The X1C is a lovely device still, its thin, lightweight, iGPU and usually has the best screen Lenovo offers for their 14″ laptops. A dGPU MacBook Pro would be a better choice for that kind of crap, or an XPS 15. I do like the X1 Carbon, though I wouldn’t recommend it for being a daily driver for someone who wants to do light gaming or video editing, it is pretty decent for photoshop. Thanks to Intel funding companies to produce Ultrabooks, the X1 Carbon is here to stay, and it became the flagship for Lenovo’s ThinkPad division. All in all, if the price difference isn’t huge and the difference in the two CPUs’ performance isn’t huge, we’d say go for the one from a later generation.The X1 Carbon? This is certainly not the god tier IBM ThinkPad™ we wanted, it is the successor to the X300 series which was a competitor to the MacBook Air. Lastly, newer generations of processors generally are better at power efficiency and heat management and are a smaller drain on the battery. You can check the benchmarks for major GPUs. This is not applicable when the notebook you’re considering comes with a dedicated AMD or NVIDIA GPU, but could impact performance if not.
Keep in mind that newer generation also brings better GPU. However, this is just one side of the story. AMD’s A8 and A10 seem to be no match for Intel chips and are at the bottom alongside fourth generation Core i3 chipsets. Although that’s not the case always and you should best compare the two CPUs you’re considering. Or, a fifth gen Core i7-5500U seems to do a better job than the sixth gen Core i5-6200U. For instance, a fourth gen Core i5-4200U outperforms the fifth gen Core i3-5005U. Check out the scores below.Īs the above results would tell you, an older generation Core i5 can give better performance than say a newer generation Core i3. For instance, Core 5xxxU will always belong to fifth generation, while a 6xxxU would be from the sixth generation Skylake architecture. The first numerical in the CPU nomenclature depicts its generation.
Also, these are all laptop variants belonging to the U series. We’ll only be covering the popular ones to keep things simple. We’ve also put them against some chips from AMD’s arsenal, in case you’ve a doubt there too. To help you with with it, we’ve put major Core i3, i5, and i7 processors against each other to see how they perform on certain benchmarks. Whether to go for a newer 5th gen Broadwell Core i3 or a fourth generation Haswell Core i5? Of course, newer generation offers a better battery life and performance, but that’s when you’re comparing apples to apples. We know how confusing picking a laptop can be.
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