Intel Core i7-1185G7

The Intel Core i7-1185G7 is a power-efficient quad-core SoC for laptops and Ultrabooks based on the Tiger Lake-U generation (UP3) that was introduced September 2020. It integrates four Willow Cove processor cores (8 threads thanks to Hyper-Threading). Each core can clock from 1.2 GHz (12 W base clock speed), 3 GHz (28 W base clock speed) to 4.8 GHz (single-core boost). All cores at once can clock at up to 4.3 GHz. At the time of announcement, the i7-1185G7 is the fastest model of the line-up. Since early 2021, the i7-1185G7 supports management features like vPro.

Another novelty is the integrated Iris Xe iGPU based on the completely new Gen 12 architecture. It should offer a significantly higher performance compared to the older Iris Plus G7 (Ice Lake). In the i7-1185G7 it uses 96 EUs and clocks between 400 - 1,350 MHz. The GPU and CPU can together use the 12 MB of L3 cache.

Furthermore, Tiger Lake SoCs add PCIe 4 support (four lanes), AI hardware acceleration, and the partial integration of Thunderbolt 4/USB 4 and Wi-Fi 6 in the chip.

Performance

The average 1185G7 in our database is just as fast as AMD's hexa-core Ryzen 5 4500U, as far as multi-thread benchmark scores are concerned. While the i7 is not the fastest Tiger Lake chip by any stretch of imagination, it's more than usable for your productivity and creative apps, with a bit of gaming possible as well.

Thanks to its decent cooling solution and a long-term CPU power limit of 55 W, the Stealth 15M A11SEK is among the fastest laptops powered by the 1185G7 that we know of. It can be almost twice as fast in CPU-bound workloads as the slowest system featuring the same chip in our database, as of August 2023.

Power consumption

This little Core i7 here has a default TDP of 12 W to 28 W, the expectation being that laptop manufacturers will go for a higher value in exchange for higher performance. Either way, that's a tad too high to allow for passively cooled designs.

The chip is manufactured on Intel's third-gen 10 nm process marketed as SuperFin for average, as of late 2022, energy efficiency.

Codename	Tiger Lake-UP3
Series	Intel Tiger Lake
Series: Tiger Lake Tiger Lake-UP3 Intel Core i7-1195G7 2.9 - 5 GHz 4 / 8  12 MB L3 Intel Core i7-1185G7 « 3 - 4.8 GHz 4 / 8  12 MB L3 Intel Core i7-1165G7 2.8 - 4.7 GHz 4 / 8  12 MB L3 Intel Core i5-1155G7 2.5 - 4.5 GHz 4 / 8  8 MB L3 Intel Core i5-1145G7 2.6 - 4.4 GHz 4 / 8  8 MB L3 Intel Core i5-1135G7 2.4 - 4.2 GHz 4 / 8  8 MB L3 Intel Core i3-1125G4 2 - 3.7 GHz 4 / 8  8 MB L3 Intel Core i3-1115G4 3 - 4.1 GHz 2 / 4  6 MB L3
Clock Rate	3000 - 4800 MHz
Level 1 Cache	320 KB
Level 2 Cache	5 MB
Level 3 Cache	12 MB
Number of Cores / Threads	4 / 8
Power Consumption (TDP = Thermal Design Power)	28 Watt
Manufacturing Technology	10 nm
Max. Temperature	100 °C
Socket	BGA1449
Features	DDR4-3200/LPDDR4x-4266 RAM, PCIe 4, 4 GT/s bus, DL Boost, GNA, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, AVX-512, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, VMX, SMX, SMEP, SMAP, EIST, TM1, TM2, HT, Turbo, SST, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, TME
GPU	Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 96EUs (400 - 1350 MHz)
64 Bit	64 Bit support
Architecture	x86
Announcement Date	09/02/2020
Product Link (external)	ark.intel.com

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