Intel, what HAPPENED? i5 vs i7 Laptop Performance

What is the best Intel laptop CPU you can buy for thin and light ultrabooks? Well Intel might want you to believe their Tiger Lake i7 is the answer but that might not be the best answer. While testing the Razer Book 13 we noticed that the i5 chip ended up being a LOT better than we expected. So when looking to buy the best laptop for the money, how does the i7 vs i5 CPU situation really stack up?

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Timestamps:
0:00 - i5 vs i7 Intro
1:48 - i5-1135G7 vs i7-1165G7 Specs
3:42 - I'm Sorry!
4:27 - Why this matters
4:56 - i5 vs i7 Temperatures, Power & Clock Speeds
6:40 - What's HAPPENING Here?
7:40 - Long term performance = i5 DOMINATION?
8:34 - Real World Performance (Multi Core)
9:36 - Real World Performance (Light Load)
10:09 - Gaming Performance
10:45 - Battery Life
10:57 - i5 vs i7, Creator vs Gaming

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[SteveAkaDarktimes]

ugh thats why Laptop buying is such a horrendous jungle. Specs are meaningless. you have to account and test the whole system, and comparing reviews are incredible rare.

[purplecrayon]

The computer you want will always cost $2000, whether it is 1981 or 2021.

[Aphova]

AMD has officially slapped Intel so hard they've swapped the labels on the i7 and i5.

[jithinjohn]

I love that Eber says 'spend responsibly' at the end of every video. Most underrated advice especially in these days..

[krusty_k]

So the i7 is basically a binned i5. Nice one Intel.

[br]

This was probably one of the most useful review videos I watched comparing the i5 to i7. I ended up going with the i5 and 16GB memory.

[helljester]

Sooo Intel is not just slower than AMD they’re slower than themselves???

[pondopondo]

As a PC guy with 3 razer laptops I have to say: new M1 macbooks are insane. The confidence in battery life is something else. For a gaming rig ryzen is phenomenal too. We need to let Intel dwell on their future and be better.

[toyanucci]

The audio in this video is IMPRESSIVELY good! I know, weird comment lol, but the vocals were so good it sounded/looked like a voice over.

Great content as well. I've seen a few vids from this channel over the last few weeks and finally subbed today.

Keep up the good work!

[Star-frjz]

This video genuinely surprised me. Outside of gaming, seeing the i5 beat the i7 is trippy. They ought to state power limits as a bare minimum. 20W on both might mean a similar performance but there is also so much going on under the hood (as you said, larger cache size = more power draw)

I checked the Intel site and compared them. The i5 and the i7 have similar TDP-up and TDP-down yet have different clock-speeds. It now sounds plausible that even with max wattage, the i5 would have beaten the i7 in productivity tests. This is trippy.

[raihansyah]

The naming is so bad that the description have a typo in it lol

[gregdingel]

The most soothing voice on YouTube - and great tech content, as well!

[arjdroid]

They probably knew that the i5 actually performed better, that's why they didn't even offer 16GB of memory for the i5 to try and stunt it's performance... The paltry 8GB of NON-UPGRADABLE memory that comes with the i5 model is very anti-consumer...

[Kareem-cxfi]

Great video! Its a shame buying a laptop can be such a messy affair these days... I ended up getting a Lenovo ideapad 5 14", i5, 16gigs, 512 storage from costco for $600. Very happy with my decision.

[mxhusky]

I found this channel a few weeks ago because I'm looking for a new laptop. It's my "go to" channel now. 👍👍

[davidgunther]

I bought a laptop with the i5 1135g7 and 16GB of memory last month. Good to know it performs as well as the i7.
The integrated Xe graphics is 3x the UHD 620 graphics performance in 8th gen intel chips.

[MrMuBot]

Yup. Absolutely similar trends and benchmarks were observed on my reviews too for the 2 different laptops running an Intel i5 and i7 11th gen respectively.

[dhilsiva]

Thank you so much Eber! I have been thinking about this a lot because I'm looking to buy an ultraportable laptop soon and I was thinking if an i7 was worth the higher price or if I should just go with an i5 if it had 16 GB RAM. This video was a pleasant surprise and helped me a lot in making a decision. Now I'll definitely go with an i5 with 16 GB RAM (if I don't get a Ryzen laptop).

[kamon]

Just found your channel yesterday and I'm loving your videos, they have excellent analysis and production.

But I have to complain about the plots in this video, the constant switching of the i5 and i7 positions on the bar plots. Having to check which one was were every time a new plot was shown made it unnecessarily difficult to follow along the presentation while not adding any meaningful info to the visualization since the compassion of 2 items in trivial.
This is not like the GamerNexus's temperature ranks with 20-ish items to keep sorted (and even then they highlight each item they mention to assist the viewer), but a small comparison of a handful of items. With so few qualitative values it would have been better to keep them in a consistent position / color. You could have used red bars for the i5 to maintain the colors of the time series plots.

That's it, a small that you might consider in the future. Thank you all for this awesome content!

[burakkucukak]

Hi, I ran into your video after trying to find a reasonably priced i7 in the market, and thanks to you I am now looking for an i5. Thank you so much for this information!