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Intel Core i7-8709G: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

Intel started Intel Core i7-8709G sales 1 February 2018. This is Kaby Lake G architecture notebook processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 4 cores and 8 threads, and is based on 14 nm manufacturing technology, with a maximum frequency of 4100 MHz and a locked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is BGA2270 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt and a maximum temperature of 72 °C. It supports DDR4-2400 memory.

It provides poor benchmark performance at 8.93 percent of a leader's which is AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX.

General info

Of Core i7-8709G processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture and sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating

491

Value for money (0-100)

0.24

Type

Laptop

Series

Intel Core i7

Architecture codename

Kaby Lake G

Release date

1 February 2018

Price now

$1394

of 14999 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technical specs

Core i7-8709G's quantitative parameters such as cores and threads number, clocks, manufacturing process, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of Core i7-8709G's performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Number of cores

Number of threads

Base frequency

3.1 GHz

of 4.7 (FX-9590)

Maximum frequency

4.1 GHz

of 5.3 (Core i9-10900KF)

L1 cache

64K (per core)

of 896 (Atom C3950)

L2 cache

256K (per core)

of 12288 (Core 2 Quad Q9550)

L3 cache

8 MB (shared)

of 32 (Ryzen Threadripper 1998)

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

of 5 (Apple M1)

Maximum core temperature

100 °C

of 110 (Atom x7-E3950)

Maximum case temperature (TCase)

72 °C

of 105 (Core i7-5557U)

64 bit support

Compatibility

Information on Core i7-8709G compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one.

Max number of CPUs in a configuration

of 8 (Opteron 842)

Socket

BGA2270

Power consumption (TDP)

65 Watt

of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282)

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Core i7-8709G. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions

Intel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX2

AES-NI

AVX

vPro

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)

Speed Shift

My WiFi

Turbo Boost

2.0

Hyper-Threading

Idle States

Thermal Monitoring

Flex Memory Access

Smart Response

Security technologies

Core i7-8709G technologies aimed at raising security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT

EDB

Secure Key

MPX

Identity Protection

SGX

Yes with Intel® ME

OS Guard

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Core i7-8709G are enumerated here.

AMD-V

VT-d

VT-x

EPT

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Core i7-8709G.

Supported memory types

DDR4-2400

of 4266 (Ryzen 9 4900H)

Maximum memory size

64 GB

of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3)

Max memory channels

of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Maximum memory bandwidth

37.5 GB/s

of 281.6 (Xeon Platinum 9221)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of GPU integrated into Core i7-8709G.

Integrated graphics

Intel HD Graphics 630

Max video memory

64 GB

Quick Sync

Clear Video

Clear Video HD

Graphics max frequency

1.1 GHz

InTru 3D

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Core i7-8709G's integrated GPU.

Number of displays supported

DVI

Graphics image quality

Maximum display resolutions supported by Core i7-8709G's integrated GPU, including resolutions over different interfaces.

4K resolution support

Max resolution over HDMI 1.4

4096 x 2160 @30Hz

Max resolution over eDP

4096 x 2160 @60Hz

Max resolution over DisplayPort

4096 x 2160 @60Hz

Graphics API support

APIs supported by Core i7-8709G's integrated GPU, sometimes API versions are included.

DirectX

OpenGL

4.4

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of Core i7-8709G's supported peripherals.

PCIe revision

3.0

Max number of PCIe lanes

of 128 (EPYC 7551P)

Benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmarks performance of Core i7-8709G. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.

Overall benchmark performance

8.93

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

158

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

791

Passmark

7921

Game benchmarks

Let's see how good Core i7-8709G is for gaming compared with game system requirements. Remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect real performance inaccurately.

Relative perfomance

Overall Core i7-8709G performance compared to nearest competitors. All CPU types participate.

100 %

Core i7-8709G

AMD equivalent

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Core i7-8709G from AMD is Ryzen 5 3580U, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our rating.