notably, average frame rates are comparable to the AMD Ryzen 7 3700U with RX Vega 10 while being significantly slower than the discrete GeForce MX150 as shown by our graph below.

You can definitely game on an Ice Lake Core i7-1065G7 machine; it'll just depend on what game you have in mind. Very demanding titles like Doom or Destiny 2 will more than likely be "playable" in a loose sense of the word.

Frame rates hover around 20 FPS when at The Tower gathering hub or 20 to 40 FPS when playing Crucible where tight corridors are common
Frame rates hover around 20 FPS when at The Tower gathering hub or 20 to 40 FPS when playing Crucible where tight corridors are common
Destiny 2 - 1280x720 Low Preset
MSI GE72 965M Ti
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
102 fps
MSI PE60 2QD
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
62.5 fps
Acer Aspire 5 A515-52G-723L
Intel Core i7-8565U, NVIDIA GeForce MX250
62.5 fps
MSI B350I Pro AC - DDR4-2933, 512 MB GPU
AMD Ryzen 5 2400G, AMD Radeon RX Vega 11
56.7 (38.5P1) fps
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3 2018
Intel Core i5-8250U, NVIDIA GeForce MX150
51.6 (27.2P1) fps
Acer Swift 3 SF315-41-R4W1
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
41.2 fps
MSI CX72 6QD
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
32 fps
MSI GP62 2QD
Intel Core i7-5700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940M
31.9 fps
HP 14-dk0008ng
AMD Ryzen 7 3700U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
30.2 fps
Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 Core i7
Intel Core i7-1065G7, Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
29.4 fps
HP 17-bs103ng
Intel Core i5-8250U, AMD Radeon 530
22.6 fps
Acer Spin 5 SP513-52N-54SF
Intel Core i5-8250U, Intel UHD Graphics 620
18.5 fps
HP mt43
AMD PRO A8-9600B, AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)
15.3 fps
HP 14-bs007ng
Intel Core i5-7200U, Intel HD Graphics 620
12.6 fps
Doom - 1280x720 Low Preset
MSI GE72 965M Ti
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M
93 (42min - 70max) fps
Asus Zenbook UX510UW-CN044T
Intel Core i7-6500U, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
73.9 fps
Lenovo ThinkPad T480-20L6S01V00
Intel Core i7-8550U, NVIDIA GeForce MX150
65.9 fps
Apple MacBook Pro 15 2016 (2.9 GHz, 460)
Intel Core i7-6920HQ, AMD Radeon Pro 460
65 fps
MSI PE60 2QD
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M
62 (51min - 89max) fps
Dell XPS 13 7390 2-in-1 Core i7
Intel Core i7-1065G7, Intel Iris Plus Graphics G7 (Ice Lake 64 EU)
41.2 fps
MSI GP62 2QD
Intel Core i7-5700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940M
39.6 (33min - 53max) fps
MSI CX72 6QD
Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX
38.5 (31min - 53max) fps
Acer Nitro 5
AMD Ryzen 7 2700U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 10
26.5 fps
Lenovo ThinkPad E485-20KU000NGE
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)
25.1 fps
HP 17-bs103ng
Intel Core i5-8250U, AMD Radeon 530
19.5 fps
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Allen Ngo, 2019-10- 4 (Update: 2019-10- 4)