Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Core i5-10500 vs Core i7-1365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1365U beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1365U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-10500 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1365U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.