Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i7-8550U vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8550U is faster than the Core 7 150U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. Both the Core i7-8550U and Core 7 150U have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8550U. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.