Intel Core i7 8550U specifications and performance

Intel Core i7 8550U is a 4 cores and 8 threads CPU processor produced by Intel. Intel Core i7 8550U was released on 2017-08-21, the fabrication process is 14nm (nanometer), the CPU codename is -, the instruction set architecture is x86-64, and the CPU's integrated graphics (iGPU) is UHD Graphics 620.

Basic Information

Vendor / Supplier Intel
Short name i7 8550u
Release date 2017-08-21
CPU code name
Fabrication process 14nm (nanometer)
Instruction set architecture x86-64
Market Laptop
Integrated Graphics (iGPU) UHD Graphics 620

CPU core specifications

Total number of cores 4 cores
Total number of threads 8 threads
Number of performance cores 4 cores
Number of performance core threads 8 threads
Performance core base frequency / main frequency 1.8GHz
Performance core maximum turbo frequency 4.0GHz
Number of energy efficiency cores
Number of energy-efficient core threads
Energy efficiency core basic frequency / main frequency
Energy efficiency core maximum turbo frequency

CPU cache and frequency

Bus frequency 100MHz
L1 Cache 64 KB
L2 Cache 256 KB
L3 Cache 8 MB
Unlock multiplier No

Memory specifications

Maximum supported memory 32GB
Memory frequency support
  • - DDR4-2400MHz
  • - LPDDR3-2133MHz
Maximum number of memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 37.5GB/s
ECC support No

Package specifications

CPU Socket BGA-1356
Default thermal design power / TDP PL1 15W
Maximum Turbo Power Consumption / TDP PL2
Maximum temperature 100°C
PCIe interface PCIe 3.0
PCIe lane count 12

Integrated Graphics specifications

Integrated Graphics (iGPU) Intel UHD Graphics 620
Base frequency 300MHz
Maximum acceleration frequency 1150MHz
Number of execution units 24
Stream Processors / Shading Units 192
Texture Units / TMUs 24
Raster Operations Units / ROPs 3
Total Graphics Power / TGP 15W
FP32 computing performance
0.38TFLOPS

Cinebench R23 performance test

Single core performance score
982
Multi-core performance score
3119

PassMark performance test

Single core performance score
2056
Multi-core performance score
5930
Integer math 21 GOps/sec
Floating point math 13 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 22 Million Primes/sec (Millions find prime numbers per second)
Random string sorting 10.2 Million Strings/sec (Millions random string sorting per second)
Data encryption 2 GBytes/sec (Gigabits per second)
Data compression 75.9 MBytes/sec (megabits per second)
Physics simulation 454 Frames/sec (FPS)
Extended instruction test 4.7 Billion Matrices/sec (Billions matrix operations per second)

GeekBench v6 performance test

Single core performance
Multi-core performance
File compression
clang compilation
HTML5 browsing
PDF rendering
Text processing
Background blur
Photo processing
Ray tracing