Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Core i7-1165G7

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2416 points

3157 points

30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4204 points

5503 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1922 points

2492 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1847 points

2381 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.05 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

56.64 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4025 points

6862 points

70% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4030 points

4847 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points

1713 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4117 points

4854 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

1716 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

2.8 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

641st of 1,089

517th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8259U vs Core i7-1165G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1165G7 is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-1165G7 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Also, the Core i7-1165G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1165G7 outputs less heat than Core i5-8259U thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.