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Is the Intel Core i7-8557U @ 1.70GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. But this CPU contains 4 Cores and 8 Threads. Paired with a good videocard, is this CPU Good for Gaming? This CPU should be able to play most games, but may be a bottleneck on newer releases. [More ...]
Description: Intel Iris Plus Graphics 645
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1528
Clockspeed: 1.7 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.5 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 15 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 4 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 4 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory Support: Max. Memory Size: 32 GB (DDR4-2400, LPDDR3-2133)
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8557U CPU @ 1.70GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q4 2019
CPUmark/$Price: 17.23
Overall Rank:
1593rd fastest in multithreading out of 5094 CPUs
1114th fastest in single threading out of 5094 CPUs
384th fastest in out of 1478 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $431.00 USD (2019-07-01)
| Integer Math | 26,067 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 13,734 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 37 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 11,505 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,740 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 101,498 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 812 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 4,455 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,355 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,129 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,879 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,122 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,305 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,787 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,650 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,694 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,723 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,603 | |
| Intel Core i7-8557U @ 1.70GHz | 7,428 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.94 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 31.08 | |
| Intel Core i7-8557U @ 1.70GHz | 17.23 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.17 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | NA | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,903 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,051 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,031 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,922 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,655 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,637 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,602 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,411 | |
| Intel Core i7-8557U @ 1.70GHz | 2,355 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5090464 - Mar 28 2025 | 8502 | |
| BL5082373 - Dec 25 2024 | 8407 | |
| BL5073732 - Sep 20 2024 | 5018 | |
| BL5070669 - Aug 12 2024 | 6633 | |
| BL5070491 - Aug 10 2024 | 8794 |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,728 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265 | 8,281 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 8,195 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 8,124 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 7,866 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 7,221 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,066 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 7,040 | |
| Intel Core 7 250H | 6,905 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,806 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,797 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,785 | |
| Intel Core i7-8557U @ 1.70GHz | 1,266 |
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