Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Core i5-11500 vs Core Ultra 5 135U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11500 performs better than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 135U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 135U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-11500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Also, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.