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SvennoJ on 01 January 2023
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Pemalite said:

Keep in mind that your old system may be using older, higher latency and/or slower memory sticks.

My old Ryzen 2700u notebook had DDR4 2400mhz and my Ryzen 4700u notebook had DDR4 3000mhz memory for instance.
So it was better to just get DDR4 3200mhz memory sticks to drop into my 11400H. - No point holding back CPU performance with DDR4 2400mhz/3200Mhz, especially when you are already held back by the CPU.

And yes, the 12700H is vastly superior to the 8750H... It's a more efficient architecture in general.
Plus in heavily threaded workloads, it can leverage all 14 cores/20 threads verses the 6 cores/12 threads on the 8750H.

Then you have the 9MB vs 24MB of cache, 4.7Ghz vs 4.1Ghz boost clockspeeds and more.

I wouldn't be surprised if you had anywhere between 50% to a doubling in single threaded performance... And much more in heavily threaded.

I wouldn't bother turning boost off, unless I was running with integrated graphics that shared TDP.

Ahh good point. The faster memory wasn't available in 2021 so I settled for 32GB of 2667 mhz DDR4.

The problem is, most games, FS2020 included, are bottle necked by a single core doing most of the work. So it comes down to single core speed rather than more efficient multi threading. Boost makes a big difference in fps, yet then it gets throttled every minute to twice a minute and the fps crashes down. Turning off boost keeps this one under 88c, no throttling, more steady performance. Boost heats up the cpu real fast.

Anyway 50% or more boost in single threaded performance would be worth upgrading for if I can find it on sale. I rather double my performance between upgrades yet CPUs just don't really get faster anymore. I do spend most of my gaming time on my laptop nowadays so might as well focus my expenditure there. But I'll hold off until after PSVR2 :) Less than 1/3rd the price of a new gaming laptop, kinda easy choice!

More efficient multi-threading might get me back into video editing. Constantly having to stop waiting for previews to render with a lot of tracks overlapping kinda killed that for me.