Now it's time to check out the performance of the i-7 8550U model of
the me notebook air from shell me so in this video I'm gonna go through some of
the games that I tested on the i-5 model and we'll try and compare the
performance to see if it's actually going to be faster with that 16
gigabytes of RAM and the slightly higher turbos that it has so on all four cores
this model can turbo up to 3.7 gigahertz with the power limits and thermals
permitting but I found that the thermals tend to be really good on this but I
will keep an eye on them I have HW info you can see running at the moment to
keep an eye on both the GPU thermals and of course the CPU so I'll report back on
that at the end of this video and also check out the surface temperatures of
the laptop so just like my review of the i-5 model with eight gigabytes of RAM
I'm going to overclock the GPU here so that MX 150 it's not very powerful it's
like a ten thirty and video ten thirty and I have added here an additional 220
to the core clock and then 1,000 megahertz to the RAM clock as well just
to squeeze out the maximum performance we can possibly get now it's perfectly
stable at these over clocks here you don't run into temperature problems as
you'll see later on in this review and also there's no artifacts or anything
like that so it's a safe overclock at least on both of my systems that I have
tested out with this particular card now idle temperatures 35 on the GPU and
around 35 37 on the CPU so very good and I can just hear the fans on the absolute
lowest setting quite little hum there at the moment I'm also running the latest
driver which is 388 0.3 and the CPU I'm going to apply a 30 watt power limit
here you can see and then an under volt of 0.095 that's just to help get the
maximum performance here now the stock power limit is 15 watts but very quickly
the CPU will run into power limits and clock itself down a little bit so I'll
start out here words grand theft auto 5 now just to show you that I'm running
exact same settings so 1080p and things are on normal here
exactly the same as the i5 version and I have noticed that it tends to run on
average about 15 to 20 frames per second faster this is the exact same area my
exact same safe that I first started out with - on the i5 version so just goes to
show you that the slightly higher turbos do help out in this game so now on to
battlefield one I am running in 1080p and this is on the lowest graphic preset
here which perhaps maybe a little bit too demanding when you're in a huge
server at the moment I've got 64 players and so you know it has a lot to render
so that maybe just a little bit too much but we'll test it out if not I'll lower
this down to 720p to see if that's going to really improve on our framerate so I
jump straight into the action here and we're getting around 50 frames per
second 60 so that's actually not too bad better than I thought
okay 55 frames per second and you're not too bad considering when you have a lot
there's almost 64 players on here so I think it's doing well now if you had a
little bit concerned with those frame dips then of course to slow it down to
720p will definitely help next up project cars on medium settings
1080p exactly the same ones I went with on the i5 version again okay so a bit of
lag there in this start drop down to 48 foot frames per second try and make up
to ground the line does look quite good
and I think you can even probably get away with some of those settings there
on high
so you know issues with this game I mean this ran on the i5 version is well
perfectly fine
so now looking at The Witcher 3 so this is 1080p on the lowest settings and you
can see it hovers around 40 frames per second which is I mean okay if you must
run it in 1080p but it's not ideal so I prefer to drop this game down to 720p
shall do now and I'll just show you that it really does make quite a difference
just allowing that resolution so the game caps out at 60 frames per second
there's nothing we can do about that and you'll see now that in 720p that it is
now just a continual solid 60 frames per second meaning that it's very smooth and
this is really how you want to play the game so highly recommend this title you
go with 720p so this is counter-strike 1080p on the highest possible settings
and you can see framerate is very decent so these kind of games something like
League of Legends dota 2 are all gonna have really good playable super frame
rates on the highest settings there so not an issue at all for the MX 150
now our term Raider you can see is running quite poorly here only 20 frames
per second most of the time it barely gets above that sometimes up to hour
maybe 30 or so but this is on 720p this is on the lower settings as well so you
can't really improve it unless you lower the resolution and it's just way too
slow the fact that it makes really trying to actually shoot people very
hard because it's just way too laggy now checking back on the thermals after
three hours of gaming the CPU got up to a maximum of 84 degrees you see right
here when it counts the package temperature now bear in mind that I have
overclocked the GPU and I've also added that power limit that I talked about in
the start of this video so that's why it's getting 80 to 84 degrees
if you lower keep the problem at standard then it will probably only be
about 78 or 79 degrees after three hours of gaming which is really good I mean
it's fine perfectly find those temperatures and then the GPU that gets
up to 70 degrees 70 to their maximum so overall the internals are fine now I
have just checked with my thermal probe these surface of it it's getting up to
44 45 degrees so this is exactly the same as the i5 model the surface temps
here it's just above the keyboard so there we go the i7 doesn't really give
too much of a boost to most games when it comes to the framerate apart from I
did notice that Grand Theft Auto 5 was running a little bit faster we're
getting an average of about 15 or so frames per second more so a little bit
of a boost there thanks to that higher turbo but when it came to other games
like Battlefield 1 no real difference there whatsoever even though of course I
did use the same GPU overclock and that's the 20/20 on the core and then
the one gigabyte on the memory so you can't get away with playing as you seen
there that most games 1080p with decent frame rates but the most demanding games
like Witcher 3 ran you know average at 1080p it wasn't fast enough for me 40
frames per second yes was playable at least over 30 I
considered to be playable but you really want to lower the resolution down on the
most demanding games here to something like 720p so it is clear that it's not a
gaming notebook really I feel if you want to game then go for something at
least minimum at 1050 T I like the likes of the MSI GL 62 M that you can see in
the background on the right here that performs a lot better all games 1080p
with high or medium settings and sometimes even higher depending on what
kind of game it is so really no benefit from the i7 in gaming just that 16
gigabytes of RAM is quite useful when it comes to multitasking and everything
else and video encoding and editing so if you haven't checked it out already
please do check out the reviews of the me notebook pro here I have the i5 and
i7 reviews up thank you so much for watching this gaming review and I do
hope to see you back in a channel soon