Intel Core i5-14500 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235

Core i5-14500 vs Core Ultra 5 235 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 235 beats the Core i5-14500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-14500 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 235 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-14500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 235 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-14500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.