Anyone interested in mobile CPU technologies? Well TechReport has posted a review on Intel’s 8th Gen mobile processor the Core i5-8250U. Head over there to check it out …
Watt for watt, the Core i5-8250U thoroughly outclasses its Kaby Lake predecessor in every test we can throw at it. Heck, Intel’s own 40% claim for generation-on-generation improvements from its 15W CPUs seems modest in light of our test results. The i5-8250U delivers a whopping 59% mean performance improvement over its predecessor when I take all of my tests into account. Intel can more than credibly claim a generational leap in performance from these chips, even if we’re “just” getting more Skylake cores in the same thermal envelope.
| Base clock speed |
Maximum Turbo speed |
Cores/ threads |
Cache size |
Memory channels |
Memory type |
Onboard graphics processor |
Max graphics frequency |
TDP | |
| i7-8650U | 1.9 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 4/8 | 8MB | 2 | Up to DDR4-2400 or LPDDR3-2133 |
Intel UHD Graphics 620 |
Up to 1150 MHz | 15W |
| i7-8550U | 1.8 GHz | 4.0 GHz | |||||||
| i5-8350U | 1.7 GHz | 3.6 GHz | 6MB | Up to 1100 MHz | |||||
| i5-8250U | 1.6 GHz | 3.4 GHz |
Source: Techreport
