Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

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

3014 points

50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points

5168 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points

2395 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points

2286 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points

60.09 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points

5178 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points

1697 points

89% 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

4.8 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 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

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

715th of 1,089

538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2020 August

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 i7-1185G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1185G7 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.