Intel's Broadwell-U Core i5-5200U And i7-5600U

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Lenovo was kind enough to give us access to some of its new Broadwell-U powered noteboooks today, and we used the short time we had to run a few quick comparison benchmarks.

 

The first of these is Lenovo's ThinkPad X250. At a svelte 20.3 mm in depth, it weighs less than three pounds and can be purchased with up to a 512 GB SSD or a 1 TB hard disk, with a 12.5" FHD 1080p screen. Powered by Intel's Broadwell-U Core i5-5200U processor and HD 5500 graphics, it's a good representation of the kind of product that we expect to replace previous-generation ultrabooks that run on the po[CENSORED]r Core i5-4200U, a processor found in a wide range of products including Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro and Microsoft's Surface 3. In fact, we have included Yoga 2 Pro benchmark results in order to compare them.

 

 

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The ThinkPad W550s, on the other hand, is a powerful workstation-class notebook armed with the new Core i7-5600U. It features a 15.5" IPS touchscreen with a 3k resolution, up to 16 GB of onboard RAM, and Nvidia's Quadro K620M professional discrete graphics chipset.

 

Before we discuss the benchmark results, we'd like you to keep in mind that these tests were performed on pre-production prototype hardware with non-optimized BIOSes. It's likely that these products will be improved before they make their way to consumers. As final versions become commercially available in the [CENSORED]ure, we will bring you updated bench numbers.