Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Core i5-11600 vs Core Ultra 5 236V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 beats the Core Ultra 5 236V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 236V has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V. Also, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 236V 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 236V.

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.