The HP ProBook 650 G8 is equipped with the  Intel Core i7-1165G7 offers eight threads and has a base clock of 2.8 GHz and a boost clock of 4.7 GHz (4.1 GHz for all cores). The Tiger Lake processor has 12 MB of L3 cache and is the fastest U-series CPU from Intel at the moment. The processor supports PCIe 4.0 and Thunderbolt 4, unlike AMD’s U-series CPUs. In the Cinebench R15 stress test, the EliteBook 850 G8 takes last place in our comparison chart. The Core i7-1165G7 in the 850 G8 does not throttle, but it runs slower than in other devices. A sizeable performance-per-MHz boost is one of the many benefits of Tiger Lake generation compared to the older Ice Lake and Comet Lake product families. Core i7-1165G7 is compatible with dual-channel DDR4-3200 or quad-channel LPDDR4x-4267 RAM; Intel recommends using no more than 64 GB, for reference. The processor also supports PCI-Express 4.0 (4 lanes) and is capable of HW-accelerating certain AI workloads. Thunderbolt 4, USB 4 and Wi-Fi 6 support is partially baked into the chip. Four PCI-Express 4.0 lanes allow for read/write rates of up to 7.9 GB/s, provided a suitably fast NVMe SSD is used.