Intel Core i7-8650U Benchmark, Test and specs

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The Intel Core i7-8650U has 4 cores with 8 threads and is based on the 8. gen of the Intel Core i7 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the BGA 1356 socket and was released in Q3/2017. The Intel Core i7-8650U scores 1,069 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 3,079 points.
Intel Core i7-8650U

CPU lineage

The segment in which we have classified the Intel Core i7-8650U. Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Intel Core i7-8650U.

Name: Intel Core i7-8650U
Family: Intel Core i7 (293)
CPU group: Intel Core i 8000U (7)
Architecture: Kaby Lake U Refresh
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 8
Predecessor: --
Successor: --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i7-8650U has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i7-8650U is 1.90 GHz (4.20 GHz). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 4 / 8
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 4x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 1.90 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.20 GHz
Turbo Frequency (4 Cores): 2.60 GHz

Internal Graphics

The Intel Core i7-8650U has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Intel Core i7-8650U uses the Intel UHD Graphics 620, which has 192 texture shaders and 24 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: Intel UHD Graphics 620
GPU frequency: 0.30 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.15 GHz
Compute units: 24
Shader: 192
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q3/2016
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9.5
Direct X: 12
Technology: 14 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 16 GB
Frame Generation: No

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

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 processor can use up to 32 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 38.4 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
DDR4-2400
38.4 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

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 15 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

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

Technical details

The Intel Core i7-8650U is made in 14 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 8.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 14 nm
Chip design: Monolithic
Socket: BGA 1356
L2-Cache: --
L3-Cache: 8.00 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: Q3/2017
Release price: 400 $
Part Number: --
Documents: Technical data sheet

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Intel Core i7-8650U 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.


Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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 i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1041
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 AMD Ryzen 5 2600
6C 12T @ 3.90 GHz
1040
Intel Core i7-7660U Intel Core i7-7660U
2C 4T @ 4.00 GHz
1040
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
1037
Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L
28C 56T @ 4.00 GHz
1037
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X
16C 32T @ 4.00 GHz
1035
AMD Ryzen 5 4680U AMD Ryzen 5 4680U
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
1033

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 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 i3-8100 Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3618
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
3587
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
3587
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3576
Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3 Qualcomm Snapdragon Microsoft SQ3
8C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3571
Intel Core i5-4690 Intel Core i5-4690
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
3549
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
3544

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 i7-4790K Intel Core i7-4790K
4C 8T @ 4.40 GHz
1073
Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6 Intel Xeon E3-1505M v6
4C 8T @ 4.00 GHz
1072
Microsoft XBox Series X Microsoft XBox Series X
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
1070
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
1069
Intel Core i3-9100F Intel Core i3-9100F
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
1069
Intel Core i3-9100 Intel Core i3-9100
4C 4T @ 4.20 GHz
1069
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v6
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
1069

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.
AMD Ryzen 7 2800H AMD Ryzen 7 2800H
4C 8T @ 3.30 GHz
3088
Intel Core i5-7600T Intel Core i5-7600T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3084
AMD Ryzen 5 3500C AMD Ryzen 5 3500C
4C 8T @ 2.50 GHz
3080
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-3740QM Intel Core i7-3740QM
4C 8T @ 2.70 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-6700HQ Intel Core i7-6700HQ
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3079
Intel Core i7-4770T Intel Core i7-4770T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3076

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 i7-8750H Intel Core i7-8750H
6C 12T @ 4.10 GHz
1382
Intel Core i7-8565U Intel Core i7-8565U
4C 8T @ 4.60 GHz
1376
Intel Xeon W-3245M Intel Xeon W-3245M
16C 32T @ 4.60 GHz
1374
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
1373
Intel Core i7-9800X Intel Core i7-9800X
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
1372
AMD EPYC 7542 AMD EPYC 7542
32C 64T @ 3.40 GHz
1371
Intel Core i7-8709G Intel Core i7-8709G
4C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
1371

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 i7-6820EQ Intel Core i7-6820EQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
3588
Intel Core i7-4750HQ Intel Core i7-4750HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
3587
Intel Core i5-7600T Intel Core i5-7600T
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
3582
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
3564
Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
10C 20T @ 2.60 GHz
3558
Intel Core i7-6820HK Intel Core i7-6820HK
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
3556
Intel Core i5-6585R Intel Core i5-6585R
4C 4T @ 3.20 GHz
3554

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 Core i3-8109U Intel Core i3-8109U
2C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
366
Intel Xeon Platinum 8268 Intel Xeon Platinum 8268
24C 48T @ 3.90 GHz
366
Intel Xeon Platinum 8268L Intel Xeon Platinum 8268L
24C 48T @ 3.90 GHz
366
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
365
Intel Core i3-8100 Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
364
Intel Core i7-4770K Intel Core i7-4770K
4C 8T @ 3.90 GHz
361
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
360

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.
Intel Core i7-4770 Intel Core i7-4770
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
1349
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
1307
AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
1307
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
1299
Intel Core i5-6500 Intel Core i5-6500
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
1299
AMD FX-8350 AMD FX-8350
8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
1298
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz
1288

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 i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz
442
Intel Core i7-6700 Intel Core i7-6700
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz
442
Intel Core i7-6700K Intel Core i7-6700K
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz
442
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
Intel UHD Graphics 620 @ 1.15 GHz
442
Intel Core i5-10210U Intel Core i5-10210U
Intel UHD Graphics (Comet Lake) @ 1.10 GHz
441
AMD RX-416GD AMD RX-416GD
AMD Radeon R6 (Merlin Falcon) @ 0.58 GHz
440
Intel Core i7-4940MX Intel Core i7-4940MX
Intel HD Graphics 4600 @ 1.35 GHz
432

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 i3-10100TE Intel Core i3-10100TE
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
6244
Intel Core i3-8300 Intel Core i3-8300
4C 4T @ 3.70 GHz
6242
Intel Core i7-4860HQ Intel Core i7-4860HQ
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
6236
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
6234
Intel Xeon D-1622 Intel Xeon D-1622
4C 8T @ 3.00 GHz
6219
Intel Core i7-8565U Intel Core i7-8565U
4C 8T @ 2.40 GHz
6205
Intel Xeon E3-1265L v3 Intel Xeon E3-1265L v3
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
6194

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 i7-4810MQ Intel Core i7-4810MQ
4C 8T @ 3.70 GHz
683.8
AMD FX-8350 AMD FX-8350
8C 8T @ 4.10 GHz
691.3
Intel Core i5-4570 Intel Core i5-4570
4C 4T @ 3.40 GHz
699
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
700
AMD Ryzen 3 2200G AMD Ryzen 3 2200G
4C 4T @ 3.65 GHz
701.4
Intel Core i5-8250U Intel Core i5-8250U
4C 8T @ 2.30 GHz
705.3
Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3 Intel Xeon E3-1225 v3
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
707.1

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 Xeon E5-2620 v2 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2
6C 12T @ 2.10 GHz
1770
Intel Core i3-9100F Intel Core i3-9100F
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1762
Intel Core i7-7700HQ Intel Core i7-7700HQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1760
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 1.90 GHz
1758
Intel Core i7-4910MQ Intel Core i7-4910MQ
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
1756
Intel Core i7-4900MQ Intel Core i7-4900MQ
4C 8T @ 2.80 GHz
1753
Intel Core i3-9100 Intel Core i3-9100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1751

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.
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
176
Intel Core i3-7320 Intel Core i3-7320
2C 4T @ 4.10 GHz
176
Intel Core i7-8700T Intel Core i7-8700T
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz
176
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 4.20 GHz
175
Intel Core i5-7600 Intel Core i5-7600
4C 4T @ 4.10 GHz
175
Intel Core i5-8500B Intel Core i5-8500B
6C 6T @ 4.10 GHz
174
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX
32C 64T @ 4.20 GHz
174

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 FX-8370E AMD FX-8370E
8C 8T @ 3.80 GHz
616
Intel Core i3-8100 Intel Core i3-8100
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
616
Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4 Intel Xeon E5-2623 v4
4C 8T @ 2.90 GHz
615
Intel Core i7-8650U Intel Core i7-8650U
4C 8T @ 2.60 GHz
614
Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3 Intel Xeon E5-2623 v3
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
613
Intel Core i7-4790T Intel Core i7-4790T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
613
Intel Core i7-4770T Intel Core i7-4770T
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
613

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