Intel Core i7-6500U vs Intel Core i7-8550U

Core i7-6500U vs Core i7-8550U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8550U is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U 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 i7-6500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.