While it is essentially a derivative of the previous CPU, there’s a whole lot more to the 8th-gen Core i7 than you think ... Only the Dragon logo might give away its gaming chops.

Like Cinebench, it focuses on the CPU. We again see the 8th-gen quad-core Core i7-8550U easily blowing away the older 7th-gen dual-core and hanging with the much hotter 45-watt quad-cores.

Read now The chip is part of Intel's K-series 8th Gen Core chips, which are unlocked for overclocking and, thanks to Intel's Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, the Core i7-8700K can reach a frequency of ...

The greatest gains are at the four-core mark. Here, the Core i7-7700HQ has already fallen to the 3.4GHz clock it'll hold for the remainder of its test. The default base clock on the 7700HQ is 2 ...

Instead, they rely on tweaked seventh-generation (Kaby Lake) technology. But the upcoming Core i7-8750H and whatever else Intel has up its laptop sleeve will undoubtedly be true eighth-generation ...

But it's not something you'd upgrade to from an 8th-gen Core i7 and you really shouldn't believe it's faster just based on the spec sheet. At least with the way OEMs implement these processors ...

They include the Core i7-8665U and Core i5-8365U ... handle multiple wireless devices simultaneously. Some laptops with 8th gen Core vPro processors will also feature Intel's recently announced ...

Along with the new Core i9 processor, Intel is also announcing new 9th Gen Core i5 and Core i7 models ... that it introduced last year with its 8th Gen Coffee Lake chips, with Intel continuing ...