Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i7-1165G7

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-1165G7

Price

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$ 969.00

$ 206.66

$ 762.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

3157 points

51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

5503 points

56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

2492 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

2381 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

56.64 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2914 points

6862 points

135% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

4847 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

1713 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) 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

2.8 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 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

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

517th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2020 August

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 i7-1165G7 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1165G7 beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. 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 i7-1165G7 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core i7-1165G7 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.