Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 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

2006 points

2810 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points

4729 points

39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points

2253 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points

2154 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points

45.54 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points

4219 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points

1435 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

86% significantly lower TDP

28 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

715th of 1,089

568th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8650U vs Core i3-1125G4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1125G4 beats the Core i7-8650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i7-8650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-1125G4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.