Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i5-1155G7

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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

2975 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

5094 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

2375 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

2277 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

53.40 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2914 points

5791 points

98% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz

2.5 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.5 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

541st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8550U vs Core i5-1155G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1155G7 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-1155G7 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core i5-1155G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-1155G7 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.