i7 6820k or i7 7700hq

trustNme · Feb 7, 2017

I am in the process of buying a gaming laptop and want to keep my budget below $2,000. I was wondering would it be worth it to get the MSI GT73VR Titan-017 with the i7 6820hk or the MSI GT72VR Dominator Pro-448 with the newer i7 7700hq. I plan to mostly do gaming, no video editing, or streaming.

Ecky · Feb 7, 2017

The 7700K is one generation newer and has higher clockspeed. Chances are good you wouldn't be able to tell them apart though. What are the rest of the specs?

TJ Hooker · Feb 7, 2017

Should perform pretty much the same. The 7700HQ is slightly faster, but the 6820HK is unlocked, so you should be able to overclock it to 7700HQ (or higher) speeds anyway.

Chugalug_ · Feb 7, 2017

Any reason you need a gaming laptop?
I can get you 1080 SLI for 2k easily, gaming laptops have awful performance for the money.
Do you already have a desktop?

trustNme · Feb 7, 2017

Their specs are pretty much identical 16 GB of RAM in both, they both have GTX 1070. The Dominator has a 256 SSD instead of 128 SSD. I'm sure since it's by the same manufacturer everything else is identical hardware wise.

trustNme · Feb 7, 2017

Chugalug_ :

Yes I already have a gaming desktop, but I am not home enough to really enjoy it. So while I'm away I can have something a bit more practical and not have to sacrifice too much in performance.

trustNme · Feb 7, 2017

Ecky :

Their specs are pretty much identical 16 GB of RAM in both, they both have a GTX 1070. The Dominator has a 256 SSD instead of 128 SSD. I'm sure since it's by the same manufacturer everything else is identical hardware wise.

Chugalug_ · Feb 7, 2017

trustNme :

Right, sounds good.
The 7700HQ is the better CPU by quite a decent margin, disregard the SSD sizes since both will work just fine. You're only meant to use it for OS and software anyway, games only see decreased loading times from an SSD, nothing more.

TJ Hooker · Feb 7, 2017

How do you figure? It has only 100-200 MHz higher stock clocks, and in return you lose overclocking and 2MB of cache.

Chugalug_ · Feb 7, 2017

Sorry, should have phrased that better.
Performance is nearly identical, with the 7700HQ being a tiny bit faster.
However it draws significantly less power, and as a result that laptop will have much better thermal performance.

TJ Hooker · Feb 7, 2017

Chugalug_ :

...Do you have a source for that? 7700HQ and 6820HK have the exact same TDP.

trustNme · Feb 7, 2017

Chugalug_ :

So even with the 6820k overclocked the 7700HQ will still be a tiny bit faster?

Chugalug_ · Feb 7, 2017

They have the same theoretical TDP because they're based off the same architecture, but under the same load the 7700HQ doesn't draw as much, about 15% less actually.
I'll try and find where I saw this, I think it was on a review of a Kaby Lake laptop.

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