Hello all,
I just started work and received and HP EliteBook with an 8th generation i5, my previous old computer was a HP Pavilion with an 8th generation i7. The EliteBook is much faster, although it has definitely seen more usage, has not been constantly been placed on a cooling rack like mine, and I completely factory reset mine every year, why is that?
Also please note I have went to benchmarking websites and have seen that the processor on the i7 should be faster (i7-8565U vs i5 8265U).
Thanks!
Edit: They both have SSD’s and both have 16GB of ram, the Pavilion has an MX250 GPU while the EliteBook has a UHD 620 onboard graphics
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It depends on what you’re doing. There could be a number of different reasons, hardware and software related.
CPU’s being faster is only relevant to what you’re doing. Single Core speeds vs multicore speeds. Some things do work in parallel vs single core speeds, so it could be CPU variations in that if you’re doing the same processing, or it could be that you’re doing 2 different operations (single vs multi) with similar CPU’s.
Likewise GPU’s have varying things about them such as cache size and GDDR5 vs GDDR6, the benchmarks you’re getting aren’t necessarily speeds, but a score on how good they are, one GPU might be better at something and be faster but it can’t do everything like the other, which would result in a lower score for the faster GPU, because the other GPU has more capability.
Additionally there are speed differences in RAM and in SSD’s.
Lastly it can be software related. Traditionally consumer products have bloatware which can slow your computer down considerably, whereas business computer may not have all of that pre-installed. Generally, whenever I have a pre-configured laptop I will do a fresh clean install of Windows to remove any and all bloatware that is not possible to uninstall.
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