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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. [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: 13.41
Overall Rank:
1695th fastest in multithreading out of 5493 CPUs
1166th fastest in single threading out of 5493 CPUs
384th fastest in out of 1516 Laptop CPUs
Last Price Change: $617.00 USD (2021-05-21)
| Integer Math | 26,899 MOps/Sec |
|---|---|
| Floating Point Math | 16,144 MOps/Sec |
| Find Prime Numbers | 42 Million Primes/Sec |
| Random String Sorting | 13,578 Thousand Strings/Sec |
| Data Encryption | 2,818 MBytes/Sec |
| Data Compression | 108,112 KBytes/Sec |
| Physics | 873 Frames/Sec |
| Extended Instructions | 6,099 Million Matrices/Sec |
| Single Thread | 2,476 MOps/Sec |
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| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 25,334 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,147 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 20,677 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 19,825 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 18,078 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 16,515 | |
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,651 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,142 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 10,610 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 9,408 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 8,274 |
| Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 55.44 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 50.19 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 30.45 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 13.41 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 11.05 | |
| 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 5 5600H | NA | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | NA |
| Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
|---|---|---|
| Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,889 | |
| Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,833 | |
| Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,677 | |
| Intel Core i7-12700H | 3,511 | |
| Intel Core i7-11800H @ 2.30GHz | 3,029 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 5800H | 3,010 | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600H | 2,891 | |
| Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz | 2,620 | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | 2,590 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 2,476 | |
| Intel Core i7-9750H @ 2.60GHz | 2,394 |
| Baseline | CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| BL3125276 - Dec 11 2025 | 7074 | |
| BL3110971 - Dec 06 2025 | 9176 | |
| BL3067054 - Nov 19 2025 | 9476 | |
| BL3055850 - Nov 15 2025 | 9154 | |
| BL3054867 - Nov 15 2025 | 9032 |
| Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
|---|---|---|
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 8,274 | |
| Intel Core i5-8259U @ 2.30GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,844 (-5.2%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8565U @ 1.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 5,975 (-27.8%) | |
| Intel Core i5-8265U @ 1.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 5,811 (-29.8%) | |
| Intel Xeon E3-1535M v6 @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 8,079 (-2.4%) | |
| Intel Core i7-7920HQ @ 3.10GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,340 (-11.3%) | |
| Intel Core i9-8950HK @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 10,375 (+25.4%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8850H @ 2.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 10,080 (+21.8%) | |
| Intel Core i7-8750H @ 2.20GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 9,764 (+18.0%) | |
| Intel Core i7-1065G7 @ 1.30GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 8,140 (-1.6%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 7 3750H vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,987 (-3.5%) | |
| AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,692 (-7.0%) | |
| Intel Xeon E3-1535M v5 @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-8559U | 7,480 (-9.6%) |
| Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
|---|---|---|
| AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,693 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX | 9,633 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 5 235HX | 9,113 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX | 9,044 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX | 7,984 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX | 7,873 | |
| Intel Core Ultra 7 265H | 7,783 | |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9850HX | 7,301 | |
| Intel Core i9-14900HX | 6,950 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max Pro 390 | 6,780 | |
| AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 | 6,719 | |
| Intel Core i9-13980HX | 6,708 | |
| Intel Core i7-8559U @ 2.70GHz | 1,234 |
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