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 | Cinebench 20 (M) | Performance Difference | In laptops starting at... | Price Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 124. | Intel Core i7-7560U | 738 | 0% | $1150.00 |  196% |
| 125. | Intel Pentium Silver N6000 | 774 | 0% | $389.00 |  22% |
| 126. | Intel Core i7-7500U | 735 | 0% | $500.00 |  4% |
| 127. | Intel Core i5-6200U | 732 |  1% | $479.00 | 27% |
| 128. | AMD Ryzen 3 3200U | 774 |  6% | $378.00 |  58% |
| 129. | Intel Core i7-7600U | 686 | - | $889.95 | - |
We’ve tested Intel Core i7-7500U on…
| # | Laptop model | Cinebench R23 | Cinebench R20 | Adobe Photoshop | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Dell Inspiron 15 5567 | - | - | 17.61 | $979.00 |
| 2. | Acer Swift 5 | - | - | 17.88 | $1499.11 |
| 3. | Dell XPS 13 (9360, Kaby Lake) | - | - | 17.46 | $1799.33 |
| 4. | Lenovo V310 (15") | - | - | 17.75 | Check Price |
| 5. | Acer TravelMate P648-M | - | - | 17.50 | Check Price |