Intel’s 8th generation is live and it is currently represented on the market by a few models equipped with the Kaby Lake Refresh chips. One such chip is the Core i5-8250U that we commented a few days back because it ranked 31st in our Top Laptop CPU Ranking.
The Core i5-8250U is the direct successor of the 7th gen Core i5-7200U but it has the characteristic tricks of the 8th gen up in its sleeve so we expect to see a big performance improvement in this comparison.
For the sake of this comparison, we will be using the newest iteration of Acer’s Swift 3 which is one of the first models to hit the market using the new Core i5-8250U. And as for the Core i5-7200U, we will be using the test results from the Lenovo Ideapad Miix 510 which scores impressively high for a 2-in-1 device.
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