Why would a weaker business laptop, outperform a consumer laptop with better hardware?

Question

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

In: Technology

Answer 1

Things like thermal design can limit the system performance. Overheating might lead to reduced performance. Your company IT might have optimized it a bit by disabling background processes or cut down bloatware.