Intel Core i7-7600U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 3235.00
$ 1499.99
$ 1735.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1234 points
7084 points
474% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2391 points
9220 points
285% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

922 points
6469 points
601% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points
6362 points
621% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.63 points
159.93 points
458% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
16
700% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
22
450% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.8 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

12
28
133% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
96 GiB
200% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

892nd of 1,089
186th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-7600U vs Core Ultra 7 155H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 155H is faster than the Core i7-7600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-7600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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