Intel Core i5-1235U vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-1235U vs Core i3-13100 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-13100 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-13100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has significantly 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 i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.