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

Core i5-10600KF vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10600KF performs better than the Core i7-1255U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1255U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-10600KF has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Also, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i5-10600KF 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 i5-10600KF. 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 i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.