Intel Core i3-8109U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Core i3-8109U vs Core i7-8550U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Core i3-8109U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8550U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-8109U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8109U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U outputs less heat than Core i3-8109U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8109U. The Core i7-8550U also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.