Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2102 points
2143 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3556 points
9% slightly better gaming score
3261 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1683 points
1816 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1608 points
1755 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points
85.61 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2622 points
4580 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

878 points
1270 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
2.9 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

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

12
16
33% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
1.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 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

707th of 1,092
698th of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
8th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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