Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i5-1035G1

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points
2206 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points
3778 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points
1757 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points
1678 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
37.01 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2914 points
4027 points
38% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

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

1.8 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
320 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089
683rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Core i7-8550U vs Core i5-1035G1 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1035G1 is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8550U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1035G1. Also, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-8550U also has slightly 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.

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