Gaming Benchmarks

The general consensus is the i7-8750H provides a significant performance increase over the i7-7700HQ for productivity workloads, specially those that are multi-threaded and can brand good use of the extra two cores. But what about gaming, particularly on a typical gaming laptop that is limited in both CPU and GPU power?

Permit's boot things off with i of the most CPU express games we test with: Civilization 6. Hither the 8750H provides a decent 29 percent operation uplift when looking at average framerates, compared to the 7700HQ in an MSI laptop with the aforementioned GPU and memory configuration. However, one percent lows don't benefit at all from the extra CPU power, so the 'experience' of the game on the newer eightth-gen CPU isn't necessarily superior.

Assassin'south Creed Origins is another game that likes a fast CPU, and here we're seeing a 12 pct gain in favour of the 8750H when looking at average framerates using the Ultra preset at 1080p, which extends to 30 pct in one percent low operation. When we're talking most a difference betwixt 36 and 47 FPS in that crucial 1% low effigy, having that extra CPU power is very handy.

I besides tested with the Medium preset at 1080p, and that margin isn't as big in favour of the 8750H, at 11 percent in average framerates and 24 percent in ane percentage lows. At to the lowest degree in this game, it appears both quality presets have some CPU limitations.

Spotter Dogs 2, another Ubisoft title, famously punishes the CPU. Here we're looking at an 8 percent gain in favour of the 8750H compared to the 7700HQ in average framerates, which grows slightly to eleven percent looking at 1 pct lows. This is using the Ultra preset, so if you lot want to turn the settings downwardly to the Medium preset, the margin grows to 12 percent on average, and xvi percent in one% lows.

Surprisingly, Mass Effect Andromeda benefits a off-white fleck from the faster 8750H. Using the Ultra quality preset at 1080p, the game is 17 percent faster on average with the 6-core CPU, and 27 percent faster looking at the 1% depression results.

In some games, the quality preset you opt for will determine whether you benefit from the actress CPU horsepower, at least with a GTX 1070 Max-Q. If yous love the Ultra preset, you'll only run into upward to an 11 percent performance improvement in Rise of the Tomb Raider for example, just if yous switch to High at 1080p wait sixteen per centum better 1% lows.

Several other games at fairly typical quality levels showed unmarried digit or even zero performance improvements with the 8750H. Thou Theft Auto V, for case, performed within the margin of fault of a 7700HQ system using High settings, and that'south with average framerates that exceed 100 FPS. Prey, which produces a i% low figure above threescore FPS using the Very Loftier preset, showed no performance gains with the 8750H.

Hitman, which can exist CPU express at times, surprisingly showed no difference to i% depression performance with the 8750H when playing at Ultra item settings. Middle-earth: Shadow of War was effectually 6% faster with the 8750H regardless of whether you played using the Ultra or High preset, the latter of which provides a 1% depression above 60 FPS.