Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Core i7-11700K vs Core i7-8550U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8550U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8550U outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. The Core i7-11700K also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.