Clevo W550SU - extremely poor IGPU performance, upgrading cpu from i5-4210m to i7-4710mq

Hi all

I bought this laptop second hand a few months ago, and now, trying to upgrade it (more as a personal goal, I have plenty of experience building / fixing desktops, but limited experience with laptops)

My previous CPU was a i5-4210mq. A very good middle range cpu for its times.
I found a i7-4710mq, and decided to swap it.

Now, the problem: testing the new cpu, I get an extremely low result about the iGPU, even though they are supposed to have the same IGPU: Intel HD 4600 (or almost the same).

The following website: userbenchmark.com,
with the i7-4710mq gives a "Gaming score" of 17%
while, with the i5-4210m I got more than 40%

that is compatible with what they report here:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/12839/IntelR-CoreTM-i5-4210M-CPU---260GHz

while the results they report for the i7-4710mq here:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/SpeedTest/9397/IntelR-CoreTM-i7-4710MQ-CPU---250GHz

are a completely different story.
My results are very close to these, about Desktop and Workstation, but completely off about Gaming (they report 65%, I get 17%).

Any good reason for this?
I already have the very latest graphics drivers, and DirectX.

The only other VERY weird thing is that if I use the "High Performance" Windows profile, or the "Balanced" one, I get more or less the same results, sometimes better results with the Balanced profile.

So... maybe is it a overheating problem?
(thinking along the lines of: the High Perfomance profile "triggering" the CPU / GPU to throttle earlier because of the overheating, and performance are even slightly worse?)

Anyway, if there is any difference, the Integrated GPU in the i7 cpu should perform slightly better, because the i7 is just more powerful than the i5.

Any explanation / help / advice?

I tested the CPU with OCCT and it looks fine (going to use it to test the IGPU, as well)

 

Are you getting the same results if you run other CPU benchmarks? What kind of temperatures are you getting while you are running the benchmark?

 

Make sure you have two sticks of ram for dual channel as this helps performance.

 

Hi,

The ram is already in dual channel.

Any advice about which software to use to test CPU / GPU for stability / performance?

 

Where did you get the CPU from?

 

You're going by user bench and you're trusting that? Grab 3DMark and run that. Or even Passmark.