Running on battery power limits performance. These core temperatures are again warmer than what we've come to expect from a 14-inch laptop with no discrete graphics. When running Witcher 3 on Performance mode to represent stressful loads, GPU clock rate and temperature would stabilize at 1397 MHz and 84 C, respectively, compared to only 1197 MHz and 80 C when running on Balanced mode. The temperature consequences of the more demanding Core i7-12700H CPU in our HP is evident.
In comparison, many Core U-series-powered 14-inch laptops would stabilize at significantly cooler temperatures of around 70 C such as on the recent Dell Inspiron 7420. Clock rates and package power draw would then drop to the 2.2 to 2.9 GHz range and 45 W, respectively, in order to maintain a slightly cooler core temperature of just under 90 C. When running Prime95 to stress the CPU, clock rates and package power draw would boost to 3.5 GHz and 60 W, respectively, for the first couple of seconds until hitting a core temperature of 95 C. The Nvidia option is not available on the Core-P or Core-H configurations likely due to thermal limitations. The latter in particular is the only SKU with a discrete GeForce RTX 2050 option albeit at the cost of ~40 percent slower multi-thread performance compared to our Core i7-12700H.
Users can configure with the slower Core i5-1240P or Core i7-1255U if desired. It's a fast laptop for the size, but it could have certainly been faster given what we've observed on other laptops with the same processor. The deficit is wide enough that even the more power efficient Core i5-1240P is only about 10 to 15 percent slower than our H-series Core i7-powered HP. The Dell XPS 17 9720, for example, ships with the same Core i7-12700H CPU and yet it offers 40 to 45 percent faster multi-thread performance even after accounting for any throttling. Raw multi-thread performance is about 20 percent slower than expected from a Core i7-12700H laptop.
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