Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i7-2860QM

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

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Intel Core i7-2860QM

Price

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$ 969.00

$ 98.02

$ 870.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

416% significantly better overall score

404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

463% significantly better gaming score

625 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

395% significantly better multitasking score

337 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

392% significantly better heavy workload score

324 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

27.93 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2914 points

7% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

2699 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1628 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

513 points

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

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

Identical

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

1,081st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2011 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8550U vs Core i7-2860QM comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8550U is faster than the Core i7-2860QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2860QM in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2860QM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2860QM 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.