Intel Core i7-7500U vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 2093.00
$ 1277.95
$ 815.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1350 points
3014 points
123% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2679 points
5168 points
92% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1002 points
2395 points
139% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

962 points
2286 points
137% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.43 points
60.09 points
156% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.8 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
64 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

857th of 1,089
538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-7500U vs Core i7-1185G7 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1185G7 is faster than the Core i7-7500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1185G7 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7500U. 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.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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