Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i7-8700 vs Core Ultra 7 155U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Core Ultra 7 155U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 155U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.