Intel Core i5-11320H vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Core i5-11320H vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1255U beats the Core i5-11320H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11320H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i5-11320H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11320H. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Core i5-11320H 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 i5-11320H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.