Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i7-5600U

Core i7-8550U vs Core i7-5600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8550U beats the Core i7-5600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8550U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-5600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5600U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-5600U. The Core i7-8550U 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.