Question i5 8300H vs i7 8750H thermal throttling

[MeridianXV88]

Hi,

I would like some advice on choosing a laptop. I'm trying to choose between an i5 8300H and a i7 8750H, the laptop is exactly the same accept for the processors on the Lenovo Legion Y530. The price difference between the i5 and i7 version is about 10%, I read a comment about how it's not a good idea to have a 6-core CPU in a laptop because the added heat will thermal throttle more than the 4 cores on the i5. Would there be a major difference in these CPU's in terms of performance and thermal throttling. Should I go with the i5 because it will remain at higher clock speeds, I will be using the laptop for gaming and for coding and working on Photoshop, I do tend to have multiple apps open at once, many Chrome browser tabs open and YouTube playing in the background almost always.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[NightHawkRMX]

Thermal throttling depepnds on laptop. You would see better performance from the i7 even if it did throttle due to the extra cores. The 8300h is a pretty powerfull cpu and i have no throttling issues in my acer nitro 5, but i would go for thr i7 if you have it in your budget.