Intel Core i7-8500Y Benchmark, Test and specs

Last updated: 2024-04-16

The Intel Core i7-8500Y was released in Q1/2019 and has 2 cores. The processor can process 4 threads simultaneously and uses a mainboard with the socket BGA 1515. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Intel Core i7-8500Y achieved a result of 923 points (single-core) or 1,445 points (multi-core).

CPU lineage
In this classification you can see to which group of processors the Intel Core i7-8500Y belongs. We also show the direct predecessor and successor of Intel Core i7-8500Y.
Name:	Intel Core i7-8500Y
Family:	Intel Core i7 (298)
CPU group:	Intel Core i 8000Y (4)
Architecture:	Amber Lake Y
Segment:	Mobile
Generation:	8
Predecessor:	--
Successor:	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-8500Y has 2 cores. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-8500Y is 1.50 GHz (4.20 GHz). An initial performance assessment can be made using the number of CPU cores.

CPU Cores / Threads:	2 / 4
Core architecture:	normal
Cores:	2x

Hyperthreading / SMT:	Yes
Overclocking:	No
Frequency:	1.50 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core):	4.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (2 Cores):	2.70 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AI hardware:	--
AI specifications:	--

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-8500Y has an integrated graphics that the system can use to efficiently play back videos. The Intel Core i7-8500Y has the Intel UHD Graphics 615 installed, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors (192 shaders).

GPU name:	Intel UHD Graphics 615
GPU frequency:	0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo):	1.05 GHz
Compute units:	24
Shader:	192
Hardware Raytracing:	No
Release date:	Q4/2018

Max. displays:	3
Generation:	9.5
Direct X:	12
Technology:	14 nm
Max. GPU Memory:	8 GB
Frame Generation:	No

Hardware codec support

Processors with integrated graphics can process video codecs faster. Support for modern codecs can significantly increase system efficiency during video playback.

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 type:	Memory bandwidth:
Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i7-8500Y supports a maximum of 16 GB memory. Depending on the mainboard, the processor can use a maximum of 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. This results in a maximum bandwidth of the main memory of 29.9 GB/s.

LPDDR3-1866 DDR3L-1600	29.9 GB/s 25.6 GB/s
Max. Memory:	16 GB
Memory channels:	2 (Dual Channel)
ECC:	No
PCIe:	3.0 x 10
PCIe Bandwidth:	9.9 GB/s

Thermal Management The Intel Core i7-8500Y has a TDP of 5 W. Based on the TDP, the system manufacturer can and must adapt the cooling solution to the processor.

TDP (PL1 / PBP):	5 W
TDP (PL2):	--
TDP up:	--
TDP down:	--
Tjunction max.:	--

Technical details

Modern production reduces the waste heat of a processor and increases its efficiency. The Intel Core i7-8500Y is made in 14 nm and has 4.00 MB cache.

Technology:	14 nm
Chip design:	Monolithic
Socket:	BGA 1515
L2-Cache:	--
L3-Cache:	4.00 MB
AES-NI:	Yes
Operating systems:	Windows 10, Windows 11, 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:	Q1/2019
Release price:	390 $
Part Number:	--
Documents:	Technical data sheet

Intel Core i7-8500Y
2C 4T @ 1.50 GHz (4.20 GHz)

buy now on Amazon and save!

Rate this processor

Here you can rate this processor to help other visitors make their purchase decision. The average rating of this processor is 0 stars (0 ratings). Rate now:

Benchmark results

The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-8500Y 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.


	Intel Core i7-6770HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	926
	Intel Xeon E5-2643 v3 6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz	926
	Intel Core i5-8500T 6C 6T @ 3.50 GHz	924
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	923
	Samsung Exynos 990 8C 8T @ 2.73 GHz	923
	Intel Core i5-8260U 4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz	923
	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4 10C 20T @ 3.40 GHz	923

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.


	Intel Core i5-5350U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1447
	MediaTek Kompanio 520 (MT8186) 8C 8T @ 2.05 GHz	1447
	Qualcomm Snapdragon 712 8C 8T @ 2.30 GHz	1447
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1445
	Intel Atom x6425RE 4C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	1445
	Intel Atom x6427FE 4C 4T @ 1.90 GHz	1445
	Intel Core i3-4340TE 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	1445

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.


	Intel Core i7-4790S 4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz	1205
	Intel Core i3-10110U 2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz	1204
	Intel Core i7-7700T 4C 8T @ 3.80 GHz	1204
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	1202
	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X 16C 32T @ 4.00 GHz	1201
	Intel Core i5-8350U 4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz	1198
	Intel Xeon Silver 4214R 12C 24T @ 3.50 GHz	1196

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.


	Intel Core i7-4650U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	1755
	Intel Pentium Gold G5420 2C 4T @ 3.80 GHz	1755
	Intel Core i5-2320 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	1751
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1748
	Raspberry Pi 5 B (Broadcom BCM2712) 4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	1747
	Intel Pentium Gold G6505T 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	1745
	AMD A10-9700 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	1744

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.


	AMD Ryzen 3 2200G 4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz	308
	Intel Core i5-7200U 2C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	308
	AMD EPYC 7601 32C 64T @ 3.20 GHz	307
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	306
	AMD Athlon Gold 3150U 2C 4T @ 3.30 GHz	306
	Intel Core i7-5600U 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	305
	Intel Core i5-8210Y 2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz	302

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 A8-5600K 4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz	611
	AMD Phenom II X4 945 4C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	606
	Intel Celeron N5100 4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz	604
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	602
	AMD Athlon II X4 645 4C 4T @ 3.10 GHz	601
	AMD A4-3320M 2C 2T @ 2.60 GHz	597
	Intel Core i5-4310U 2C 4T @ 3.00 GHz	595

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 HD Graphics 5600 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	Intel Pentium G4500 Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	Intel Pentium G4520 Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	Intel Core i7-8500Y Intel UHD Graphics 615 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	Intel Core i5-10200H Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	Intel Core i5-10500H Intel UHD Graphics 630 @ 1.05 GHz	403
	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.


	Intel Core 2 Quad Q9700 4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	2532
	Intel Core i5-3230M 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	2531
	AMD A9-9410 2C 2T @ 3.20 GHz	2530
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	2526
	AMD A10-4655M 4C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	2526
	Samsung Exynos 8890 8C 8T @ 2.60 GHz	2524
	Intel Core i3-7102E 2C 4T @ 2.10 GHz	2520

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 i3-4130 2C 4T @ 3.40 GHz	136
	Intel Core i5-4340M 2C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	136
	Intel Core i5-4690T 4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz	136
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 4.20 GHz	135
	Intel Pentium Gold G6400TE 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	135
	Intel Core i7-4710HQ 4C 8T @ 3.50 GHz	135
	Intel Core i7-6560U 2C 4T @ 3.20 GHz	135

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.


	AMD Phenom II X4 810 4C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	263
	Intel Core i5-4258U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	263
	Intel Core i3-7100U 2C 4T @ 2.40 GHz	262
	Intel Core i7-8500Y 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	261
	Intel Core i7-4500U 2C 4T @ 2.60 GHz	261
	Intel Core i3-3240T 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	260
	Intel Core i5-4300U 2C 4T @ 2.90 GHz	260

Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,488 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,461 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,755 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,703 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
656 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
604 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,026 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,392 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,106 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,101 entries

Popular comparisons


1.		Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Core i5-8200Y
2.		Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Core i5-10210Y
3.		Intel Core i7-1065G7 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y
4.		Intel Core m3-8100Y vs Intel Core i7-8500Y
5.		Intel Core i7-7Y75 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y
6.		Intel Core i5-10210U vs Intel Core i7-8500Y
7.		Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Core i7-10510Y
8.		Intel Core i7-8500Y vs Intel Core i5-8250U
9.		Intel Core i5-1035G7 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y
10.		Intel Core i5-L16G7 vs Intel Core i7-8500Y