Core i7-8750H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-8750H was the default six-core H-class chip of 2018 — the Coffee Lake design that carried that year's gaming laptops and mobile workstations. The catalog matches it to 14 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 47 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i7-8750H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 56.9 places the chip 202nd of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood rewards aging gracefully: the Ryzen 5 5500U (57.2), Core i7-13620H (57.1) and Core i5-13600H (57) just above, the Ryzen 7 7435HS (56.6), Ryzen 5 240 (56.5) and Pentium Gold G7400T (56.2) just below. A six-core design from 2018 trading places with much newer silicon says the catalog score weighs efficiency and platform balance alongside raw throughput — the 8750H no longer sprints, but it still holds its lane.

What the chip brings

Coffee Lake-H is a 6-core, 12-thread design built on a 14 nm process and rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 2.2 GHz base clock and up to 4.1 GHz boost. Memory support runs to 64 GB of DDR4 across two channels with 41 GB/s of bandwidth, and the integrated UHD 630 handles light display duty when no discrete GPU is present. In public benchmarks the chip posts 1,310 single-core and 4,667 multi-core in Geekbench, with a PassMark overall score of 9,750.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games — Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal, God of War, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Metro Exodus, Doom Eternal and Hitman 3 among them. Another 20 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Counter-Strike 2 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and with 2018-era graphics the GPU is usually the first limit.

Laptops that carry it

The 14-model roster is entirely 2018 and almost entirely Dell. Gaming machines dominate: G5 5587 at $459, G3 3579 at $482, G7 7588 at $554, G7 15 7588 at $604, Alienware 17 R5 at $664, Alienware M17 at $736, Alienware m15 at $688 and the OMEN 15-dc0051nr at $554. The XPS pair — XPS 15 9570 at $357 and XPS 9570 at $459 — covers premium mainstream, the Precision 7530 workstation asks $385, and the ThinkPad X1 Extreme brings business credibility at $471. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at 95, a gaming index of 52.5 and a performance index of 52.8 reflect 2018-era discrete graphics, while mobility at 17.5 and portability at 23.5 say these are heavy, thick chassis by modern standards.

Bottom line

The Core i7-8750H is a budget-buy CPU in 2026: an honest mid-table rank, recommended-tier CPU readiness for 47 of 69 tracked games, and a roster of $357-$736 machines that undercuts everything newer by half. It meets the minimum CPU mark on nearly everything else, so the processor rarely disqualifies a listing on its own. The realistic buyer treats it as a capable all-rounder for money that would not buy a newer chassis, checks the GPU and battery in each listing, and does not expect Starfield-class headroom.