Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Core i5-11600 vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-11600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.