So I'm back here with the me notebook pro but this time around it's the most
powerful version you can get the i7 one so it's configured with an Intel eighth
generation i7 8550 u maximum turbo of 4 gigahertz it's a quad core so they've
really stepped up in terms of power going from the seventh generation which
with dual cause to now quad core which is great to see and the battery life
they're designing everything like that the sound I already covered that in my
full review of the i-5 model so there's no point in me repeating all of that so
check out that review if you're after information on that and it does have 16
gigabytes of RAM as you can see which is running in dual channel according to CPU
Z here and it is running at two thousand four hundred megahertz now I got the
sixteen gigabyte model because I feel for my 4k videos that I edit it just
runs so much smoother of course then there 8 gigabytes of RAM on the i5 model
and the GPU is exactly the same as the i5 model so it's the nvidia MX 150 so it
still has that problem that i encountered with the i5 model and that
is that the PCIe SSD in there now it ships with the samsung PM 961 which is
basically this drive here which I have installed myself a Samsung Evo 960 now
the reason behind its speed not being as fast as it could be is this right here
you can see that it says the interface is gentry that's fine but it's times to
speed so not times for now if it was times four then my reads be here on
sequential 's would be approximately 3000 megabytes per second the writes
would be about the same and the 4k speeds possibly a little bit faster
there but they are very good anyway so it's not really going to affect the
overall performance but if you wanted to get your maximum out of your nvme drive
then you're gonna be out of luck here which is disappointing
now on to benchmarks here with Geekbench 4 you can see it's about 500 points
faster on the single core score in 2000 points approximately on
multi-core score as expected for the faster clock rate so 400 more megahertz
and one megabyte more of cash on the CPU here's the score of the i5 version you
see the differences between both of them there so a nice boost there when it
comes to these synthetic benchmarks at least five straight 1.1 so this is the
score of the i5 and then slightly faster here on the i7 version so this is to be
expected because we have the same GPU which is the bottleneck when it comes to
3d performance or gaming performance now when we take a look at just GPU related
benchmarks so this does not actually use the CPU there's no real difference to
the i5 version so this is the hebben benchmark version number for score of
603 this is on the stock clocks and now when I overclocked the GPU here you can
see that you can increase that at school quite a bit you get almost 6 frames per
second on average game there so I definitely do recommend it if you are
going to do a little bit of gaming even though this isn't a gaming laptop to at
least overclock that GPU and now we'll take a look at the Cinebench r15 score
so the stock score is around 661 but I've applied my power limit tweak here
and you can see the score is there almost 800 CB which puts it almost
around the same speed as a core i7 4770 K which is really good considering this
is a quad-core notebook 15 watt processor now it's time to do that same
encoding test I did of video so 4k video will be encoded here now and Adobe
Premiere Pro with the preset which is the default one the
YouTube 4k so I've got one minute of footage the exact same footage I used in
my gaming notebook review with the i7 7700 HQ now that took three minutes and
nine seconds to encode one minute it's worth of
footage and the i-5 model which is the 8250 you on this me notebook took three
minutes and 19 seconds so let's have a look how much faster the i7 version is
going to be if any so I'll get this started right now I'll hit export and
then straight on to that timer so there we go it's just about to finish up now
we'll wait until that 100% bar disappears that means it's completely
done so there we go three minutes and 16 seconds not that much faster than the i5
version which got three minutes and 19 seconds now I did that 4k video encode
with a TDP of 35 watts here you can see so the default would be 15 but I have
increased it here to boost the performance so it does stock power limit
it will take approximately five minutes to encode one minute of 4k video in a
doe Premiere Pro but you see doing this speeds it up you lose where you gained
about two minutes which is really good but look at the temperatures here we did
pick up to 90 degrees so it is getting quite hot there so have a dedicated
video that will be coming out shortly of gaming on the i7 model with the 16
gigabytes of RAM just to have a look and see if it does perform a little bit
better but I'll just give you a quick snippet here so I'm going to test out
battlefield number one and this is on 1080p resolution and the lowest graphics
quality preset because let's face it I mean on medium or high it's gonna really
struggle this GPU we'll see how it runs anyway just to give you a little preview
before my gaming review
so they're about 32 players on this server well almost
about 31 or something and you can see that the framerate very decent and quite
playable
it's been running now for one hour and I have done some gaming some benchmarking
and tests now I just take the surface temperature it's up to 41 degrees at the
moment so that's slightly cooler then the 45 I got on the i5 version but I
think it's to do with the ambient temperature which is also a couple of
degrees less at the moment because we're heating into autumn to winter so we got
up to 66 degrees on the GPU and if I scroll up here the CPU maxed out here at
89 but do remember that I've overclocked the GPU and I have also added that power
limit so that's running at the moment at 30 watts which is double the power limit
than stock I'm currently stress testing the CPU and the GPU at the same time
here now it's at 100% fan speed and it maxes out around 53 disables
temperatures on the CPU at the moment this is what the stock 15 watts 71
degrees and 66 degrees on the GPU I'll give you a sample at the fans now at 100
cent
so there we go the 16 gigabytes of RAM is the real reason why I think you
should go for this particular model here if you can afford it and if you can get
one for a decent price so the i5 model is great it still performs well and the
difference between the two really isn't that much okay synthetic benchmarks they
show that they're a lot higher here but real-world use I've noticed that with 4k
encoding there that it's not really that much faster so you can push it quite a
bit harder when you increase those power limits but the thing that's got going
for it is that 16 gigabytes of RAM so that will future-proof this device it
means that when I edit 4k videos myself personally I have noticed that it just
feels a little bit smoother when I start to add a lot of different 4k clips there
with high bit rates it just handles it so much better our multitasking can be
pushed a little bit harder gaming performance because of the slightly
higher clocks maybe maybe slightly better but I'm
gonna have a review coming out soon of gaming on this i7 model here with a 16
gigabytes of RAM but it's not that much of a difference because obviously that
Nvidia MX 150 is the bottleneck of the system but this is a great laptop really
do love it it's got one of the best touch pads you'll find on a Windows
laptop the keyboard as well as excellent decent screen on there 360 luxe bright
fully laminated srgb coverage of 88% the build quality is premium battery life if
you're just on the integrated graphics and you're doing something light like
web browsing get up to about 9 hours which is really decent so overall it
does come Rick admitted by me and seriously think about that the i5 model
with the limitation of 8 gigabytes or this model here then with 16 gigabytes
and just future-proofing it a little more so if you haven't seen my referral
review of the i5 model which covers a lot of detail in regards to that touch
pad the keyboard the overall design then please check that one out and I do hope
to see you back in the channel bye for now