Intel Core i5-13500H vs Intel Core Ultra 5 236V

Core i5-13500H vs Core Ultra 5 236V benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500H performs better than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 236V has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 236V. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 5 236V. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 236V has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 236V.

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 i5-13500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.