Intel Core i5-8600K vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Core i5-8600K vs Core Ultra 7 155U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 155U is faster than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-8600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Core Ultra 7 155U also has slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.