Any significant performance differences between these 2?

[el nombre]

I'm looking for a new laptop in the £600-700 range and have come across these two:

Medion Erazer P6661
Intel Core i7-6500U Dual Core (2.5GHz, 4MB Cache, Intel Turbo Boost Up To 3.1GHz)
8GB (DDR3 1600MHZ)
128GB SSD
1000GB
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 950M with 4GB DDR3L Dedicated Memory

StormForce Wildfire
Intel Core i7 6700HQ - 2.6 GHz
8 GB RAM
1TB Hard Drive + 128GB SSD
NVIDIA GeForce GT940


Neither of them are brands I know much about so I guess the first question would be whether people had any experience with either of them and if so, would they recommend them. Assuming they're not both terrible, do people think there would be much of a difference in actual performance? The specs are pretty similar and I'm not really that sure how much performance varies between the different processors and gfx cards etc. I was told that the Medion would probably be better for gaming and the StormForce would be better for video editing etc but I was actually hoping to be able to do a bit of both to be honest so not really sure if one is a better all rounder than the other. Any advice appreciated.

 

[Rroff]

Those CPUs throw a bit of a spanner in the works - the 6700HQ is a proper 4 core, 8 thread while its a bit cheeky to even put the 6500 in the same context as i7 being 2 core, 4 thread.

The 950 (which is about as low as you want to go really if you want to play anything half modern) is in the region of twice the performance of the 940 - that said neither are really good enough to make those CPUs a drawback for gaming.

I'd be surprised if you can't do better for £600-700 but I'm a bit out of touch with what is available laptop wise at the moment.

 

[el nombre]

Cheers for the input. As far as gaming goes, the most advanced game I've got is BF4 but I'm not too worried about running it on max settings. Having said that, it would be nice to have a bit of future proofing. Are you saying that it's unlikely I'd notice any difference between the CPUs (as far as gaming goes at least) as the gfx cards are always going to be the limiting factor? I've been keeping an eye out for a while now but haven't really come up with many options in this price range... but maybe I'm not looking in the right places.

 

[tropicola]

maybe wait a little lots of TI laptops out/coming out

for this budget I wouldn't be surprised if you could get a 1050ti or 1060ti soon which will smash the 950m

failing that I bet the 960/970m prices will come tumbling down soon especially ones with 6th gen CPU since 7th gen is out etc.

and don't get the U cpu's they are just bad compared to a proper multi core /thread CPU.

example

http://processors.specout.com/compare/1886-1893/Intel-Core-i7-6500U-vs-Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ

Geekbench 32-bit, Single Core: Intel Core i7-6500U's score is 12.8% better.

• Geekbench 64-bit, Single Core: The Intel Core i7-6700HQ is tested to be 4.7% better.

• Geekbench 32-bit, Multi-Core: The score of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ measures 68.4% better than the Intel Core i7-6500U.

• Geekbench 64-bit, Multi-Core: The score of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ is 92.9% higher.

• Cinebench, Multi-Core: Intel's Core i7-6700HQ is 122.5% faster.

• Passmark Score: The Passmark score of the Intel Core i7-6700HQ measures 84.3% faster.

basically - single core 32bit stuff, you get 10% performance with the U< but if using 64 or anything that utilises multi cores (modern games) the HQ will smash the U performance wise.