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Hey how's it going Dave TD here so traditionally when it comes to buying gaming laptops the CPU is a pretty easy decision I mean there's just not that many choices to choose from so last year it was the i7 7700 HQ and if you couldn't afford that you'd get the i-5 and the year before that it was the 6700 HQ and it's just always been really few options which was a kind of a good thing because it just made the process a lot easier but right now in 2018 for whatever reason there's so many good CPU options for a gaming laptops we already have the 8th gen you processors the KB like ours and those are quad core 15 watt packages and if you pair that up with an MX 150 which a lot of laptops do you actually get a pretty respectable gaming laptop it's not like a hardcore gaming laptop but you can play a lot of games with really respectable frame rates and as long as the laptop is cooled properly which not every company does but if it is you're good to go for like light to moderate gaming now the H processors coming out are more exciting the i9 is gonna be nutty but the to more common ones are these two the i7 and the i-5 that i7 looks ripe 6 cores strong turbo and it's in the same 45 watt package as the previous generation so you don't have to have any kind of crazy thermal solution and we've seen some preliminary benchmarks pop up and it really does look promising compared to the current i7 7700 HQ it's like 30 to 35 percent better for multi-core benchmarks now in the past a lot of developers haven't put in the time to optimize their games for just more than 4 CPU cores but because of Rison last year and just the state of the industry now we're core count is kind of creeping up slowly I think companies will put in the time so there's another batch of CPUs made by Intel the KB Lake G and there's five of them these are kind of a collab between Intel and AMD so they're running Intel CPUs with an AMD Vega GPU there's two different GPUs the Vega MGL and the Vega mgh GH being the stronger more powerful one of the two the performance is good like really good for the wattage and I think that's its biggest advantage efficiency its energy efficient it's space efficient because they're packing the CPU the GPU and the vram all into one chip it's still not an APU it's a CPU and a dead GPU but it's just packaged into one thing so you can build something that's smaller thinner and lighter than a laptop that uses a discrete GPU from Nvidia now the preliminary benchmarks have been pretty interesting we're looking at something between a 1050 and a 1050 Ti for the GL and then for the GH the better one that performance is gonna be something around at gtx 1060 and they'll both be quite energy efficient but the big disadvantage i see with these is pricing the GH model in particular is gonna start at like 1,200 bucks maybe even more and you're getting remember gtx 1060 performance for $1200 and i feel like at that price point you can get something that's like a 1070 from nvidia it's gonna be thicker it's gonna be louder it's gonna be bigger but you're gonna get better performance for your money the last ones are the AMD chips so they have eight core and six core tries and laptops that are using these desktop CPUs which are really powerful but I mean their desktop CPUs so that doesn't really count in this conversation they're also just stupidly expensive the ones that are most interesting to me are there new rise in mobile aps and they're integrated GPUs on these things are so much better than the integrated Intel GPUs like the HD 630 or if they even the UHT 630 is just miles ahead of the Intel integrated GPUs it benchmarks well but the games are just so poorly optimized with these drivers that it just looks like a crappy card if they can fix those drivers and they will but if they can fix it quickly enough it'll be a strong competitor for casual gaming and if you see what devices are putting these into like we're talking ultra books and just really thin devices it's pretty cool you can bring something like this to school to work and just kind of kick it for some light gaming at home so this video has been filled with tons of like nerd numbers and stuff like that I'm just gonna break it down really simple right now if you're looking for a CPU for a gaming laptop there's obviously a lot of choices to choose from it's obviously harder this year to choose one than last year if you want something that's like the best of the best and you have the money then the i7 and the i9 that's popping out from Intel soon will be a good bet but if you have something like a smaller budget and you're just looking for a thinner device that gets decent gaming performance take a look at the kb lake g from intel so these are the intel cpus combo'd with the AMD Vega GPUs it's good performance and you should comfortably break 60 frames per second for most games and if you don't care too much about image quality or resolution you can draw - you processor paired up with the nvidia MX 150 but if you want some of that's like really budget and you're looking for someone that's like thin and light that doesn't cost too much those upcoming rise in mobile ap use should be pretty good some of them are ready out is just that the drivers aren't great and if you just give it some time from the flash out I think they can be great for just the casual gamer with a smaller budget okay hope you guys enjoyed this video hope it clarified some things thumbs if you liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time