Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Core i5-11400 vs Core Ultra 5 125H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 125H beats the Core i5-11400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-11400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. According to our data, the Core i5-11400 and Core Ultra 5 125H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11400. The Core Ultra 5 125H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.