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>Intel Core i7-10710U Comet Lake processor (RRP $443), which was, apparently, the most powerful laptop-oriented Intels at the time. No, that would be the i7-10
by ineedasername 5y ago
>Intel Core i7-10710U Comet Lake processor (RRP $443), which was, apparently, the most powerful laptop-oriented Intels at the time.
No, that would be the i7-10870H, which has a higher base & max frequency, and on high performance settings will support sustained workloads much better before throttling down. Intel's "U" chips are one of the the low power flavors. Not horrible for very short burst but pretty bad for sustained loads.
I'm using the equivalent H from Gen 9. Work initially "upgraded" me from a 8+ year old xeon to a Gen 9 i7 "U" processor, and it was like stepping into molasses so I insisted on the H. Battery life is significantly worse but I can actually get work done on it, and switch to low power mode if I need to stretch things. (Even then it doesn't last as long as a U, but it's a good compromise for me)
- smoldesu 5y agoThose U-series chips are a bit of a nerd novelty in my book. I've had some kicks and giggles getting my 6600u to run at absurdly low clock speeds (~400mhz) to see how far I could stretch the battery and how usable it was. Pretty much anything under 800mhz is unusable for desktop purposes, but it was a lot of fun playing around with that level of power tuning. Those clocks are much lower than the reported TDP-down stats, so I'm assuming it's only possible to reach those speeds courtesy of the funky sleep states Intel used to put in their Ultrabook CPUs. I don't think you can do similar tricks on new machines. Definitely not the sort of chip you'd want to do anything besides text editing and video streaming on though.
- happycube 5y agoAnd gen8+ U's are much better than previous dual-core chips, which were basically all i3's.