Intel Core i3-12100 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i3-12100 vs Core Ultra 7 155U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100 is faster than the Core Ultra 7 155U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 155U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i3-12100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-12100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i3-12100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.