This week Intel unveiled a brand new range of six-core Coffee Lake pc CPUs, among many other bulletins. Today, we’re putting this sort of CPUs to the take a look at. The Core i7-8750H is certainly one of seven new Coffee Lake H-series processors designed for performance notebooks, workstations and gaming laptops.

The Core i7-8750H is basically the successor to the extensively famous 'Kaby Lake' Core i7-7700HQ that become used in almost each pinnacle-quit gaming pc during the last 12 months or so. I expect the i7-8750H may also be the cross-to chip for gaming laptops and different overall performance cell gadgets, so this evaluation might be beneficial to every person seeking to improve to a brand new Coffee Lake H-collection system.

The key improvement to the i7-8750H is in its core depend: we’re now looking at 6 cores and 12 threads, up from four cores and 8 threads inside the i7-7700HQ even as maintaining to the same 45W TDP. To match these extra cores underneath the identical energy envelope, Intel has long past with the same approach they used with 'Kaby Lake Refresh' U-collection CPUs: the bottom clock velocity has been reduced from 2.8 GHz within the 7700HQ, to just 2.2 GHz with the 8750H.

While the bottom clock has been reduced, Intel is pushing single-core overall performance better with these new 8th gen processors. The 8750H hits a maximum of four.1 GHz on a single middle, up from 3.8 GHz on the 7700HQ. It’s additionally capable of this identical 4.1 GHz clock speed on cores, together with four.0 GHz on up to 4 cores, and three.nine GHz on up to six cores. That’s a pretty massive jump in clock speed considering the 7700HQ topped out at 3.4 GHz in all middle workloads.

You’ll also see 9MB of L3 cache within the 8750H, manufactured the usage of Intel’s 14nm++ system, similar to desktop Coffee Lake components.

Joining the i7-8750H in the line-up is some other hexa-middle Core i7, the i7-8850H, which functions extended base and improve clock speeds. The Core i5 line with the 8400H and 8300H continue to be four-core, eight-thread parts, even as at the top we've the new unlocked Core i9-8950HK.

The use of the Core i9 branding right here is thrilling, as we’ve formerly seen that used with Intel’s 10+ center HEDT Skylake-X CPUs. However, the i9-8950HK is just a 6 middle, 12 thread CPU like the other Coffee Lake H-collection components but going for walks at higher clocks than the 8850H and an increased 12MB L3 cache. It’s additionally completely overclockable, not like the relaxation of the lineup.

The Coffee Lake H-collection is rounded out with two Xeon chips for mobile workstations. Those wanting to shop for a gaming laptop gained’t see those chips inner their gadget but they are technically a part of the new Coffee Lake line-up and they may be incredible options for top class productivity-oriented gadgets. Hopefully we’ll be able to get our arms on devices with the full range of Coffee Lake-H CPUs inside in the following few months, however for now we’re checking out the Core i7-8750H.

Our test machine is the new Gigabyte Aero 15, which we’ll be reviewing very quickly. Aside from the 8750H, this pc additionally packs an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q GPU, 16GB of DDR4-2666 reminiscence, a 512GB PCIe SSD, and a 1080p 144Hz display.

A brief observe before we get to the benchmarks. Testing computer hardware may be a bit intricate, specifically apples-to-apples, due to the fact we can’t just switch out components just like the CPU and GPU to do away with bottlenecks and make structures equal wherein important. But during the benchmarks in advance, we're going to be focusing at the closest feasible comparisons we will make.

As the Aero 15 handiest has a GTX 1070 Max-Q, in some GPU and gaming tests we'll be GPU-restricted. However this does present the maximum actual-world results because the sizable majority of laptops to apply this CPU could have a discrete GPU no faster than a GTX 1070. Yeah, you may get faster GPUs like the GTX 1080 in laptops, but they’re costly and generally now not the most famous alternatives.

I did make one hardware trade to the Aero 15 for this CPU overview, and that become to switch the reminiscence configuration from unmarried- to dual-channel. This pc ships with a single 16GB stick internal, but as maximum other laptops in our charts use twin-channel memory, I swapped the single 16GB stick for 2 8GB sticks at the equal speeds. On to the test outcomes...