Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2100 points
2198 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3550 points
23% slightly better gaming score
2867 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1684 points
1984 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1609 points
1931 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.52 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
25.76 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.8 GHz
2.53 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
50% significantly higher turbo speed
2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
433% significantly lower TDP
80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
288 GiB
800% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
68166% significantly more L3 cache
0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,100
690th of 1,100

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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