Intel Core i3-10105 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i3-10105 vs Core i5-1235U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10105 beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i3-10105 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-10105. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-10105 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i3-10105 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i3-10105 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.