Intel Core i5-1235U vs Intel Core i3-1315U

Core i5-1235U vs Core i3-1315U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1235U beats the Core i3-1315U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i3-1315U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1315U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1315U. Despite this, the Core i3-1315U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i3-1315U. The Core i5-1235U also has slightly more 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.