Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Core i7-8550U vs Core Ultra 7 255H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 255H is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8550U. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has 16 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 Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Also, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. The Core Ultra 7 255H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.