Intel Core i7-8650U vs Intel Core i7-960

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

0.55% slightly better overall score

1995 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3216 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points

1629 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points

1563 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

32.27 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1700 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

503 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

3.2 GHz

68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

33% slightly more supported memory

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

715th of 1,089

719th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2009 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8650U vs Core i7-960 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-960 performs better than the Core i7-8650U. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-960 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8650U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-960 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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.