Intel Core i5-1235U vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i5-1235U vs Core i5-13500H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500H performs better than the Core i5-1235U. 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 i5-13500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-1235U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Also, the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1235U. The Core i5-13500H also has significantly 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.