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 - Specs Sheet
Intel Core i7-7500U - benchmark tests
Results are from the Cinebench 11 CPU test (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Cinebench 15 CPU test (higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Fritz test (higher the score, the better)
Results are from our Photoshop benchmark test (lower the score, the better)
We’ve tested Intel Core i7-7500U on…
| # | Laptop | Cinebench 11 | Cinebench 15 | Adobe Photoshop | Fritz | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dell XPS 13 (9360, Kaby Lake) | 3.80 | 333.00 | 17.46 | 6891.00 | $1799.44 |
| 2. | HP ProBook 450 G4 | 3.95 | 342.00 | 17.45 | 6946.00 | N/A |
| 3. | Dell Inspiron 15 5567 | 3.79 | 333.00 | 17.61 | 6700.00 | $732.98 |
| 4. | Acer Swift 5 | 3.63 | 320.00 | 17.88 | 6383.00 | $839.01 |
| 5. | Acer Swift 3 (SF314-52) | 3.83 | 346.00 | 18.62 | 6888.00 | N/A |
| 6. | Lenovo ThinkPad 13 (2nd Gen) | 3.81 | 332.00 | 17.51 | 6885.00 | N/A |
| 7. | HP EliteBook 850 G4 | 3.75 | 333.00 | 17.60 | 6870.00 | $1049.56 |
| 8. | ASUS ZenBook UX410UQ | 3.81 | 347.00 | 17.49 | 6888.00 | N/A |
| 9. | Lenovo ideapad 720S | 3.24 | 292.00 | 18.98 | 5555.00 | $946.66 |
| 10. | ASUS ZenBook UX310 | 3.83 | 347.00 | 17.55 | 6801.00 | N/A |
| 11. | ASUS ASUSPRO B9440UA | 3.66 | 326.00 | 17.51 | 6695.00 | N/A |
| 12. | ASUS VivoBook 15 (X510UQ) | 3.91 | 348.00 | 17.38 | 6850.00 | $699.00 |
| 13. | Lenovo ThinkPad L570 | 3.80 | 330.00 | 17.65 | 6873.00 | N/A |
| 14. | Acer TravelMate P648-M | 3.65 | 328.00 | 17.50 | 6730.00 | N/A |
| 15. | Lenovo V310 (15") | 3.69 | 326.00 | 17.75 | 6777.00 | N/A |
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