Intel Core i5-11400H vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i5-11400H vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400H beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i5-11400H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-11400H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. 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 i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.