Intel Core i7-8750H benchmarks (Coffee Lake, 8th gen) vs i7-7700HQ and i5-8300H
The Core i7-8750H is the new mainstream processor for gaming and other types of performance laptops released on April 3rd 2018, as part of the Intel Coffee Lake platform.
It’s one of the first 6-core mobile processors from Intel and it’s meant to replace last year’s mainstream option, the Core i7-7700HQ based on the KabyLake platform.
In this article we’ll talk about the i7-8750H’s main traits and features, and then we’ll show you how it fares against the Core i7-7700HQ and the more affordable Coffee Lake Core i5-8300H, but also how it compares to the Ryzen 7 1700 architecture available on a limited number or performance notebooks.
For starters, the Core i7-8750H is a six-core processor with HyperThreading and TurboBoost, part of the Intel Coffee Lake H family of high-performance mobile processors, and built on the revised 14++ nm lithography. The Cores are clocked at 2.2 GHz, but they can Turbo up to 4. 2 GHz (Max Single Core Turbo).
Other technical details include a max TDP of 45W, 9 MB of L3 Cache and support for up to 2666 MHz dual-channel DDR4 memory. Coffee Lake also introduces the new Intel 300 chipset, with support for enhanced audio and IO, including faster wireless connectivity, better optimized TB3 support and configurations with Intel Optane memory, which supposedly helps speed up everyday tasks like opening documents and loading games. You’ll find more about the Coffee Lake platform for laptops from this article.
The table below includes the i7-8750H’s main specs and shows how it compares to the mainstream KabyLake i7 and the more affordable Coffee Lake i5 alternative.
| i7-8750H (Ark) |
i7-7700HQ (Ark) |
i5-8300H (Ark) |
|
| Litography | 14++ nm | 14+ nm | 14++ nm |
| TDP | 45W | 45W | 45W |
| Cores/Threads | 6/12 | 4/8 | 4/8 |
| CPU Base Frequency | 2. 2 GHz |
2.8 GHz | 2.5 GHz |
| Turbo – All Cores | 3.9 GHz | 3.4 GHz | 3.1 GHz |
| Turbo – 1 Core | 4.1 GHz | 3.8 GHz | 3.5 GHz |
| L3 Cache | 9 MB | 6 MB | 8 MB |
| Memory |
DDR4 – 2666 Mhz | DDR4 – 2400 Mhz | DDR4 – 2666 Mhz |
| Graphics | Intel UHD 630 | Intel HD 630 | Intel UHD 630 |
Compared to the i7-7700HQ, the Coffee Lake i7 gets two more cores and four extra threads, while maintaining a similar TDP of up to 45 W. The cores are clocked lower, with a Base Speed of just 2.2 GHz, but can reach higher Turbo frequencies (4.0 for four cores and 3.9 for all the six cores), which means performance per core is increased if the cores are able to maintain their top Turbo Boost Speeds in demanding loads.
The i7-8750H also gets more cache memory (9 vs 8 MB of RAM) and support for faster DDR4 memory.
All these translate in superior performance in benchmarks, as you’ll see in the next section of this article, as well as in real-life multi-thread loads.
| i7-8750H | i7-7700HQ | i5-8300H | Ryzen 7 1700 | |
| 3DMark 11 – Physics | 10891 | 8838 | 9360 | 12345 |
| 3DMark – Fire Strike Physics | 14228 | 10631 | 11872 | 16682 |
| Cinebench R15 CPU | 1087 cb | 734 cb | 801 cb | 1416 cb |
| Cinebench R15 CPU – Single Core | 175 cb | 159 cb | 166 cb | 143 cb |
| Cinebench R11.5 CPU | 11.51 pts | 8.1 pts | 7. 73 pts |
15.61 pts |
| Cinebench R11.5 CPU – Single Core | 1.98 pts | 1.8 pts | 1.86 pts | 1.63 pts |
| Geekbench 3 32-bit – Single Core | 4176 pts | 3675 pts | 3740 pts | 3800 pts |
| Geekbench 3 32-bit – Multi Core | 20868 pts | 14102 pts | 15050 pts | 26873 pts |
| Geekbench 4.1 64-bit – Single Core | 5138 pts | 4635 pts | 4771 pts | 4092 pts |
| Geekbench 4.1 64-bit – Multi Core | 20041 pts | 14783 pts | 14788 pts | 23725 pts |
| PassMark CPU | ~14450 | ~8900 | ~9780 | 14522 |
| PCMark 10 – Productivity | ~7200 | ~7000 | ~6950 | 7006 |
| PCMark 10 – Digital Content Creation | ~5400 | ~5400 | ~4600 | 6351 |
x264 HD Benchmark 4. 0 – Pass 1 |
205.69 fps | 168.4 fps | 188.3 fps | 156.7 fps |
| x264 HD Benchmark 4.0 – Pass 2 | 66.53 fps | 46 fps | 51.38 fps | 65.5 fps |
The i7-8750H results above are based on a single test unit (as of April 3rd 2018), a mid-range gaming laptop with 32 GB of DDR4-2666 MHz RAM and PCIe SSD storage. They can differ from implementation to implementation and we’ll update them as we test more laptops built on this Coffee Lake i7 hardware. The i7-7700HQ results are based on the averages from notebookcheck.net, while the i5-8300H results are based on a few of our own test units. We’ve also included the Ryzen 7 1700 in here, which motorizes the Asus ROG GL702ZC, just to show how the i7-8750H fares against one of the most powerful CPU configurations available in a notebook right now.
According to these results, the i7-8750H is about 10% faster than the i7-7700HQ CPU in single-core loads and 15-25% faster in multi-core loads, due to having more cores/threads and its ability to maintain higher Turbo Boost frequencies.
The Coffee Lake i5-8300H is mostly on par with the i7-7700HQ and even a little faster in multi-core loads, so the Coffee Lake i7 tops it as well, but is also a significantly more expensive option ($395 for the i7, $250 for the i5).
As far as the comparison to the Ryzen 7 1700 build goes, this ones retains its lead in multi-core loads, as it’s an 8-core/16-threads solution, but the i7-8750H outmatches it in single-core tasks.
When we draw the line, the Coffee Lake i7-8750H is a significant upgrade over last year’s i7-7700HQ and a solid reason to go for a configuration built on this 8th gen i7 in the second part of 2018. I expect most gaming laptops and high-performance notebooks to get a hardware refresh in the weeks and months to come, and there’s a fair chance many will get a few extra tweaks as well. And don’t forget that this 8th gen platform is not just about the bump in performance, but also about the extras provided by the new chipset (improved IO, Optane support, fast integrated wireless).
Bottom point, if you’re in the market for a new powerful notebook and plan to run applications that can benefit from the extra oomph provided by the 8th gen CPUs (programming/engineering software, VR, content editing, streaming), you should get a configuration based on the i7-8750H. On the other hand, if you’re primarily interested in a gaming laptop, you should also consider than you could save a pretty penny with an i5-8300H or even an older i7-770HQ configuration, without majorly affecting your gaming experience.
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~These comparison tests based on MSI gaming notebooks with powerful cooling system, not every notebooks could have this performance boost depends on poor cooling design~
Intel launched the latest 8th Gen mobile CPU platform in early April 2018, but most of the users did not know the big difference from 8th Gen.
Platform compared to previous generations, also got confused in-between H series and U series, so here I would like to help you to clarify these CPU info, and then we could go for the real benchmark status to find out why they got big difference! We used GT75, GS65, and previous GP62 to be the test platform conditions. If you got other brand’s models, the performance gap might be smaller due to lower power supply and cheaper cooling system.
The Big Difference from CPU Cores and TDPs
When we take a look on below table, we could see that the 8th Gen Core i9 and Core i7 all comes with 6 Cores 12 Threads architecture, that means the performance boost might be able up to 40%~50% on some benchmarks because of 2 more Cores and 4 more Threads compared to Core i7 7700HQ. And when we looking at Core i5 8300H and Core i7 8500U, they all comes with 4 Cores and 8 Threads, so that means they might be able to beat i7 7700HQ CPU in some benchmarks.
The more Cores comes with more heat and higher power consumption, so when you are using the 8th Gen Core i7 or even Core i9, the working temperature boost over 95°C is a sudden is really a normal thing, because CPU boost up means higher performance demand on some programs, the fan speed boost up slower in few seconds, but that will not cause any CPU damage or performance issue, because MSI gaming notebooks comes with more heatpipes and higher level cooling design! The GT75 got the most powerful cooling system and dual 230W adaptors to drive Core i9 CPU up to 4.
7GHz with matched performance and stable user experience!
* The Boost TDP was estimated from media reviews and internal tests with Intel XTU simulation. When all Cores up to highest clock, the TDP was much higher than basic TDP reference. *
How Good are MSI Best Cooling Systems for gamers
The GS65 Stealth Thin with 4 heatpipes and triple 47 blade fans, that made this cooling model called as “Cooler Boost Trinity”, the most powerful cooling system at this segment of gaming notebooks. The best ultra slim cooling solution could make GS65 Stealth Thin to have Turbo Mode with higher GPU overclock capability.
When we look at GT75 Titan, it comes with the masterpiece cooling solution called Cooler Boost Titan, 2 huge fans, 3 heatpipes for CPU and 6 for GPU and PWM that makes the GT75 Titan able to deal with over 120W or even higher possibility of CPU Boost performance with extreme overclock capability!
All the test result from Core i8950HK and Core i7 8750H was setting on SPORT Mode by MSI Dragon Center 2, so they still have the overclock capability if users set their notebooks on Turbo Mode, especially the GT75 Titan might able to OC the CPU to 4.
5GHz~4.7GHz with very stable working status.
Core i9 8950HK performance boost over 86% than i7 7700HQ
Take a look on the Multi-CPU test score on CineBench R15, the professional usage tests, this test runs great on Multi-Cores of heavy loading tests, 8th Gen Core i9 8950HK got 86% faster than Core i7 7700HQ, also over 24% faster than Core i7 8750H, the performance really worth as its price range. Even the Core i5 8300H is over 13% faster than Core i7 7700HQ. Some users think that Core i7 8550U is cheaper and longer battery life, that means the performance gap is also big, only 75% of the performance at 7700HQ.
More Cores and Higher Clocks got Faster X.
264 FHD Transcoding
The FHD video transcoding and editing works already become a daily works for gamers, youTubers and streamers, so I also looking forward to see what Core i9 8950HK and Core i7 8750H got great improvement on this part. I used «X264 FHD Benchmark» to test the performance gap between these 5 CPUs.
Let’s take a look on the result; the six Core i9 8950HK and Core i7 8750H makes much faster video transcoding works on FPS rate, transfer to the % rate, the i9 8950HK is 74% faster than i7 7700HQ,the i7 8750H is 39% faster than i7 7700HQ, even the i5 8300H is 9% faster than i7 7700HQ.
Pure CPU Test Got Highest Performance Gap on PASS Mark
The PASS Mark is one of the CPU demanded only benchmark that could show the different CPU architecture and Core performance difference, The Intel® Core i9 8950H got 99% faster than i7 7700HQ CPU in this task, Core i7 7850H got 62% faster than i7 7700HQ, thanks to the higher clock and more Cores, so you could see that Core i5 8300H almost same performance because it’s same 4C8T architecture and similar base clock.
The 3D Mark 11 Physics Scores Shows Big Difference
At last we look into the 3D Mark 11 on Physics test which represents the CPU performance capability on 3D tests which is more related to gaming performance, set MSI Dragon Center 2.0 at TURBO Mode, the Core i9 8950HK got 64% faster than Core i7 7700HQ, and Core i7 8750H got 23% faster than Core i7 7700HQ, even Core i5 8300H was 4% faster than i7 7700HQ. That means the 8th Gen Intel CPU platform really improves a lot for any kind of usage!
MSI notebook with best Cooling and power design that drives highest performance!
Not all of the notebooks with Core i9 8950HK or Core i7 8750H could get same performance boost to the top, here I want to tell you a very cruel thing, many of the notebooks that lack of good cooling design will not make the wish come true, because the Intel® Core i9 8950HK and Core i7 8750H needs much higher power consumption to get higher performance, the 45W TDP is just for based clock status, if you want to drive CPU to keep higher Boost clock for long term, the 8th Gen Core i9 and i7 CPU could easily over 60W~120W with 6 Cores full loading, that’s why a set of better cooling system and higher power supply are the MUST combinations!
Used the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) to adjust GT75 Titan of Core i9 8950HK with Turbo Mode, adjust the CPU TDP watts to evaluate some lower result status, let me show you the example on how the lower TDP capability and less power supply represent the lower CineBench R15 Multi-CPU scores, if the cooling system is bad or power consumption is lower, users will get much lower CPU performance than our benchmark status.