Intel Core i5-10600K vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Core i5-10600K vs Core Ultra 5 135U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Core i5-10600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. 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 i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.