Intel Core i5-1235U vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Core i5-1235U vs Core Ultra 5 125U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1235U is faster than the Core Ultra 5 125U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly 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 i5-1235U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.