Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 21

REVIEW

improvementoveritspredecessor,thethoroughly
triedand tested Core i7-8750H.
Our HandBrake test tells the story. Here we take a
30GB MKV file and encode it to the ‘Android Tablet’
preset. It’s an intensive task that gives us a good idea
of the laptop’s CPU performance at load. The G7
15 finished in about 29 minutes, a perfectly average
score despite the generational jump. By contrast the
Lenovo Legion Y740 and Acer Predator Triton 500,
both equipped with the Core i7-8750H, finished in
approximately 30 minutes.
Prior to the release of the new 9th-gen CPU Intel
touted a sizable clock increase, jumping from the Core
i7-8750H’s base of 2.2GHz to a base of 2.6GHz on
the Core i7-9750H, and from 4.1- to 4.5GHz in Turbo,