How much of a performance difference between 28 and 45+ TWP?

[Infohawk]

I'm having trouble deciding between these TWPs. I'm not too concerned with battery life, so normally I would prefer the performance increase. However, it seems like some of the 28 TWP pacakges are more affordable considering the other specs I want (SSD, no optical drive, etc.)

If I go with a 28-TWP laptop, how much of a performance loss am I going to suffer? I have some compiling/programming and some gaming in mind.

 

[paperwastage]

if you are looking at the same generation of chips, then a higher TDP usually means more cores, higher clocks, more GPU performance etc.

battery life on idle (if you are doing the same tasks) should be roughly the same (since both chips are same generation, should have the same baseline tweaks / power levels to sip battery)

you'll have to look at what type of compiling/programming that you do. are you continuously compiling heavy stuff like android AOSP (will take 1-2 hours , should get an SSD and more cores), or just short stuff like school projects? google a few laptops and their chips and see how they stack up (usually 2x cores = 1.5-2x faster etc)