[SOLVED] Intel Core i7-10750H vs Intel Core i7-9750H

[jorge_medion]

Hi,

I am not a tech-savy man but I will need a laptop with a good processor, however, my budget is limited to H series because HK and K series are trully expensive. Being not familiar with any of the CPU Intel Core i7-10750H and Intel Core i7-9750H I'd like to ask to someone familiar with such CPUs if you think is worth investing an extra amount of money for i7-10750H if there is a meaningful boost in performance compared to i7-9750H.

I only want the laptop to work with MS Office Word, Excel, Python 3.7, Rstudio (R) and occassionally playing strategy games which I think they are not really demanding such as "To End All Wars", "Empire Total War" and other AGEOD / Paradox games, but just as a casual player (no more than 4 hours a week).

Any insight, comment, criticism will be very welcome.

 

[geofelt]

Worth is something only YOU can determine.
Yes, the I7-10750H is faster, perhaps by 10%.
But, they are both so good that I doubt you would notice.
Look to other things such as the monitor quality, availability of a ssd for example.

OTOH, if both fit your budget, I suggest you buy the stronger.
The lower price of the weaker is sweet for a moment, but you will forever wonder if you should have bought the stronger.
I rarely regret buying the better product at the higher price.

 

[sizzling]

The other thing with laptops is you cannot compare just based on hardware. Both of these CPU’s run very hot and a 9750h with a good cooler could easily outperform a 10750h with poor cooling. The 9750h also has the advantage that older BIOS’s allow undervolting which helps with cooling, newer BIOS’s locked this out. As far as I know the 10750h does not support undervolting.