Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2085 points

13% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1671 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1597 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

29.86 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

706th of 1,089

753rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

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Supports ECC memory

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Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8550U performs better than the Xeon E5-1603 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.