I have a fancy £1600 gaming laptop from a couple of years ago – bought so I could try VR. It is an Aorus and felt really zippy on first purchase.
It’s lagging a bit now and VR games in particular are slow to load.
It has an i7-10750H and I wanted to see how this compares to modern options at various price levels.
Here are the results:
| PC | CPU | Integrated math | FP math |
| My laptop | i7-10750H | 41k | 26k |
| Intel NUC | i7-1260P | 66k | 44k |
| £850 gaming PC | i3-13100F | 44k | 34k |
| Wired2Fire £1500 gaming PC | i5-13600K | 125k | 92k |
| £2300 Alienware PC | i9-13980HX | 177k | 126k |
My take home from this is that Moore’s Law is still alive and well, and a couple of years make a huge difference. This is depressing in one sense – my fancy gaming laptop is not so fancy any more. One a broader level this is really exciting – performance continues to improve dramatically, which makes for a promising future.
The other reassuring factor is that you seem to get what you pay for.
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