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Is the Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz 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 655
Class: Laptop
Socket: FCBGA1528
Clockspeed: 2.7 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.5 GHz
Cores: 4 Threads: 8
Typical TDP: 28 W
TDP Down: 20 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) i7-8559U CPU @ 2.70GHz, Intel Core i7-8559U CPU @ 2.70GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q3 2018
CPUmark/$Price: 13.44
Overall Rank:
1518th fastest in multithreading out of 5155 CPUs
1008th fastest in single threading out of 5155 CPUs
364th fastest in out of 1491 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $617.00 USD (2021-05-21)
| Integer Math | 26,961 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 16,125 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 42 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 13,624 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,829 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 108,777 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 877 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,079 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,493 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,152 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,832 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 20,063 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,245 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,728 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,652 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 11,649 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,694 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,539 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 8,295 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.79 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.87 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 13.44 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.14 | |
| 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 | 3,900 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,837 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,048 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,026 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,914 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,645 | |
| Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,631 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,599 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 2,493 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,406 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL5096036 - Jun 07 2025 | 8584 | |
| BL2668929 - Jun 02 2025 | 7007 | |
| BL2657606 - May 28 2025 | 4698 | |
| BL2655908 - May 27 2025 | 7776 | |
| BL2653658 - May 26 2025 | 7684 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 8,295 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,842 (-5.5%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8565U @ 1.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 5,995 (-27.7%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8265U @ 1.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 5,853 (-29.4%) | |
| Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 8,068 (-2.7%) | |
| Intel Core i7-7920HQ @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,296 (-12.0%) | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 10,384 (+25.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8850H @ 2.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 10,161 (+22.5%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8750H @ 2.20GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 9,826 (+18.5%) | |
| Intel Core i7-1065G7 @ 1.30GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 8,195 (-1.2%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3750H vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 8,044 (-3.0%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,740 (-6.7%) | |
| Intel Xeon E3-1535M v5 @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,479 (-9.8%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,731 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 8,901 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265 | 8,121 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 7,982 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,723 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 7,053 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 7,027 | |
| Intel Core 7 250H | 6,905 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 6,850 | |
| Intel Core i9-13900HX | 6,782 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,763 | |
| Intel Core i9-13950HX | 6,762 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 1,360 |
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