| | | | | | |

Core i7-8550U vs ARM M1


Description
The i7-8550U is based on Kaby Lake architecture while the M1 is based on -.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-8550U gets a score of 127.9 k points while the M1 gets 142.3 k points.

Summarizing, the M1 is 1.1 times faster than the i7-8550U. To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
806ea
f4a
Core
Kaby Lake-R
-
Architecture
Kaby Lake
Base frecuency
1.8 GHz
3.2 GHz
Boost frecuency
4 GHz
3.2 GHz
Socket
BGA1356
-
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/4
TDP
15 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
4x32+4x32 kB
- kB
Cache L2
4x256 kB
- kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
- kB
Date
August 2017
January 1900
Mean monothread perf.
64.2k points
41.44k points
Mean multithread perf.
166.12k points
142.32k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i7-8550U
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
12.93k
9.46k (x0.73)
Test#2 (FP)
20.59k
24.42k (x1.19)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
5.41k
3.76k (x0.69)
Test#1 (Memory)
10.48k
3.8k (x0.36)
TOTAL
49.41k
41.44k (x0.84)

Multithread

i7-8550U

M1
Test#1 (Integers)
41.11k
34.73k (x0.84)
Test#2 (FP)
65.04k
87.52k (x1.35)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
17.53k
13.74k (x0.78)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.22k
6.34k (x1.5)
TOTAL
127.9k
142.32k (x1.11)

Performance/W
i7-8550U
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
2741 points/W