Intel Core i7-7500U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-7500U is a 2 core processor. It can handle 4 threads simultaneously and was introduced in Q4/2016. The Intel Core i7-7500U is based on the 7. generation of the Intel Core i7 series and requires a mainboard with the socket BGA 1356. The Intel Core i7-7500U scores 842 points with one CPU core in the Geekbench 5 benchmark. When using all CPU cores, the result is 1,826 points.
Intel Core i7-7500U

CPU lineage

Here you can see which group the Intel Core i7-7500U belongs to and which processor is the predecessor of the Intel Core i7-7500U.

Name: Intel Core i7-7500U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 7000U (18)
Architecture: Kaby Lake U
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 7
Predecessor: Intel Core i7-6500U
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The 2 CPU cores of the Intel Core i7-7500U clock with 2.70 GHz (3.50 GHz). The number of CPU cores and the clock frequency of the processor are largely responsible for the overall performance.

CPU Cores / Threads: 2 / 4
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 2x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 2.70 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 3.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores): 3.50 GHz

Internal Graphics

With the Intel HD Graphics 620, the Intel Core i7-7500U has an build in graphic solution. It has 24 SM processors, which have a total of 192 texture shaders. The iGPU not only enables games, but also significantly accelerates video playback.

GPU name: Intel HD Graphics 620
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.05 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q2/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 32 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

Processors that have an integrated graphics can play videos faster and more efficiently. This can have a positive effect on the battery life of notebooks, for example.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Core i7-7500U supports up to 32 GB memory in up to 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum memory bandwidth of 34.1 GB/s.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2133
DDR3-1866
34.1 GB/s
34.1 GB/s
Max. Memory: 32 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth: 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

With the TDP, the processor manufacturer specifies the cooling solution required for the processor. The Intel Core i7-7500U has a TDP of 15 W.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 15 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: --
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: --

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-7500U has a 4.00 MB large cache. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm. Modern production increases the efficiency of the processor.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1356
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 4.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Linux
Virtualization: VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date: Q4/2016
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-7500U have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD EPYC 7401 AMD EPYC 7401
24C 48T @ 3.00 GHz
844
Intel Core i5-4400E Intel Core i5-4400E
2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz
844
Intel Core i5-7300HQ Intel Core i5-7300HQ
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
844
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
842
Intel Core i7-4950HQ Intel Core i7-4950HQ
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
842
Intel Core i7-4860HQ Intel Core i7-4860HQ
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
842
Intel Xeon Gold 6140M Intel Xeon Gold 6140M
18C 36T @ 3.70 GHz
842

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Samsung Exynos 880 Samsung Exynos 880
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
1830
Intel Core i7-860S Intel Core i7-860S
4C 8T @ 2.53 GHz
1828
AMD A12-9800 AMD A12-9800
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1827
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1826
Intel Core i7-5557U Intel Core i7-5557U
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1823
MediaTek Dimensity 6020 MediaTek Dimensity 6020
8C 8T @ 2.20 GHz
1822
AMD Athlon Gold 3150C AMD Athlon Gold 3150C
2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1822

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Athlon Gold 7220U AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
1180
AMD Ryzen 3 2300X AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
4C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1180
Intel Core i7-5950HQ Intel Core i7-5950HQ
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1180
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1178
Intel Xeon Gold 5218R Intel Xeon Gold 5218R
20C 40T @ 4.00 GHz
1178
Intel Core i7-7700HQ Intel Core i7-7700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
1178
Intel Core i5-4670 Intel Core i5-4670
4C 4T @ 3.80 GHz
1178

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
MediaTek Dimensity 800 MediaTek Dimensity 800
8C 8T @ 2.00 GHz
2280
MediaTek Dimensity 900 MediaTek Dimensity 900
8C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2279
Intel Xeon X3470 Intel Xeon X3470
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2275
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2274
Intel Core i5-7300U Intel Core i5-7300U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
2271
Intel Core i7-6567U Intel Core i7-6567U
2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
2271
Intel Core i7-3630QM Intel Core i7-3630QM
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
2265

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Pentium Gold G6400T Intel Pentium Gold G6400T
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
356
Intel Core i7-4770 Intel Core i7-4770
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
355
Intel Core i7-8705G Intel Core i7-8705G
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
355
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
354
AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm] AMD Ryzen 3 1200 [12nm]
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
354
Intel Core i7-8550U Intel Core i7-8550U
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
354
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
354

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 3 3200U AMD Ryzen 3 3200U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
751
AMD Ryzen 3 3250U AMD Ryzen 3 3250U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
751
Intel Core i7-7560U Intel Core i7-7560U
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
744
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
739
Intel Core i5-6300U Intel Core i5-6300U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
739
Intel Core i5-6200U Intel Core i5-6200U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
735
Intel Pentium Silver J5040 Intel Pentium Silver J5040
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
730

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i7-5700HQ Intel Core i7-5700HQ
Intel HD Graphics 5600 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Pentium G4500 Intel Pentium G4500
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Pentium G4520 Intel Pentium G4520
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
Intel HD Graphics 620 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i5-10200H Intel Core i5-10200H
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i5-10500H Intel Core i5-10500H
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403
Intel Core i3-9100TE Intel Core i3-9100TE
Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz
403

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 3 2200U AMD Ryzen 3 2200U
2C 4T @ 2.50 GHz
3690
AMD A8-3870K AMD A8-3870K
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
3684
AMD A10-9700 AMD A10-9700
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3660
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3659
Intel Core i5-2320 Intel Core i5-2320
4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz
3655
Intel Core i7-6650U Intel Core i7-6650U
2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
3650
Intel Core i5-2310 Intel Core i5-2310
4C 4T @ 2.90 GHz
3640

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i7-7600U Intel Core i7-7600U
2C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1167.3
Intel Core i5-6300U Intel Core i5-6300U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
1179.4
Intel Core i5-7200U Intel Core i5-7200U
2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
1232.5
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1327.4
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
6C 6T @ 3.30 GHz
1380.8
AMD FX-6300 AMD FX-6300
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz
1407.7
Intel Core i3-7020U Intel Core i3-7020U
2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz
1411.2

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i7-2600 Intel Core i7-2600
4C 8T @ 3.40 GHz
337
Intel Core i3-4160 Intel Core i3-4160
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
331
AMD Ryzen 5 2500U AMD Ryzen 5 2500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
329
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
325
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
325
Intel Core i5-2400 Intel Core i5-2400
4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz
317
Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3
6C 12T @ 2.80 GHz
316

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-7300U Intel Core i5-7300U
2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz
978
Intel Core i5-760 Intel Core i5-760
4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz
975
Intel Core i3-4160 Intel Core i3-4160
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
974
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz
973
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550
4C 4T @ 2.83 GHz
959
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9500 Intel Core 2 Quad Q9500
4C 4T @ 2.83 GHz
953
AMD Athlon 200GE AMD Athlon 200GE
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
952

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i7-5775C Intel Core i7-5775C
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
150
Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4
18C 36T @ 3.60 GHz
150
Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4
22C 44T @ 3.60 GHz
150
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Celeron G5920 Intel Celeron G5920
2C 2T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1220 v6
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149
Intel Core i5-7267U Intel Core i5-7267U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
149

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i3-8109U Intel Core i3-8109U
2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
381
Intel Core i5-7267U Intel Core i5-7267U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
379
Intel Core i3-4360 Intel Core i3-4360
2C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
377
Intel Core i7-7500U Intel Core i7-7500U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
376
Intel Core i5-7300U Intel Core i5-7300U
2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
375
AMD Phenom II X4 980 AMD Phenom II X4 980
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
375
Intel Core i3-7100T Intel Core i3-7100T
2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
371

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