Intel Core i5-1240P vs Intel Core Ultra 9 288V

Core i5-1240P vs Core Ultra 9 288V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1240P beats the Core Ultra 9 288V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 288V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core Ultra 9 288V has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 288V. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 9 288V has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Also, the Core Ultra 9 288V has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 288V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-1240P. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-1240P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.