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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600KF is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1235U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11600KF has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF 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 i5-11600KF has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.