Why i7 slower than i5

The newer design is 14 percent smaller and 14 percent lighter while retaining all the ports of the older generation. It continues to be one of the very few laptops still shipping with an integrated VGA port, for example. The main problem is that while its exterior brings noticeable changes, its 10th gen Intel CPU isn't performing any better than the older model.

Each of these processers comes in multiple variations. The K sports six cores and 12 threads, with a TDP of watts. It has a base clock of 3. With those specs, the K is a monster CPU for gaming and capable enough to handle applications like Photoshop and Premiere. Rocket Lake only has a single i7 chip: The i Like the range of i5s, this processor comes in several variations with different features.

It should be the most readily available chip, and it supports overclocking. The K comes with a little more juice than the K. It has eight cores and 16 threads, a base clock of 3. Out of all the current desktop offerings, we recommend the iK most. It represents an excellent value, with enough power for gaming and light productivity tasks. Intel currently offers its Tiger Lake processors for thin and light laptops. These chips pack in as much power as possible while keeping power and thermal demands low.

The lineup is fairly straightforward. There are two i5 processors, the iG7 and G7, each of which comes with four cores and eight threads. When configuring a ThinkPad X to order on Lenovo. That's an For this test, we had both laptops use the software to convert a 4K. The Core i5 laptop completed the task in 31 minutes and 27 seconds, while the Core i7 notebook took 30 minutes and 17 seconds. The Core i7 was faster here, but just by 1 minute and 10 seconds, an improvement of just 3.

Now it has stopped asking me for a password every time I change a system parameter. My Windows Experience is measuring 5. Even doing something simple like launching Control Panel brings it up.

The system is definitely usable, but I am simply not seeing any improvement over my past system despite the markedly better specs. I have even tried turning off 4 of the 8 cores to see if that made a difference via the msconfig boot options tab. That appeared to make zero difference at all, which tells me that the 8 cores are not really being used efficiently.

Am on to network issues now, trying to see if different MTUs improve things, wireless vs. I am convinced there must be some contention surrounding the 8 cores, some delay when the OS decides to which core it assigns a thread. Just a guess, but something along those lines. Any other suggestions appreciated. I take back what I said about never having seen an hourglass — I have seen one briely since I posted.

Eye candy will slow a Win 7 computer, but with those specs it is a drop in the bucket. Something is very wrong with that computer or setup, and it is sad to see someone having that much trouble and blaming it on Windows 7.

There are users who would love to have something even close to those specs but who are doing very well indeed with Win 7. I would probably think the disk and graphics adapter would be the most likely problem sources…. Indeed, I have a 1. Which reminds me, have you checked the WEI and run a reassessment to see if any of the components are coming up short as far as the W7 testing goes?

Ah, I hate this new laptop! It is a complete slug. I can type faster than it puts up the characters in most applications! The hourglass comes up all the time. I have since learned that a corei7 is actually comprised of 4 physical cores and 4 virtual. Is there any way to turn off the 4 virtual cores? Maybe it is some sort of weird contention problem between cores. OK, looks like I have it working much better now.

It was a long combination of things, but I am willing to bet disabling all the Bluetooth elements removed some interrupt contention. Changes made :. Moved UAC down a notch from the company-preset highest setting to second setting. Removed all USB devices prior to boot apparently there is a known loop with USB devices plugged in at boot which may cause perf issues. Disabled Bluetooth Software pre-load 5. Upgraded to latest Nvidia drivers, disabled 3D Vision.

Upgraded BIOS. Upgraded all drivers via Lenovo tool. Ran CCleaner. Turned off Aero, went to a basic Win7 theme. There was a slight increase in perceived performance, but not enough to justify the ugliness.

Went back to 8. System is much snappier now, about what I had with XP. With the additional cores and RAM, I expect it will be quite a bit more stable. To drop down to 4 cores from 8, you need to adjust the BIOS. The number of cores referred to in msconfig is a debug setting for boot up. Drop down into the BIOS at boot up disable HT: the machine should show 4 cores, but might trip an activation request as it may appear to be a significant hardware change.

No real issue — if it does trip the activation request, simply phone the number and re-activate. It may make a difference in some specialised circumstances, but in most cases will probably make little discernable difference — no harm in trying though! I finally figured it out, and it was entirely my fault. All of the changes above did improve things, but the laptop seemed no faster than my previous XP laptop, so I was resigned to that being the best it could do despite the drastically upgraded hardware and much newer OS.

I have a docking station for the old T61p laptop XP machine on a stand in my office. When I received the new laptop, I also replaced the docking station with a new one which fits a W Thinkpad, but I just used the same power adapter since the connector was identical. The cord was passed up behind my desk against the wall, so I just plugged in the old one since it was a pain to crawl under my desk to exchange them. After days of making changes, tweaks, etc. Please use the power adapter which shipped with your laptop.

Your laptop battery will charge at a slower rate and your computer will automatically lower the performance of your computer to adjust for the lower wattage. Learn something new every day. The new brick is rated W 20V, the old one only 90W 20V. I switched bricks, and presto, snappy performance after my next boot. Typical factory install OS always has too much crap running.

Get the free version of REVO uninstaller and go to work with it. Forget tuners and tweakers, there are many that will just make things worse. Even with the good ones you have to be a good judge of when and where to use them. Wanna be a power user? You need a powerhouse of a computer. Best choices are among the desktops, laptops are marginal by comparison. There is not that much crapware running on this laptop. Trouble is that a lot of legitimate apps install stuff that runs in the background.

Adobe Acrobat, Skype, Snagit, Roboform, iTunes, printer, touchpad, all of them run a background process at all times. There are plenty of others. But I never max out the CPUs — the cores are always loafing.