Question Need to choose between 2 gaming laptops; i5 and i7. please advise.

[Souvik Chatterjee]

The laptops are as follows:
MSI GF65 I5-10500H 6 cores 12 threads upto 4.5 ghz, GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6 VRAM, 16gb Memory and windows 10 on 512gb SSD
MSI GF65 I7-10750H 6 cores 12 threads upto 5.0 ghz GTX1660Ti 6GB GDDR6 VRAM 16GB Memory and windows 10 on 512 gb ssd
Some may say the right choice is pretty obvious but however I am skeptical about the bottlenecking factor in the i7 variant and therefore decided also that I may better consult the experts here.
Kindly advise on the better choice here so that I can purchase the right one.
Thanks in Advance.

 

[Eximo]

Hard to say without the price difference.

The CPUs are basically identical in all but clock speed.

To which bottlenecking factor are you referring? CPU too fast for the GPU? No such thing.

CPU bound software and games will run the game engine at the speed the CPU allows. If the i7 can maintain a boost clock over that of the i5 it will be faster. But given the same cooling, it is likely you won't see a huge difference between the two one the heatsink is saturated.

GPU bound titles will run roughly the same, but that is just a matter of settings. If you want more performance, lower the settings. The faster your CPU, the more FPS you can achieve.

 

[Souvik Chatterjee]

The i5 variant is priced at 75k rupees and the i7 variant is at 82k.
Also the i5 variant has 254 ratings with an average rating of 4.5/5 whereas the i7 variant has only has 25 ratings with an average of 3.7/5.
Both are exactly the same specs except for the CPU. That's all I know.
And thanks for the prompt response.

 

[Souvik Chatterjee]

I forgot to mention that I was referring to the CPU being too fast in terms of bottlenecking by the GPU. I am only doubtful about that.
Regards

 

[Eximo]

I'd probably get the i5 myself. For the most part I doubt you would notice the difference between 4.5Ghz and 5.0Ghz on single threaded tasks. And the chances of the system maintaining boost clocks anyway is slim.

 

[Souvik Chatterjee]

Thanks, your reply is noted.

 

[nohackmove]

Anyways, for gaming, it is always better to choose i7 CPU. You would be disappointed when it cause bottleneck to have i5 CPU in any game time.

Most of the CPUs between i5 and i7 it is not just the clock speed, also the virtual processor amounts are different and you can feelthe difference in higher details of better graphic and physics games.

 

[Eximo]

Anyways, for gaming, it is always better to choose i7 CPU. You would be disappointed when it cause bottleneck to have i5 CPU in any game time.

Most of the CPUs between i5 and i7 it is not just the clock speed, also the virtual processor amounts are different and you can feelthe difference in higher details of better graphic and physics games.

Perhaps you did not compare these processors. Same core count, same thread count, same cache size, literally the only difference is maximum boost clock. Base clock is only 100Mhz different. Under most non-single threaded tasks, these are going to perform nearly identical.