Intel Core i5-10505 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i5-10505 vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10505 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1245U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-10505 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10505 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. Also, the Core i5-10505 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1245U outputs less heat than Core i5-10505 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.