really a big increase in performance over my 4C/8T 3770k@4.4ghz thats doing 162/805 and already 4y old.. lol@intel

The Single Core Performance is pretty good, but the 8950 seems to lose out massively to the lower parts in Multi-core so for some reason it can't hold it's clocks which is very odd.

fry178:

really a big increase in performance over my 4C/8T 3770k@4.4ghz thats doing 162/805 and already 4y old.. lol@intel

The 3770 is 6 yrs old, not 4. And of course anything past 6th gen is going to beat the 3rd gen i7s. Hell, my 8600k beats a 7700k

Big problem with the mobile CPU's is that most slim notebooks with I7/I5 can't handle the heat so the CPU is throttling, and you can't get the actual performance out of them, I got Xiaomi Notebook Pro with 8250U and I get better performance then most I7 8550U notebooks because I can make it work on 35W @ 3.4GHZ all cores and get over 700 CB without throttling, my nephew has the new HP Spectre X360 4K 8550U and hes max score is ~550 because cooling isn't enough. so going only by CPU specs is wrong and misleading, the Cooling is the limiting factor.

That's some ~8600k/1600X level of performance there on a laptop... Nice!! P.S: Cinebench wise of course, but still.. 😛

All are 45+ TDP parts these are going to be some bricks you have to carry around, more like desktop replacements than a laptop.

Dazz:

All are 45+ TDP parts these are going to be some bricks you have to carry around, more like desktop replacements than a laptop.

45 Watt itself on CPU/APU is not problem. Problem is when they pair it with similarly power hungry GPU. Then you give each one blower and has to be thicker and bigger. But one 45W chip alone can be cooled by 2 thinner and smaller blowers.