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MrlUnleashed
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So I've found the new Acer Aspire 5 with i5 8250U CPU and I'm pretty interested in it, but I'd like to know how well does it perform since it's only 1.6GHz base clock. It's paired with the MX150 graphics which I'm already familiar with. I'd just be happy to know how well does it do in light to modest gaming, nothing too extreme, or anything else I should know if any of you had any experience with it so far since it's quite new. 

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2 minutes ago, MrlUnleashed said:

So I've found the new Acer Aspire 5 with i5 8250U CPU and I'm pretty interested in it, but I'd like to know how well does it perform since it's only 1.6GHz base clock. It's paired with the MX150 graphics which I'm already familiar with. I'd just be happy to know how well does it do in light to modest gaming, nothing too extreme, or anything else I should know if any of you had any experience with it so far since it's quite new. 

the CPU is supposed to be a quad core and so it should perform ok. It  won't be 2x faster than the 7200U but it should be over 50% faster.

 

The real bottleneck for gaming would be the MX150.

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28 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

the CPU is supposed to be a quad core and so it should perform ok. It  won't be 2x faster than the 7200U but it should be over 50% faster.

 

The real bottleneck for gaming would be the MX150.

MX150 will be fine for what I'd use it, I've seen an article saying the 8250U turbo boosts just to certain points or something like that and it really confused me so im posting here to see if any one had hands on it and if so how it performs.

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34 minutes ago, MrlUnleashed said:

MX150 will be fine for what I'd use it, I've seen an article saying the 8250U turbo boosts just to certain points or something like that and it really confused me so im posting here to see if any one had hands on it and if so how it performs.

No clue. It doesn't officially launch for a bit.

 

According to what we know (without having a unit hands on), performance is better. Power consumption and heat are unknown but i suspect it'll generate more heat and more power than the previous generation of core i U series CPUs.

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1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

the CPU is supposed to be a quad core and so it should perform ok. It  won't be 2x faster than the 7200U but it should be over 50% faster.

 

The real bottleneck for gaming would be the MX150.

Really? the i5 8250u is an actual quad-core? I feel bad by owning a dual core "i7" 7500u now...

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Really? the i5 8250u is an actual quad-core? I feel bad by owning a dual core "i7" 7500u now...

 

4 cores and 8 threads at a slow clockspeed with 6MB of cache (i5) or 8MB (i7). My "i7" 6650U and I feel bad but at least I have eDRAM and Iris Graphics xD.

 

Intel said they did some power management stuff to manage power consumption on the cores but i'm not too sure.

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Just now, AluminiumTech said:

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Intel always knows how to frustrate its costumers, I wish Qualcoom had x64 xD

 

Oh well... I won't complain much though given the i7 7500u is enough to what I do on the laptop but oh well...

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Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Intel always knows how to frustrate its costumers, I wish Qualcoom had x64 xD

Don't worry. if Qualcomm made x64 CPUs then they'd stop working after every major Windows Updates.

 

They don't provide updated firmware or micro-code willingly for CPUs.

Just now, Princess Cadence said:

Oh well... I won't complain much though given the i7 7500u is enough to what I do on the laptop but oh well...

Same except my 6650U likes to get toasty and turbo a lot.

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1 hour ago, AluminiumTech said:

the CPU is supposed to be a quad core and so it should perform ok. It  won't be 2x faster than the 7200U but it should be over 50% faster.

Isn't this the processor that Intel was using to give themselves the 30% performance boost numbers for their marketing?

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Isn't this the processor that Intel was using to give themselves the 30% performance boost numbers for their marketing?

no idea what marketing materials or slides you looked at.

 

Intel has released a few products recently.

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5 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

no idea what marketing materials or slides you looked at.

 

Intel has released a few products recently.

The earlier rumors had it at 30% boost.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/05/intel-coffee-lake-performance/

Even the latest ones from August only have claims of 40% performance gain.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3217330/components-processors/intel-8th-gen-core-cpu-price-release-date-specs-features-faq.html

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4 minutes ago, ravenshrike said:

The earlier rumors had it at 30% boost.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/05/intel-coffee-lake-performance/

Even the latest ones from August only have claims of 40% performance gain.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3217330/components-processors/intel-8th-gen-core-cpu-price-release-date-specs-features-faq.html

Then that's what you should expect. I don't know what power management tricks intel is pulling.

 

It's got 2x more threads + cores but at 59% of the clockspeed.

 

So 200% (2x) - 41% (100% - 59%) = 159% and thus 59% improvement doesn't seem totally unreasonable.

Around that neighborhood seems ok.

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