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What is the difference between Intel Core i7-8550U 1.8 GHz, up to 4 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology, 8 MB cache, 4 cores, 8GB Ram and Intel Core i7-7500U 2,7 GHz, up to 3.5 GHz Intel Turbo Boost, 4 MB cache, 2 cores, 16GB Ram? And so which one would you get?
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it all depends on what you are using the PC for?
and what your budget is?
and whether you put more credence in dual core or quad core? or 7TH gen processor or 8th gen processor?


or like me, it's all about the GHz speed.
I don't play games, so my i3 dual core 3.9GHz process, with a SSD is a nice little speed rocket for my purposes.Here  is a comparison page.

However even though one is better than the other, in many ways they are close ENOUGH that various other differences with a system could easily make up for it. Not to mention price differences. Quote from: BC_Programmer on October 27, 2017, 07:10:19 PM

Here  is a comparison page.

However even though one is better than the other, in many ways they are close enough that various other differences with a system could easily make up for it. Not to mention price differences.

Actually the price difference is around 100 pounds. Also, because they are both HP Pavilion of the same 15-cc... group, the rest of the specs are the same. I'm confused about the processor because I don't really understand stuff like cores and GHZ speeds. Looking at that website it looks like the 8GB ram spec pc is actually better. Does it mean that even if the other one is 16GB, the 8 GB is better? (I thought higher GB means faster). Thanks again!With RAM GB is Storage Capacity for Binary Bits .... Speed is in Latency and Front Side BUS speed such as DDR3-1333 is DDR3 with a FSB of 1333Mhz. If you had a DDR3-1600 which is a DDR3 stick that is rated for 1600Mhz and the memory controller supports 1600Mhz FSB then its able to read/write to the DDR3-1600Mhz RAM faster than the DDR3-1333Mhz RAM.

For a CPU speed is in many attributes ( Clock such as Ghz, Cores such as 4 cores can handle up to 4x the load of a single core CPU, Core design as in newer CPU core usually is also more efficient at coming to a calculation result by use of newer instruction sets that older processors have to do more of the leg work to get to the answer whereas the newer CPU uses cheat sheet table algorithms etc to skip across to calculations faster as an example, Cache allows storage of information on the CPU itself which is faster to read/write than it is to the RAM itself and so L1, L2, L3 and other Cache features come into play to make it faster was well for certain applications were redundant calls can be made to Cache vs RAM and so its faster than a CPU that cant cache this on the CPU which relies more on the system RAM which is slower to read/write information. ) *Thermal Design Power also comes into it too when it comes to speed. If a CPU is intended to GIVE off as little heat as possible then its likely to be slower, such as a 19 watt CPU vs a 95 watt CPU that are around the same age. The 95 watt would likely be able to play games that the 19 watt TDP CPU struggles to play or doesnt play at all. *** But Bench Marks are the better indicator for processing power.

Running RAM with a slower FSB than the CPU is intended to operate on if memory controller supports the slower speed also affects CPU performance as the RAM can act as a performance bottleneck by the memory running at a slower FSB. For example I had a CPU that was rated for 800Mhz FSB RAM, and had a 533Mhz FSB RAM stick available. The CPU was able to run on the slower RAM stick but benchmark performance took a slight hit in the RAM slowing the CPU down by bits communicating at a slower rate to the CPU from RAM.

Lastly you could have a 19 watt TDP 1.5Ghz Dual Core CPU and a 95 watt TDP 3.3Ghz 8-core CPU running side by side and not see any difference in the operation of the software in some cases. They both act like they are running the same speed such as for web surfing for example. Both computers can surf the internet and feel the same, yet there is a drastic difference in the potential processing power. The 19 watt CPU however might be at 40% utilization wereas the 95 watt CPU is at 12% CPU utilization, so the 19 watt CPU has to work a little harder to do the same thing that the 95 watt is able to plow thru. Even some games can feel exactly the same depending on resource requirement. If the game doesnt need much to run it can feel the same on both such as some flash games online etc.


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