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

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.

Allen Ngo, Published 10/04/2019

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

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

Destiny 2 | Doom

Destiny 2 - 1280x720 Low Preset
MSI GE72 965M Ti Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	102 fps ∼100%
MSI PE60 2QD Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	62.5 fps ∼61%
Acer Aspire 5 A515-52G-723L Intel Core i7-8565U, NVIDIA GeForce MX250	62.5 fps ∼61%
MSI B350I Pro AC - DDR4-2933, 512 MB GPU AMD Ryzen 5 2400G, AMD Radeon RX Vega 11	56.7 (38.5^P1) fps ∼56%
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3 2018 Intel Core i5-8250U, NVIDIA GeForce MX150	51.6 (27.2^P1) fps ∼51%
Acer Swift 3 SF315-41-R4W1 AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)	41.2 fps ∼40%
MSI CX72 6QD Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	32 fps ∼31%
MSI GP62 2QD Intel Core i7-5700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940M	31.9 fps ∼31%
HP 14-dk0008ng AMD Ryzen 7 3700U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 10	30.2 fps ∼30%
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 ∼29%
HP 17-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U, AMD Radeon 530	22.6 fps ∼22%
Acer Spin 5 SP513-52N-54SF Intel Core i5-8250U, Intel UHD Graphics 620	18.5 fps ∼18%
HP mt43 AMD PRO A8-9600B, AMD Radeon R5 (Bristol Ridge)	15.3 fps ∼15%
HP 14-bs007ng Intel Core i5-7200U, Intel HD Graphics 620	12.6 fps ∼12%

Doom - 1280x720 Low Preset
MSI GE72 965M Ti Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M	93 (42^min - 70^max) fps ∼100%
Asus Zenbook UX510UW-CN044T Intel Core i7-6500U, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	73.9 fps ∼79%
Lenovo ThinkPad T480-20L6S01V00 Intel Core i7-8550U, NVIDIA GeForce MX150	65.9 fps ∼71%
Apple MacBook Pro 15 2016 (2.9 GHz, 460) Intel Core i7-6920HQ, AMD Radeon Pro 460	65 fps ∼70%
MSI PE60 2QD Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M	62 (51^min - 89^max) fps ∼67%
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 ∼44%
MSI GP62 2QD Intel Core i7-5700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940M	39.6 (33^min - 53^max) fps ∼43%
MSI CX72 6QD Intel Core i7-6700HQ, NVIDIA GeForce 940MX	38.5 (31^min - 53^max) fps ∼41%
Acer Nitro 5 AMD Ryzen 7 2700U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 10	26.5 fps ∼28%
Lenovo ThinkPad E485-20KU000NGE AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)	25.1 fps ∼27%
HP 17-bs103ng Intel Core i5-8250U, AMD Radeon 530	19.5 fps ∼21%

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