Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 256V

Core i5-11600 vs Core Ultra 7 256V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 beats the Core Ultra 7 256V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 256V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 256V has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 256V has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 256V. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 256V. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 256V has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.