Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4775 points
47% significantly better overall score
3241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6751 points
34% slightly better gaming score
5004 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4152 points
52% significantly better multitasking score
2724 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4008 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score
2614 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
91.09 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points
7587 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
1843 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.6 GHz
12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
10 MiB
566% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

370th of 1,092
509th of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5-7467

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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