This isn’t the only Core i7 processor in Intel’s Comet Lake line-up.
What has increased is memory support, now up to DDR4-2933, as well as clock speeds.
That’s still a 7% increase on the 4.5 GHz Turbo the Core i7-9750H provided.
Test Setup: MSI GS66 Stealth
The test system for today’s review is theMSI GS66 Stealth.
This awesome laptop came packing the i7-10750H along with anRTX 2060discrete GPU configured at 80W.
We’re huge fans of the MSI GS Stealth range.
We think they look great and this is no exception.
This remains one of my favorite ultraportables from a design and functionality standpoint.
We’ve seen some thicker designs do up to 70W or more.
The GPU is fine sitting at 80W though, no concerns there.
Still, this is a bit higher than the 56-60W we normally saw with 9750H systems.
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One last quick note about undervolting before we head to benchmark results.
This was the case on the MSI GS66 Stealth.
You may re-enable undervolting through the advanced options in MSI’s BIOS though.
All of these margins are single-digit throw in stuff, so marginal change among them.
Blender delivers almost identical results to Handbrake when testing Intel’s current and last generation six-core processors.
You just aren’t gaining anything substantial from this move.
We mean, this isn’t a surprise as it’s basically the same silicon.
Code compilation was one of the best results we’ve seen for the 10750H.
A few variances in boost behaviour will be causing this.
As Excel is mostly multi-threaded, performance falls behind both the 10875H and 4800H by double digit margins.
In PCMark 10’s lighter workloads, the slight single-thread performance improvement does help out in some situations.
Given the Ryzen 7 results, six-cores at this price point is looking a bit dated.
This allows it to claim one of the only performance leads over the Ryzen 7 4800H that I saw.
Cryptography is another area where Ryzen is much faster in laptops, 35% faster when multi-threaded.
It wasn’t massively slower, but it was slower overall which is an odd result.
Nevertheless, both CPU options fell behind the Ryzen 7 4800H which is typical of video encoding applications.
And finally we get to our set of Premiere workloads.
And finally we have the Warp Stabilizer effect, which is lightly threaded.
When running a single warp stabilizer instance, the 4800H was 22% faster.
And this is most obvious when viewing clock speeds.
Those two last generation processors clocked around 3.1 GHz long term across six cores within the 45W power limit.
The 10750H ends up clocking around 3.2 GHz long term, so a 100 MHz increase in this instance.
And this carries through to looking at limited 8750H testing.
Our overall thoughts on the Core i7-10750H can be summarized neatly in a single word: unimpressive.
For productivity performance, there is no reason to consider an upgrade.
But given we’ve seen Intel still failing to beat AMD’s 45W processor with a 90W 8-core option.
The G14 is $300 cheaper, a 14-inch design instead of 15-inches and weighs 500 grams less.
That’s the real-world benefit AMD is providing right now, albeit in a limited number of systems.
