Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i5-1334U

Core i7-8550U vs Core i5-1334U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1334U 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1334U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Core i5-1334U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8550U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1334U. Despite this, the Core i5-1334U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1334U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. The Core i5-1334U 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.