Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Core i5-10600 vs Core i7-1255U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600 beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-10600 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Also, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i5-10600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-1255U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.