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

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8550U

Price

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$ 3231.00

$ 969.00

$ 2262.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2440 points

16% slightly better overall score

2100 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3882 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3550 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2013 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

1684 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1938 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1609 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

43.52 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3315 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2622 points

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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

644th of 1,102

713th of 1,102

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6700HQ performs better than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700HQ 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 i7-6700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.