Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Core i7-8550U

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Price

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$ 3231.00
$ 969.00
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2465 points
17% slightly better overall score
2102 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points
10% slightly better gaming score
3556 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
1683 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
1608 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
43.52 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3315 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2622 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1050 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
878 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
1.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
33% slightly more pcie lanes
12

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,092
707th of 1,092

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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