Generally, laptops using the lower powered cores (the i5-7300 seems to come in either dual (u) or quad core (hq) variants) are often power or thermally limited. Intel themselves advertise that the chips can be configured for either 45 or 35 watts - undoubtedly there's a noticeable performance impact from that outside of throttling.
So that may explain why you might not be getting the expected performance that a simple "kaby late @ specific clockrate" might suggest, or even comparing the "same" chip if a different device has better cooling.
So yes, a kaby lake at 3.5ghz boost should be fast enough for pretty much everything - *if* it can maintain that boost.
So that may explain why you might not be getting the expected performance that a simple "kaby late @ specific clockrate" might suggest, or even comparing the "same" chip if a different device has better cooling.
So yes, a kaby lake at 3.5ghz boost should be fast enough for pretty much everything - *if* it can maintain that boost.