Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-1245U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1245U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. Also, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1245U outputs less heat than Core i5-11500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.