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what's up guys Ibrahim with hardware connects and about three months ago Intel announced their new a generation mobile processors code-named cable a car specifically designed for ultra bucks the specs looked really promising I mean we're talking quad-core processors jammed inside these ultra slim form factor notebooks that promise to deliver a fantastic multitasking performance along with better battery life over last generation if you're interested to learn more about these new cpus make sure to check out our explained video right over here but today we're gonna test out Intel's claims on these new CPUs and it's very rare to get the opportunity to benchmark two notebooks side by side featuring processors from different generations but you know identical specs in terms of the rest of the hardware so this video is gonna be pretty straightforward I'll be running a series of synthetic and real-world benchmarks to see what sort of a performance improvement we get with these new processors but also perhaps come to a conclusion as to whether or not it's worth buying a discounted seventh generation notebook for the holidays or pick up one of these newer notebooks with the new a generation processor so let's dive in right after this so it was kind of a love at first sight you know there's really nothing like this exterior I love the metallic color the tinted glass panel the RGB fans at the front it's basically a see-through case and who doesn't love that your graphics card can go vertical the top is Radiator friendly and the right side is so unique when exposed thanks to these cable covers so you can show off everything you've got with the aged 500 key master check it out inscription below okay so the contenders for this test are two notebooks from Dell more specifically the XPS 13 both units are powered by Core i7 processors and the only difference between the two is their microarchitecture and a different memory configuration right now the agent model is about $200 more expensive but if you factor in Dell sales into equation that number jumps up to about $400 on one hand we have a unit with a cable a core i7 75-68 processor featuring two cores four threads with a base clock of 2.4 gigahertz and a boost up to 3.8 it comes with 4 megabytes of cash and a TDP of just 15 watts the newer XPS 13 model features the eighth generation KB Lake our eye 78550 year processor that's quad core hyper threaded comes with a slightly lower base clock of 1.8 gigahertz but a maximum turbo frequency up to 4 gigahertz it also comes with twice the amount of cache and surprisingly the TDP remains the same when compared to last gen and that last point is important since Intel was able to achieve this by drastically separating these speeds achieved by single and all core performance you see on a desktop side we're used to seeing a few hundred megahertz but in this case the Delta is several gigahertz basically Intel's prioritizing multiple threads over raw frequencies when an application determines all eight threads are needed unfortunately there isn't a significant increase in graphics performance until did we name it from HD to you HD graphics implying that these new CPUs can playback 4k content without breaking a sweat they feature the same 300 megahertz base clock but the boost clock is a hundred megahertz higher on the eighth generation CPU now coming back to these notebooks the newer XPS 13 isn't that different from its predecessor in terms of design and features both look exactly the same I'll be the 7th gen review sample I got came in this rose gold finish but you can pick up the newer model in the same color they featured the exact same 13.3 inch qHD + infinity edge display and it's really hard to tell the difference between the two because the color reproduction along with viewing angles and brightness levels are on point vio once again remains identical however I do want to point out the older model that I have here comes with eight gigabytes of lpddr3 RAM clocked at 1866 megahertz versus sixteen gigabytes found on the newer model that's clocked at 21 33 megahertz the SSD is also very in size so the SEM gen model has a 256 gigabyte nvme drive or as the 8th gen has a 512 gigabyte nvme drive now remember both these notebooks can be configured the way you like directly from Dells website so if you want a seventh-generation notebook with a core i5 processor or you know 5 tol gigabytes of storage or perhaps 16 gigabytes of RAM you can always do that or you could pick up these in the newer XPS model with a core i5 eight generation processor 8 gigabytes of RAM and perhaps a 512 256 or a one terabyte variant remember pricing can also vary depending on configuration and again this all comes down to what you really want but in this case I mean I'm gonna be testing two of the higher-end versions so I'll be testing a core i7 model from the a generation and a core i7 model from the same generation both on the XPS 13 notebooks alright so let's move on to the performance segment comparing the two CPUs our first round of basic synthetic tests shows the 8550 you dishing out roughly 47% more performance compared to the seventh gen 7560 you programs like Cinebench r15 in the multi core test takes advantage of the 85 50 you really well the OpenGL test doesn't really show a major difference between the two in terms of frame rates but that was expected considering there isn't a major improvement with the hardware the same story applies with our real-world tests the new a generation CPUs blazed through multitasking especially with intensive applications like handbrake Lux mark & WinRAR GIMP is a slight exemption here since it seems like the higher base clock on the assumption CPU seems to favor this program but overall I'm really impressed with the new cable a card processors now I wouldn't recommend editing videos on both these machines since the lack of a dedicated GPU severely affects render times but if you we're to give it a shot anyway the a generation series contributes a lot towards reducing render times in this case I ran a one-minute 4 KH doses or export using Premiere Pro CC 2017 and the quad-core architecture on the new CPUs were roughly 20% faster than last gen that's pretty amazing guys I also push the integrated graphics on both models and all I can say is that the new CPUs performs quite well in its low-voltage form it really is a welcoming upgrade from its predecessor running over watch at 1080p at the lowest setting give us around 68 frames per second on the newer model when compared to 54 frames per second on the 7 gen model dota 2 ran almost neck to neck on both notebooks and I think part of that had to do with optimizations but in all honesty I wouldn't recommend an ultrabook for gaming because it isn't really meant for that task unless if you decide to hook up an external GPU but that's a conversation for another video asked for temperatures this one wasn't too surprising number adding more course into the exact same chassis in this case the same notebook can result in higher idle and low temperatures as you can see the newer model did run a little bit hotter than last gen so to keep that in mind and this brings us to our last test battery life do note that both these novels feature a 60 watt hour battery and our heavy load test consists of running reel bench on a loop until the battery is completely depleted surprisingly the new Asian model surpassed the older one by 50 minutes but what really blew my mind was during the light load test where I looped refreshing a webpage the new XPS 15 lasted an hour and a half longer than last year's model this really proves that Intel has done a terrific job balancing performance and power efficiency on these new mobile cable acar CPUs well the results really do speak to themselves guys Intel wasn't really joking with these newer eighth generation CPUs I mean we're talking is significant roughly a 50% increase in terms of raw multitasking performance when compared to 7 generation and what's what really surprised me the most was the battery life out of both these notes when I was doing the comparison test the a generation notebook pretty much did an hour and a half at last an hour and a half longer than the sound generation know but given the fact that it came with a quad-core CPU and so that to me was just insane and it kind of blew my mind for a second so it really is an awesome upgrade if you're coming from a skylake or even a previous generation number or if you're in the market for an ultrabook I think right now there's probably the best time to pick up one of these new notebooks so I'd love to hear your thoughts about this comparison between sound generation mobile see versus a Jen what do you guys think about it leave a comment down below would you rather spend that money to pick up the newer XPS 13 model or would you you know consider getting the discounted seven generation notebook because they'll has some pretty good deals online so yeah let me know in the comments down below I knee bar with hurricane axe thank you so much for watching make sure to subscribe for more stem our content and we'll see you in the next one