About Intels processors

[Freedo]

What is better for gaming, not to heavy gaming, just some GTA V for example. Is a 6th generation i5 better or is a 4th generation i7 better for some light gaming?

[79wjd]

Both will yield similar results (with the i7 taking a lead in a few games), I would personally go with a Haswell i7 since it has more potential now and in the future whereas the small IPC increase of Skylake will be largely irrelevant. 

[Stardar1]

1 minute ago, Freedo said:

What is better for gaming, not to heavy gaming, just some GTA V for example. Is a 6th generation i5 better or is a 4th generation i7 better for some light gaming?

Any I5 or I7 will do well, though, obviously, the more expensive processors will do better. 

 

Are you planning on overclocking?

[TheRandomness]

With a game that can take advantage of lots of threads, the i7

With a single threaded game, the i5-6xxx because of the higher per core performance.

[theaoneone]

There is plenty of choices, Try to google all the answer.

[Freedo]

2 minutes ago, Stardar1 said:

Are you planning on overclocking?

No, I'm going to buy a laptop, a msi probably.

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, Freedo said:

No, I'm going to buy a laptop, a msi probably.

If the i7 is a quad core (47xx) and the i5 is a dual core (6xxxU) then definitely the i7. But it will depend more on what the GPUs on each system are. 

[Stardar1]

Just now, Freedo said:

No, I'm going to buy a laptop, a msi probably.

Oh, in that case an I5 or I7 will do you just fine.

 

If you need the portability the laptop is fine, though if not a desktop is much more powerful and cost effective

[theaoneone]

Google it online. There is plenty of choice. You can't overclock a cpu on a laptop.

[79wjd]

5 minutes ago, theaoneone said:

Google it online. There is plenty of choice. You can't overclock a cpu on a laptop.

You shouldn't just tell people to google something (especially something that is somewhat complicated and isn't easily answered by a yes or no). The purpose of the forums is to help people understand, if you're just going to tell someone to google the answer to their question then they (and you) may as well not use the forums in the first place. 

 

 

[theaoneone]

He can just well look through the MSI products. They have all the models there.

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, theaoneone said:

He can just well look through the MSI products. They have all the models there.

That doesn't explain which is the better choice though. 

 

/Also, quote and/or @djdwosk97 so they person you're responding to gets a notification. 

[Jacksy]

For a Gaming-notebook i would prefer HQ processors with 4 cores.

[theaoneone]

There is not really a answer for him. There is so many new cpu intel and amd came up. Unless you want to use 1 hour to compare 10+ models of cpu to see what is the best. (newest doesn't mean it is the best)

2 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

That doesn't explain which is the better choice though. 

 

/Also, quote and/or @djdwosk97 so they person you're responding to gets a notification. 

 

[theaoneone]

2 minutes ago, Jacksy said:

For a Gaming-notebook i would prefer HQ processors with 4 cores.

Almost all laptop cpu have 4 core. i got a laptop from 2012 and it is i5-3210m and it is 2core/4ht

I mean newer gens.

[79wjd]

13 minutes ago, theaoneone said:

There is not really a answer for him. There is so many new cpu intel and amd came up. Unless you want to use 1 hour to compare 10+ models of cpu to see what is the best. (newest doesn't mean it is the best)

 

Except there is an answer. Assuming both systems are using a high end GPU (and it's the same GPU) then a quad core haswell i7 is a better choice than a dual core/quad core Skylake i5. If both are dual cores, then Skylake would have a very slight edge. 

 

There, i've taken every CPU into account. 

[theaoneone]

http://www.pcmag.com/reviews/laptop-computers

here is a link that can help you with picking the best Laptop match your budget and get the best performance budget.

[Asses_Of_Fire]

i would take a i7 4790k over a i5 6600k anyday, ANY DAY BRUH

 

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, Asses_Of_Fire said:

i would take a i7 4790k over a i5 6600k anyday, ANY DAY BRUH

 

Agreed, but he's talking about mobile CPUs Although I guess they do make laptops with 4790k's. 

[Jacksy]

1 minute ago, theaoneone said:

Almost all laptop cpu have 4 core. i got a laptop from 2012 and it is i5-3210m and it is 2core/4ht

I mean newer gens.

I mean real cores not logical cores.

[Freedo]

Okay, what about an i5 6300HQ or an i7 4720HQ?

[79wjd]

4 minutes ago, Freedo said:

Okay, what about an i5 6300HQ or an i7 4720HQ?

What GPUs do each laptop use? (and what are the two laptops)

[Freedo]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

What GPUs do each laptop use? 

The one with the i7:  Nvidia GeForce GT 940M

The one with the i5: Nvidia GTX 950M, 2 GB

 

(I may be wrong and these aren't the GPUs, but I don't know to much about pc.... stuff

[79wjd]

I would choose the i5 option then. Although I would personally look for different laptops and ideally aim for a 970m or better (or if you can't afford then, then a 960m).

[theaoneone]

This website listed all the mobile cpu and the desktop cpu.