Intel Core i5-4300U vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i5-4300U vs Core Ultra 7 155U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 155U beats the Core i5-4300U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-4300U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4300U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 155U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-4300U. The Core Ultra 7 155U 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 i5-4300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.