A more reasonable statement would be that the Core i7-8550U is the replacement - and yes, a significant performance upgrade - for the Core i7-7600U processor.Īt the end of the day, we're still talking about something that is only going to be decided when someone does a full and proper comparison of these parts in action.
The Core i7-8550U is not, in my mind, an upgrade for the Core i7-7700HQ. Intel may consider the performance improvement to be enough to call it a Mobile part, but it is still an Embedded U family 15 Watt SOC part and I don't believe that it's improved cache and more-efficient multitasking is going to be enough to beat the existing Mobile HQ family 45 Watt non-SOC part with equivalent Core and thread counts. Yes, I know, ARK calls it a Mobile segment part, but this is, in my mind, quite the stretch. When we talk about the new Core i7-8550U, we are talking about a Kaby Lake 14nm, 4 Core, 8 Thread, 15 Watt Embedded processor. When we talk about the Core i7-7700HQ processor, we are talking about a Kaby Lake 14nm, 4 Core, 8 Thread, 45 Watt Mobile processor. The TDP can also be reduced to 35 Watts (cTDP down), but this will reduce the performance.ĭue to its 45-Watt TDP, the CPU will be used in bigger notebooks with at least 15 inches most of the time.Intel's statements regarding performance improvements are specifically targeted at situations where the 8 Series processor (typically with additional Cores, cache, etc.) is a replacement for a 7 Series processor. Thanks to the 200 MHz higher clocks (5.5-7.6% depending on the Boost), the CPU performance is increased and roughly on par with the Core i7-6970HQ (2.8-3.7 GHz but with 128 MB eDRAM). The integrated graphics card is called Intel HD Graphics 630, but the architecture does not differ from the 530 GPU from the Skylake generation and only the clocks are slightly higher. The architecture was not changed, only the video engine got an update (see our Kaby Lake article). It is the successor to the Core i7-6700HQ from the Skylake generation and is manufactured in an improved 14 nm+ process, so the clocks are 200 MHz higher at the same TDP. The Intel Core i7-7700HQ is a fast quad-core processor for notebooks based on the Kaby Lake H architecture (7th generation Core), which was announced in January 2017 at CES.
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