Final conclusions are ok, but your understanding is 100% off. i5-7300HQ has 4 cores, not 2. The difference is because i5 offers 4 threads and i7 offers 8 – and current games don’t use more than 4 threads efficiently.
“When they do use more than one processor core, they do not use more processing threads” – this is utter nonsense. A program can’t utilize more cores without more processes/threads. Games do use threads.
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ki
6 years ago
The problem is that gaming laptops usually come paired with i7. You can’t really get a 1070 with i5. I haven’t seen models like that, maby there are a few fringe ones.
Another thing it would have been nice if you compared thermals/sound if the cooling solutions are identical on both. usually an i7 goes far beyond the cooling capability of a laptop, in turn, dragging down the gtx’s performance with it.
i7 is great for dual use business and gaming
It is great mostly for business use. 😉
Final conclusions are ok, but your understanding is 100% off. i5-7300HQ has 4 cores, not 2. The difference is because i5 offers 4 threads and i7 offers 8 – and current games don’t use more than 4 threads efficiently.
“When they do use more than one processor core, they do not use more processing threads” – this is utter nonsense. A program can’t utilize more cores without more processes/threads. Games do use threads.
There was a mistake in the article and we corrected it, based on your feedback. Thank you!
The problem is that gaming laptops usually come paired with i7. You can’t really get a 1070 with i5. I haven’t seen models like that, maby there are a few fringe ones.
Another thing it would have been nice if you compared thermals/sound if the cooling solutions are identical on both. usually an i7 goes far beyond the cooling capability of a laptop, in turn, dragging down the gtx’s performance with it.
Great article. You made my decision for me