Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon X5570

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon X5570 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5570 performs better than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5570 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5570 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.