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Why is my 5 year old laptops i3 better than my dads surface pro 3 i7 in counter-strike? (ie. FPS

 

 

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Why is my 5 year old laptops i3 better than my dads surface pro 3 i7 in counter-strike? (ie. FPS

Better gpu/igpu?

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What laptop do you have? Specs?

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Better GPU?

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what i3 and i7?  It may actually not be better, but just runs better due to better GPU or something else perhaps?

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Better gpu/igpu?

 

Better GPU?

Its all onboard graphics

 

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What laptop do you have? Specs?

I have a dell inspiron 14

 

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Why is my 5 year old laptops i3 better than my dads surface pro 3 i7 in counter-strike? (ie. FPS

Resolution.  Surface Pro 3 is 1440p.  I doubt your 5 year old laptop is even 1080p.

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what i3 and i7?  It may actually not be better, but just runs better due to better GPU or something else perhaps?

im not sure. Could his be thermal throttling? We keep the settings down all the way and for i3 it averages 40fps and in i7 its like 15-25

 

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Resolution.  Surface Pro 3 is 1440p.  I doubt your 5 year old laptop is even 1080p.

That might explain it

 

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Its all onboard graphics

 

Still could be better on the laptop.

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im not sure. Could his be thermal throttling? We keep the settings down all the way and for i3 it averages 40fps and in i7 its like 15-25

could be thermal issues.  If we can assume you've done the logical thing and set everything else the same (resolution, graphics settings, etc.) then the only factors should be the actual hardware, and in that case, the better chip should win.  If it doesn't, it has to be thermals...

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Its all onboard graphics

So which was has the better igpu?

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So which was has the better igpu?

it's hard to imagine it could be the older one don't you think?  5 years?... I think so :)

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it's hard to imagine it could be the older one don't you think?  5 years?... I think so :)

Agh didnt catch the the 5 year old thing.. There are i3's with better graphics but  not from 5 years ago lol

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Still could be better on the laptop.

But modern i7 vs 5 year old i3

 

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So which was has the better igpu?

I would think it would be the i7 because its newer and its an i7

 

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The i7 variant of the Surface pro 3 does have thermal throttling issues. Even with the i5 version, running a full 100% load (i.e. stress testing), will tend to throttle. I can verified this with one of my Engineering colleagues who owns a Surface Pro 3 with the i5-4300U.

 

The i5 and i7 used in the Pro 3 are the i5-4300U and i7-4650U respectively.

 

The reason for the thermal throttling is poor design -- while trying to keep everything compact -- the CPU cooling was poorly implemented.

The Surface Pro 3 transfer the heat generated by the CPU to two very thin heatpipes (next to the CPU), and is cooled by a small fan. There is essentially no heatsink; just the heatpipes,

 

In the new Surface Pro 4, the thermal issues has been resolved.

The heatpipes now re-direct the heat generated much farther AWAY from the CPU (instead of just right next door).

One of the heatpipes is connect to a cooing fan located near the edge of the device. The other heatpipes goes to the battery, where a large copper plate is located; essentially, the entire back of the unit functions as a massive heatsink.

 

So...

  1. The i7 chip (or i5 chip under extreme load) is prone to thermal throttling
  2. Surface Pro 3 has a much higher resolution display
  3. The Processors used in the Surface Pro 3 are Intel's Ultra Low Power "U" processors

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