The Core i7-7500U is part of the latest Intel Kaby Lake generation of CPUs built upon 14nm manufacturing process – or 14nm+ as the company markets – and should offer marginal performance gains over the Skylake generation while improving overall power efficiency. It’s a direct successor to the Core i7-6500U (Skylake) and Core i7-5500 (Broadwell) but opposed to previous architecture refreshes, the Kaby Lake Core i7-7500U is bringing much higher clock rates. Now the chip is clocked at 2.7 – 3.5 GHz (compared to the 2.5 – 3.1 GHz on the Skylake Core i7-6500U) and still adopting the 2/4 core/thread count using the HyperThreading technology with a maximum 4MB cache.
However, the Core i7-7500U’s TDP is still rated at 15W including the iGPU and dual-channel memory controller that supports DDR4-2133, LPDDR3-1866 and DDR3L-1600. And as far as the iGPU is concerned, it integrates a slightly improved Intel HD Graphics 620 clocked at 300 – 1050 MHz, which is slightly higher than the iGPU on the Core i5-7200U (300 – 1000 MHz).
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Intel Core i7-7500U vs competitors:
| # | CPU | Cores/ Threads |
Base clock | Turbo clock | Performance score |
In laptops starting at... |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97. | AMD Ryzen 3 3250U | 2 / 4 | 2.60 GHz | 3.50 GHz | - | $342.68 |
| 98. | Intel Core i7-7560U | 2 / 4 | 2.40 GHz | 3.80 GHz | 1.9/10 | $999.99 |
| 99. | Intel Core i7-7500U | 2 / 4 | 2.70 GHz | 3.50 GHz | 1.8/10 | $340.00 |
| 100. | Intel Core i5-6200U | 2 / 4 | 2.30 GHz | 2.80 GHz | 1.5/10 | $499.00 |
| 101. | AMD Ryzen 3 3200U | 2 / 4 | 2.60 GHz | 3.50 GHz | 1.9/10 | $347.94 |
| 102. | Intel Core i3-8130U | 2 / 4 | 2.20 GHz | 3.40 GHz | 1.7/10 | $429.98 |
We’ve tested Intel Core i7-7500U on…
| # | Laptop series | Cinebench 11 | Cinebench 15 | Adobe Photoshop | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Lenovo ideapad 720S | 3.24 | 292.00 | 18.98 | $904.00 |
| 2. | Dell Inspiron 15 5567 | 3.79 | 333.00 | 17.61 | $979.99 |
| 3. | Acer Swift 5 | 3.63 | 320.00 | 17.88 | $1499.11 |
| 4. | Dell XPS 13 (9360, Kaby Lake) | 3.80 | 333.00 | 17.46 | $1799.33 |
| 5. | Acer Swift 3 (SF314-52) | 3.83 | 346.00 | 18.62 | N/A |