Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 226V

Core i5-11600 vs Core Ultra 5 226V comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 beats the Core Ultra 5 226V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 226V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 226V has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 226V. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 226V. Also, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 226V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 226V.

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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.