Rating of mobile processors for laptops

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  •  A person who is looking for a new laptop usually looks at the processor model first and then decides whether to buy the device or not. Processor performance depends on various features such as clock speed, number of cores, cache size, and many others.

Most modern laptops have one of the Intel processors installed, and only a few work on the AMD platform. While most chips come from one of these two companies, there are many different models that can be confusing to the uninformed user. Introducing mobile processor rankings based on , one of the oldest foreign online publications dedicated to hardware.

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10. Intel Atom Z3735F

Average battery life is 7 to 12 hours.

  •  Representatives of the Atom series are the cheapest processors manufactured by Intel. They are installed in budget laptops or tablets running Windows, such as ASUS EeeBook X205TA and Prestigio Smartbook 141A03.

  •  The Z3735F Atom is quad-core (like almost all Atom processors), is manufactured using a 22nm process technology, has 2MB of cache, and extremely low power consumption. Thanks to this, the device works for a very long time without recharging, but this is offset by low performance.

  •  Devices on the Atom platform are perfect for a gift to a schoolboy or student. They are good enough for watching YouTube videos, surfing the Internet and working in a text editor, but playing “heavy” games and working with applications that heavily load memory and processor will not work. Most of today's cheap laptops already use Celeron chips rather than Atom.

9. Intel Pentium N4200

Battery life is 4 to 6 hours.

  •  If you're looking to buy a laptop that costs between $10 and $000, there's a good chance it will have an Intel Pentium processor installed. This line of budget processors offers good performance, which is enough to work with an office suite and not too demanding games. But to do video editing or, for example, go on a boss raid in your favorite online game without lags and terrible “brakes” with such a processor will not work.

  •  The Intel Pentium N4200 is manufactured using a 14nm process technology, has 4 cores, 2MB cache and operates at a base frequency of 1,10GHz.

8 Intel Celeron N3050

Average battery life is 4 to 6 hours.

  •  Celeron chips are very common in Chromebooks because Google's OS is browser-based and doesn't require as much horsepower as Windows. Therefore, we do not recommend purchasing a Windows laptop with a Celeron or Pentium platform.

  •  Celeron processors have a TDP ranging from 4W to 15W. At the same time, the heat dissipation of Celeron models starting with N is from 4 to 6 W, and those ending with U – 15 watts, but their performance is higher.

  •  The N3050 has two cores, it is manufactured using a 14nm process technology, operates at a frequency of 1,60 GHz and has 2 MB of cache.

7.Intel Core i5-7Y54

Average battery life is 5 to 9 hours.

  •  In seventh place in the ranking of laptop processors is the seventh generation platform, made using the 14-nm process technology. It has a base frequency of 1,20 GHz (can be overclocked to 3,20 GHz), two cores and 4 MB of cache. Suitable for ultra-thin laptops that require long work and everyday tasks such as working with tables and texts, surfing the web, watching videos, etc.

6.Intel Core i5-7200U

The average battery life is 5 to 17 hours.

  •  If you are looking for a laptop with good performance and long battery life, look no further than the Intel U series chips. Memory Protection), Intel SGX (High Level Secret Protection) technology, and a secret key. In addition, this 5nm chip has two cores, a clock speed of 7200 GHz (upgradable to 14 GHz) and 2,50 MB of cache.

5.Intel Core i5-8250U

The battery works, on average, from 5 to 17 hours.

  •  U-series processors fall into models with a large battery and screen and can last more than 10 hours on a single charge.

  •  This chip has a TDP of 15W, which is a reasonable compromise between good performance and long battery life, but needs active cooling. Unlike the i5-7200U version, the i5-8250U has four cores, the operating frequency can be increased from 1.60 to 3.40 GHz, and the cache is not 3, but 6 MB.

4.Intel Core i7-7500U

Average battery life is 5 to 17 hours.

  •  This top-of-the-line processor from the 7th generation of Core processors is commonly found in business-class laptops suitable for high-performance tasks. It has 2 cores and 4 MB of cache, and thanks to Turbo Boost technology, you can increase the clock speed from 2,70 GHz to 3,50 GHz.

3.Intel Core i7-8550U

Average battery life is 5 to 17 hours.

  •  The new mobile microprocessor with integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620, four cores, a base frequency of 1,80 GHz and a Turbo frequency of 4 GHz has as much as 8 MB of cache. It supports up to 32GB of dual-channel DDR4-2400 memory and includes an Intel UHD Graphics 620 IGP running at 300MHz with a burst rate of 1,15GHz.

2.Intel Core i5-7440HQ

Average battery life is 3 to 8 hours.

  •  The second position in the ranking of mobile processors for laptops went to a powerful quad-core platform, which is perfect for the tasks of gamers, bloggers, designers and other users demanding laptop capabilities. And thanks to Hyper-Threading technology, Core i7 chips can have 8 parallel threads. At the same time, HQ processors are very demanding on laptop cooling, their TDP is 45 watts. For this reason, HQ chips are not installed in ultra-thin laptops.

  •  The Intel Core i5-7440HQ has four cores, a base frequency of 2,80 GHz, and a maximum frequency of 3,80 GHz and 6 MB of cache. The processor is made according to the 14-nm process technology.

1.Intel Core i7-7820HK

The battery works from 3 to 8 hours.

  •  HK processors are almost the same as HQ, but they have higher frequency and more cache. Many high-end gaming laptops have HK processors. The i7-7820HK model has 4 cores, base and maximum clock speeds of 2,90 GHz and 3,90 GHz (with Turbo Boost technology), and 8 MB cache.

  •  Different processors are suitable for different purposes. For example, if you want to play the latest games and work with large graphics applications, you will need a Core i7 quad-core processor. And the capabilities of the Core i5 are more than enough for the average user who does not need to work with audio and video editors, engineering programs, or play at ultra-settings.